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- Then there's the horn. You noticed this morning we had a trumpet boy playing reveille...
- I noticed.

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 00:20:41 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- There may be a place in the band for you.

- Thank you.

- I'll start you out on the tambourines... Then if you do well... perhaps we can teach you how to handle the drums...

- Then there's the horn. You noticed this morning we had a trumpet boy playing reveille...

- I noticed.

- Well... the regular boy's being discharged. Goin' home. I'd like to start training someone new.

- If you can make heads or tails out of this horn by tomorrow morning, come down to class and get started.

- Yes, I think you'll like it here.

- The director put me, the trumpet, in the kid's hand.

- And he blew and learned the notes in the reform school classroom until his term was nearly up.

[...]

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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