The Charge fanfare dates to the 1940s, when Tommy Walker wrote the six-note call for University of Southern California football games. Ballpark organists adopted it in the 1950s, most famously at Los Angeles Dodgers games, and crowds learned to shout Charge at the end. It spread from baseball to football, basketball and hockey, becoming a universal cue for a rally. Online it is paired with crowd cheering and used like a short victory fanfare for home runs, comebacks and mock heroic moments in edits and memes.
About this sound
The classic ballpark organ Charge fanfare played at baseball games to hype the crowd before a homerun, now used for sports edits and big moment reveals.
This is the short ballpark organ version of Charge, the six-note fanfare heard in stadiums across America. Bright, brassy organ tones climb quickly in a familiar da-da-da-da-da-daa pattern that every baseball fan recognises instantly, even without the crowd shouting the final word. At just under three seconds it lands as pure anticipation, turning an ordinary play into a rally moment. The sound feels nostalgic, loud and playful, and it instantly signals that something big is about to happen on the field or on screen.
