Charge (fanfare)

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"Charge" is a short fanfare frequently played at sporting events.

[edit] History

"Charge" was written by Tommy Walker while a junior at the University of Southern California in the fall of 1946. The fanfare consists of six notes (roughly transliterated, "Da da da DUT da DUH!") followed by which rooters shout, "Charge!" Occasionally, the fanfare is repeated one or more times in the same key or in successively higher keys, or is preceded by a lead-in vamp.

In 1958 the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and in the spring of 1959 the Dodgers put on sale, at $1.50 apiece, 20,000 toy trumpets capable of playing the six notes of the "Charge" fanfare. The fanfare was heard in NBC broadcasts of games 3, 4 and 5 of the 1959 World Series between the Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox.