Things you might not know. 12 Oct. 1. 1944: What would come to be known as the Columbus Day Riot takes place in New York City, when 35,000 hysterical teenage girls crowd the Paramount Theatre for a chance to see the return of crooner Frank Sinatra. The crowd of teen bobbysoxer girls halt traffic in Times Square, refuse to leave between shows to the extent of fainting from hunger, and ruin several seats in the theater when several urinate there rather than take a chance on going to the bathroom. 2. 1955, The Chrysler Corporation launched high fidelity record players for their 1956 line-up of cars. The unit measured about four inches high and less than a foot wide and mounted under the instrument panel. The seven inch discs spun at 16 2/3 rpm and required almost three times the number of grooves per inch as an LP. The players were discontinued in 1961. 3. 1957: After a harrowing plane flight on the way to tonights gig in Sydney, Australia, during which one of the engines catches fire, Little Richard rejects rock and roll for the first time on stage. He tells tonights crowd, If you want to live for the Lord, you cant take rock n roll, too. God doesnt like it. After his saxophone player, Clifford Burks, doubts his conviction to the conversion, Richard proves it by tossing his four diamond rings into the nearest river. 4. 1956: Massively influential DJ Alan Freeds second film, Dont Knock The Rock , starring Little Richard, Bill Haley, and the Treniers, opens in New York.
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