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

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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 00:14:11 in the radio play.

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- Who do you think's lyin' officer?

- Now boy... get back to your own neighborhood where you belong. If I catch you roamin' out of it again, it'll be hard on you.

- Loosen that trumpet and get goin'.

- The kid's grip loosened on my shiny handle, and he left me in the dealer's hands.

- He went back to Rampart Street where he forced me out of' his mind...

- 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...

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Some of these kids... are just like me. They hear the sound of a trumpet - they never forget it.

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You're the one who can make the trumpet talk... and tell the truth.

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Quotes 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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