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And rattled up and down Basin Street with his boys until one evening his father looked at his wide shoulders and said...

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 00:15:04 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Gathered his gang of coal sellers together, made a quartet, and sang for nickels along Perdido Street.

- Hid from the police patrols at night and sat inside the cafes 'til the early morning...

- While traveling musicians from the four corners of the Delta convened in the New Orleans bistros, ballrooms, and dance halls and poured out the new music.

(Sidney Bechet 'Wild Man Blues')

- And the kid listened and created sounds of his own from bottles and cans...

- And rattled up and down Basin Street with his boys until one evening his father looked at his wide shoulders and said...

- You've grown as strong as a man, and you're not even nineteen.

- That's what the jokers that try to mes with me say.

- I was thinking, they need a strong man in the turpentine camp... I'd like to have you try it.

- No... no, you won't take him.

- I thought you had left this to me, May.

[...]

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The kid left her and went back to me, the trumpet, and blew until his cheeks ached and his lips cracked and split, but he kept on.
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I believe that once one accepts discrimination against another, he's preparing the way for his own slavery. I intend to remain free.
Listen. They say when a new music's bein' born, you get one kid like this who comes along years ahead of himself. This kid plays tomorrow's music today.
Some of these kids... are just like me. They hear the sound of a trumpet - they never forget it.
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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