Luyện nghe bài hát Sgt. Pepper In the Gumbo Pot (narration)

Now I remember when I wrote that song. I was being in London
though I'd been
I don't know if there is a street named Rickety Lane in
but it sounded to me at the time
In early days of my songwriting
I was certainly feeling the effects of the british
Which was the music to the mid-60's rise in
culture that had crossed the
Atlantic and worked it's way to
the mouth of the River

The repetoire of the upstairs alliance was filled songs by the
Dave Five. The Kicks,
The Stones, Hermits Hermits, The and
of The Beatles,
We all to look, sound and act British
But the we really ever
get to being an international group
was having a member

Rick Bennett was my in college,
the bass in my band and a life-long friend
He is now Chair of the Toronto school and has
worked in the film and world,
ever since leaving the and school
He also directed Who's the blonde stranger video
Which we filmed in Key
We've stayed in over the years and
I always visit RB when we play Toronto as we did this

When we had finished putting together the in storage
for collection
I sent it to Ricky to check as this stuff happened a long time
ago and sure he came up with a few
bits of treasure that I had forgotten
and that's when I thought it would be cool to have him read start
he lived a major part of it and since then
he's a pretty good living
as an actor, director, and voice-over specialist
on that husky Canadian voice of his
So, without further adieu here's Mr. Rick reading
Sgt. Pepper in the pot
it away Ricky

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, Jimmy's colleague and
the bass in our first band, The Upstairs Alliance
JImmy Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon
a combination and in the summer of 1967,
that was the combination, the were lining up
In the of 1967, Jimmy, myself and Benny
formed a little band The Upstairs Alliance

And on insistence, we auditioned for and got the
gig at a folk called The Bayou Room on Bourbon Street
in New
And I'm thinking, does it get any than that?
We played our folk and pop
adding a few new Beatles ballads as came along
and usually played to good crowds, then in June of '67
the landscape changed

The Beatles released the
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band
That album us away, we had to be part of that
It was time to go
JB in his Martin D acoustic for the electric version
I traded the stand-up Bass for a Jazz Master
And Benny, well she kept her old
as fate would have it, the bar to the Bayou Room
was the Gunga Den, the hottest Rock 'n bar on Bourbon Street
The kinda liked our electric sound
and figured our progression should be with his bar

So he offered us a gig, and for more money as
It was a no-brainer, we we might surprise him
by opening with Sergeant
Now these boys always take surprises well
on the College campus we made
an after hours visit to the costume department
and 'borrowed' some outrageous Sgt, style costumes

Now let it be noted that it was always our intent to
generous gifts
We recruited a drummer and a lead guitar to add to our
eclectic circus band
We stayed up learning the lyrics and chords to Sgt, Pepper
Jimmy carried the load, while and I did the harmonies
We were getting ready to rock the Gunga Den a new
the new electric version of the Upstairs Alliance

On we played our last folk set at the Bayou Room
and with a change of we walked into the Gunga Den
with lights flailing, electric energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Hearts Band ready to go
Top quote the Beatles, it was to be there
it was a thrill

The was a hit
the bar made money and we getting some pretty good press
The alliance became the first Sergeant Peppers
cover band in New
was no going back
Surely we would be discovered here and the road to
start down Bourbon Street

But this is the business, fickle at best
and are a lot of vultures out there
Like Jimmy, New Orleans was one of the great of my life
We didn't make it, but way then we knew
Jimmy was going to it

Because he entertained a plan b and as fate would have it
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