This article is about the Vice Admiral of the United States Navy. For the military correspondent to the New York Times, see William M. Beecher.
William Gordon Beecher, Jr. (January 19, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland – December 7, 1973) was an American composer, writer and vice admiral. Many of his musical arrangements were done in cooperation with Johnny Noble.
Gordon Beecher
Birth name
William Gordon Beecher Jr.
Born
(1904-01-19)January 19, 1904 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Director, USNA Musical Clubs, 1933-1935 Commanding officer USS Pruitt(DM-22), then a minesweeper, 31 May 1940 through 2 December 1941 Commander of the Middle East Force in 1954 Chief of Naval Information in 1954-1955
Between 1933 and 1935, Beecher directed the USNA Musical Clubs and joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1944. He composed around 700 songs. Known compositions, many of which he published under the pseudonym "Gordon Beecher", are "A Song of Old Hawaii", "Sing an American Song", "Counting On You", "All Pau Now", "Nimitz, Halsey and Me", "Just a Happy Kama'aina" and "The Ramparts We Watch". He served as technical advisor for the movie Shipmates Forever produced by Warner Bros.[1]
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