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 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 british
Which was the background to the mid-60's rise in
counter culture had crossed the
Atlantic and even it's way to
the mouth of the Mississippi

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

Rick was my roommate in college,
the bass player in my band and a friend
He is now Chair of the Toronto film and has
worked in the film and world,
since leaving the band and school
He also directed 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 putting together the tracks in
for this
I sent it to Ricky to fact as this stuff happened a long time
ago and enough he came up with a few
bits of treasure that I had about
and that's when I it would be cool to have him read this start
Hell he lived a major part of it and since
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. in the gumbo pot
it away Ricky

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, colleague roommate and
the bass player in our first band, The Alliance
JImmy Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon
what a and in the summer of 1967,
that was the combination, the stars 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 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
adding a few new Beatles ballads as they came
and usually to pretty good crowds, then in June of '67
the music landscape

The released the album
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band
That blew us away, we had to be part of that
It was time to go
JB traded in his Martin D acoustic for the version
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 hottest Rock 'n Roll bar on Bourbon
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 we might surprise him
by with Sergeant Pepper
Now these boys didn't take surprises well
on the College campus we made
an after hours visit to the theatre department
and 'borrowed' some outrageous Sgt, style costumes

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

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

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

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

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