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I know, I said I'd pay, but... Well, if you had kept your eyes open, you could have seen I didn't get a penny all night.

9 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 00:17:37 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- She saved him. And somehow his own dogged drive to find a horn to master the rhythms and the melodies they heard around him pushed him on.

- And in the evenings after the coal was sold, he carried the instruments for traveling musicians who were coming into New Orleans...

- And he would sleep besides the pianos waiting for the player to finish so he could collect his tips.

- And one evening the piano player ended his odd chord... drilling on the keyboards and turned to the kid...

- Say... say, kid. It's closin' time. Thanks for handlin' my suitcase.

- Oh sure, but you said you're gonna pay.

- I know, I said I'd pay, but... Well, if you had kept your eyes open, you could have seen I didn't get a penny all night.

- You didn't show me how to play the piano either.

- I know, I know.

- I tell you what. You look like the kind who can handle himself.

- I do all right. I thought so.

- Look, I ain't got no dough, but I got something that gets dough. Here... put it in your pocket.

- A gun? A thirty-eight.

- Why shout out loud?

- I ain't got much use for this.

- Oh... you'll find some.

- Believe me, you'll make money quicker with it... than with all the music I can teach you. Think hard.

[...]

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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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