I was reading about The Godfather the other day and apparently Marlon Brando patterned some of his speech patterns from Frank Costello during the Kefauver hearings. I checked out some youtube video of Frank and I was suprised by the way he sounded. He had a very interesting voice (raspy and almost high pitched at times). It made me think:

does anyone have any audio or tape of some old time prohibition gangsters like Torrio, Luciano, Anastasia, Lepke, Shapiro, Capone etc.?

I figure its a longshot and I've never heard much audio regarding gangsters from that era but I'm interested to hear any thats out there, particularly obscure stuff. A lot of you guys have great source material (e.g. Strax's photograph post) from what I've seen so I figure its worth a shot.

Thanks.