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Once they take a boy into the turpentine camps... that's all he's good for the rest of his days.

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 00:15:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You've grown as strong as a man, and you're not even nineteen.

- That's what the jokers that try to mes with me say.

- I was thinking, they need a strong man in the turpentine camp... I'd like to have you try it.

- No... no, you won't take him.

- I thought you had left this to me, May.

- Once they take a boy into the turpentine camps... that's all he's good for the rest of his days.

- What else is he going to do?

- There's his music.

- He can't play a note!

- He's got the notes inside him.

- I've watched him, and I've listened to him... and I believe he'll grow famous.

- All he'll play is the junk they shout out around the streets. You said yourself it wasn't worth listening to.

- I've changed my mind. Too many people come into New Orleans to hear it... and they get real pleasure from it.

[...]

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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