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And in the evenings after the coal was sold, he carried the instruments for traveling musicians who were coming into New Orleans...

8 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Trumpet Talks (The early life of Louis Armstrong) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:16:20 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I've watched him, and I've listened to him... and I believe he'll grow famous.

- All he'll play is the junk they shout out around the streets. You said yourself it wasn't worth listening to.

- I've changed my mind. Too many people come into New Orleans to hear it... and they get real pleasure from it.

- Maybe there's something in this 'ragtime' music... you and I are too old to feel... but it's in Louis's blood. Let him grow.

- She saved him. And somehow his own dogged drive to find a horn to master the rhythms and the melodies they heard around him pushed him on.

- And in the evenings after the coal was sold, he carried the instruments for traveling musicians who were coming into New Orleans...

- And he would sleep besides the pianos waiting for the player to finish so he could collect his tips.

- And one evening the piano player ended his odd chord... drilling on the keyboards and turned to the kid...

- Say... say, kid. It's closin' time. Thanks for handlin' my suitcase.

- Oh sure, but you said you're gonna pay.

- I know, I said I'd pay, but... Well, if you had kept your eyes open, you could have seen I didn't get a penny all night.

- You didn't show me how to play the piano either.

- I know, I know.

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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