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I can't give you the chance, but maybe old director Davis over at the reform school can. Two years.

10 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 00:19:53 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Next case! Armstrong!

- Your honor, I really wasn't gonna...

- I know, I know, I've already decided on you.

- Louis Armstrong? You know, I could send you to the road gangs... even at your age.

- But... there's something about what you were tryin to get from the music dealer that... well, makes me hesitate.

- Any kid who wants to learn music that bad ought to be given a chance at it.

- I can't give you the chance, but maybe old director Davis over at the reform school can. Two years.

- Next case! Next case!

- They moved the kid out of the courtroom and into the crowded reform school... and closed the door behind him.

- Director Davis looked over the new charge.

- I understand you've got a yen for music. You'll like it here. Y-es sir.

- I've trained a sort of band here, and sometimes we travel all over New Orleans playing marching music for the parades.

- Yes sir.

[...]

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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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