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 never
I don't know if is a street named Rickety Lane in London
but it sounded to me at the time
In early days of my songwriting
I was certainly feeling the effects of the invasion
Which was the background to the mid-60's rise in
culture that had crossed the
Atlantic and even worked way to
the mouth of the Mississippi

The repetoire of the upstairs alliance was filled songs by the
Dave Five. The Kicks,
The Stones, Hermits, The Animals and
of The Beatles,
We all wanted to look, and act British
But the closest we ever
could get to being an group
was a Canadian member

Rick was my roommate in college,
the bass player in my and a life-long friend
He is now Chair of the film school and has
in the film and commercial world,
ever since leaving the and school
He also directed the: Who's the blonde video
we filmed in Key West
We've stayed in touch the years and
I always visit RB we play Toronto as we did this summer

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

Hi I'm Bennett, Jimmy's colleague roommate and
the player in our first band, The Upstairs Alliance
JImmy Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon
what a and in the summer of 1967,
that was the combination, the stars were up
In the Spring of 1967, Jimmy, myself and
formed a little band called The Upstairs

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

The released the album
Sergeant Lonely Hearts Club Band
That album blew us away, we had to be of that
It was to go electric
JB traded in his Martin D acoustic for the version
I traded the Bass for a Fender Jazz Master
And Benny, well she her old tambourine
as fate have it, the bar next to the Bayou Room
was the Den, the hottest Rock 'n Roll bar on Bourbon Street
The owner kinda our electric sound
and figured our progression should be with his bar

So he offered us a gig, and for more as well
It was a no-brainer, we thought we surprise him
by opening with Pepper
Now these didn't always take surprises well
Back on the College campus we
an after hours visit to the theatre costume
and 'borrowed' outrageous Sgt, Pepper style costumes

Now let it be noted that it was our intent to return
those gifts
We a drummer and a lead guitar player to add to our
eclectic electric circus
We stayed up learning the lyrics and chords to Sgt, Pepper
Jimmy carried the load, while Bennie and I did the
We were getting to rock the Gunga Den a new audience
With the new electric version of the Alliance

On we played our last folk set at the Bayou Room
and a change of wardrobe we walked into the Gunga Den
with strobe lights flailing, energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Lonely 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 were getting some pretty press
The upstairs alliance the first Sergeant Peppers
band in New Orleans
There was no back
Surely we would be discovered and the road to success
start down Bourbon Street

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

Because he never entertained a plan b and as fate have it
is the wino who had something to say