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What's this sack of pennies for?

5 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 00:12:24 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You bet! You bet!

- He took a long look at my valves and shining mouth...

- And went back home and rose the next morning and made the rounds of Rampart and Franklin Streets...

- My face is brown and my mule is black, I sell my coal two bits a sack. Coal m'am?

- He stacked the pennies profit from his coal deals, and when the year ended, he dropped a sack of coins on the counter of a Basin Street music dealer.

- What's this sack of pennies for?

- I priced the trumpet in the window, remember? you said seventy dollars could get it.

- Now I do remember sayin' something like that, I do.

- I got the seventy here.

- But when I said that... well, that was near a year ago. Prices are high, you know, you'd need ninety.

- I tell you what, you just let me keep this here seventy on account it's safer in my hands than probably where you live, ain't it?

- Well, I guess it might be.

- Sure, sure. Now you run 'long and peddle some more coal. Come back when you got the other twenty.

[...]

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The kid left her and went back to me, the trumpet, and blew until his cheeks ached and his lips cracked and split, but he kept on.
You're the one who can make the trumpet talk... and tell the truth.
All right now, girl, stand aside. Least a woman can do is to keep out of the way of those who're busy. Let the moving men by.
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.
Some of these kids... are just like me. They hear the sound of a trumpet - they never forget 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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