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

Now I remember when I wrote that song. I was being in London
I'd never been
I don't know if there is a street named Rickety Lane in
but it sounded good to me at the
In those early of my songwriting
I was certainly feeling the effects of the invasion
Which was the background music to the mid-60's in
counter that had crossed the
Atlantic and even worked way to
the of the Mississippi River

The of the upstairs alliance was filled with 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 an international group
was having a Canadian

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

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

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, colleague roommate and
the bass player in our first band, The Alliance
Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon Street
what a and in the summer of 1967,
that was the combination, the stars lining up
In the Spring of 1967, Jimmy, and Benny
a little band called The Upstairs Alliance

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

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

So he us a gig, and for more money as well
It was a no-brainer, we thought we might him
by with Sergeant Pepper
Now boys didn't always take surprises well
Back on the campus we made
an after hours to the theatre costume department
and 'borrowed' outrageous Sgt, Pepper style costumes

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

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

The was a hit
the bar made money and we were getting some good press
The upstairs alliance became the Sergeant Peppers
band in New Orleans
There was no going
Surely we would be discovered here and the road to
would down Bourbon Street

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

Because he never entertained a plan b and as would have it
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