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Come on along... there's a guy around here you gotta know...

5 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 00:25:57 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- The kid had me at his lips, and with his lungs grown strong by hawking coal and his dreams clear, bold and rich...

- He pushed me through notes and chords I'd never hit before and captured the new music inside his horn.

- And when he had shot the last note high above high C, the band stopped and the patrons stood up and were staring at the raggedy kid from the reform school.

- Johnson nudged him.

- I don't know where you got all that power, but if you'll stick around, I'll teach you what I know.

- Come on along... there's a guy around here you gotta know...

- Bunk took the kid across the street and broke into the Blind Mole Cafe, where King Oliver, the man who first made New Orleans trumpets scream like panthers, was going through his rehearsals.

- When the King saw what Bunk had brought in, he frowned.

- You still pickin' up stray cats?

- Listen, King... this kid blows like mad. King... you got to listen to him.

- In less'n a month everybody in New Orleans'll forget all about you an' me.

[...]

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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