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It was a tremendous roar. Five thousand kids, stamping, yelling, screaming, applauding. I was scared stiff. They also crowded the back stage door after the show shrieking for his autograph, and spilled over into Times Square, snarling traffic.

Sinatra by then had become a recording sensation. He was so popular at the Paramount, that his engagement there was extended to February Valentino has American womanhood made such unabashed public love to an entertainer.

Between and early he had 23 top ten singles on the new Billboard music chart. And all through those years, back at Paramount and other venues, the kids continued screaming and swooning for Sinatra. So what was it with Sinatra? Something else was going on, the critics surmised.

Newsweek magazine then viewed the Bobby-soxer phenomenon as a kind of madness; a mass sexual delirium. Some even called the girls immoral or juvenile delinquents. But most simply saw them as young girls letting their emotions fly. Still, Sinatra fan clubs were cropping up all over America, and not just among teenagers; 40 year-old women were enlisting too.

In early August , Sinatra played in New York city at City College with the New York Philharmonic, where a contingent of his fans showed up adding their boisterous approval. Sinatra also appeared elsewhere across the country that year on a national tour, including Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he appeared in December with Philadelphia band leader, Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters. Part of the problem had to do with fans who refused to leave the theater after having seen one complete show.

Repeat performances were then being scheduled in tight rotation, running nearly all day and into the night. Some were known to sit through dozens of performances to the point of becoming faint, remaining in their seats for six or eight hours without food and refusing to leave until forcibly removed by attendants.

Sinatra, meanwhile, was becoming a rich young man. His adoring teen audience would prove to be something of a guaranteed market in the years ahead; an audience that would literally grow up with him, being roughly of the same age. They would follow his music and career as he aged, thus assuring Sinatra and his sponsors a continuing future audience. Sinatra also campaigned for Roosevelt in November Georgia shipwreck's last giant chunk removed from water.

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