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

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

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

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

we had finished putting together the tracks in storage
for collection
I sent it to Ricky to fact check as stuff happened a long time
ago and sure enough he came up a few
bits of treasure that I had forgotten
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 good
as an actor, director, producer and specialist
relying on that husky Canadian of his
So, without further adieu here's Mr. Rick Bennett
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 were lining up
In the Spring of 1967, Jimmy, myself and
formed a little band called The Alliance

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

The released the album
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Club Band
That blew us away, we had to be part of that
It was to go electric
JB traded in his D acoustic for the electric version
I traded the stand-up Bass for a Fender Jazz
And Benny, well she her old tambourine
as would 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 opening with Sergeant
Now these boys didn't always take well
Back on the College campus we
an after hours to the theatre costume department
and 'borrowed' outrageous Sgt, Pepper style costumes

Now let it be that it was always our intent to return
those gifts
We recruited a drummer and a lead player to add to our
eclectic circus band
We up nights learning the lyrics and chords to Sgt, Pepper
Jimmy the load, while Bennie and I did the harmonies
We were getting ready to rock the Gunga Den a new
With the new electric version of the Upstairs

On Sunday we played our folk set at the Bayou Room
and with a change of wardrobe we into the Gunga Den
with strobe lights flailing, electric prevailing,
and Sergeant Lonely Hearts Band ready to go
Top quote the Beatles, it was to be there
it certainly was a

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 going
Surely we would be discovered and the road to success
would start down Bourbon

But this is the business, fickle at best
and there are a lot of vultures out
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 never entertained a b and as fate would have it
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