NP but Little Richard : The Sputnik across the sky shook me up. it was a Revelation.

[Mark Kohut]

“That night Russia sent off that very first Sputnik,” he told Mr. White,
referring to the first satellite sent into space. “It looked as though the
big ball of fire came directly over the stadium about two or three hundred
feet above our heads. It shook my mind. It really shook my mind. I got up
from the piano and said, ‘This is it. I am through. I am leaving show
business to go back to God

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