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

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 00:04:02 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I thought I heard 'him' out there.

- You mean that 'kid'?

- Yeah.

- Diamond Stone says keep that 'kid' away from the cafe.

- Says a kid hanging around a cafe like him draws cops like flies to honey.

- If you wanna keep your job as trumpet man in the trio, make that 'kid' stop following you around.

- He's not after me.

- Who's he after then?

- This lil'o' trumpet.

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

- You make this one forget it for your own good.

- All right, all right.

- OK. Now here's where you come in...

- He's out there.

- Wait... don't blow. Put the trumpet down till he goes by.

- He took me down from his lips and laid me on the table,

- And the drummer stopped his beat while outside in tenement alley an old horse drew an old wagon full of coal...

[...]

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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