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But the angel Gabriel touched his lips to my mouth and called home the quick and the dead.

7 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 00:00:37 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I got a good notion to divorce Timothy Rodgers and just be married to Brooklynn Dodgers.

- Now go your way, Babe, and if anybody asks who is Sammy the Whammy, just tell 'em the same story that I just told to you.

- And the bride went off like one that's been stunned and in the neon jungle she felt forlorn. But a most hep and a wiser Babe she rose the morrow morn!

(Louis Armstrong trumpet solo)

- That trumpet? That's me he's blowing. I'm Trumpet. Look at me: curved brass cylinder with a cup-shaped mouth. Three valves and a thousand tones.

- But the angel Gabriel touched his lips to my mouth and called home the quick and the dead.

- The Romans blew me when the earth was their empire.

- I've blown taps for the Caesars and the Napoleons.

- My voice has been heard in high and low places.

- But... until the kid blew me, I never knew what scales I could climb.

- He gave me tones I never knew were my own. He gave me a voice that was free and strong, so that his own could be free and strong.

[...]

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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