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When the piano rolls and the drum beats that way...

4 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 00:08:32 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You're not a child, but you're still my boy. Can't you tell me where you goin'?

- To Diamond Stone's Cafe.

- Why there... why always there?

- 'Cause I can sit in the back there and hear them guys play music that is music.

- When I hear it, it's just like they're talkin' to me, ma.

- When ol' Buddy Bolden 'n' Bunk Johnson and King Oliver cut loose on the trumpet.

- When the piano rolls and the drum beats that way...

- Nothin' but rowdies and drunkards in them cafes...!

- Some folks don't mind.

- Folks uptown says it's nothin' but 'gutter' music!

- Ain't I from the gutter?

- Don't wait up for me, ma.

- The boy stumbled down the rickety stairs and picked his way past the rubbish cans in the dark, headed towards the streets with the crowded cafes...

- Ducked his head inside every tavern where he heard a musician blowing blues through my valves,

[...]

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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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