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

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 00:26:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- You crazy!

- Listen. They say when a new music's bein' born, you get one kid like this who comes along years ahead of himself. This kid plays tomorrow's music today.

- You crazy!

- You listen.

- Say... Louis. Get up on bandstand with Oliver, will you?

- King Oliver?

- Yeah... the great 'King.'

[...]

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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