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Those who picked up the trumpet had to give body and soul to blowin' out the new music that stung the heart of those who heard it like a shot of adrenaline.

10 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 00:05:43 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- OK. I ain't gonna blow.

- Poor kid, too bad!

- Too bad 'nothin.' Let him grow into long pants first before he grabs at a trumpet.

- A guy who blows a trumpet like you do's got to have steel lips and iron lungs. He's got to be a man. No kids. He's got to be a man.

- Yes, in New Orleans in the hot years when ragtime was being beat and molded into a new music...

- Those who picked up the trumpet had to give body and soul to blowin' out the new music that stung the heart of those who heard it like a shot of adrenaline.

- The kid who sold coal came to a dead-end street, hitched his wagon to a lamppost, and walked up two rickety flights of tenement stairs.

- Yes? Who?

- Me, dad. Just me.

- It's about time.

- How much coal did you sell?

- Well... I only got to go around the district twice.

- You could have gone around four, five times if you hadn't stopped in that cafe...

- I didn't stop...

- Don't you think I know you and the gang of brats you run round with sneak in every cafe on Rampart Street,

[...]

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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