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

Now I remember when I wrote song. I was imagining being in London
though I'd been
I know if there is a street named Rickety Lane in London
but it sounded to me at the time
In those early days of my
I was certainly feeling the effects of the invasion
Which was the background to the mid-60's rise in
counter that had crossed the
Atlantic and even worked way to
the mouth of the Mississippi

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

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

When we had finished putting together the tracks in
for this
I sent it to to fact check as this 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 this start
Hell he lived a major of it and since then
made a pretty good living
as an actor, director, producer and voice-over
relying on that husky voice of his
So, without further adieu here's Mr. Bennett reading
Sgt. in the gumbo pot
Take it Ricky

Hi I'm Bennett, Jimmy's colleague roommate and
the bass player in our first band, The Alliance
Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon Street
what a combination and in the of 1967,
that was the combination, the stars were up
In the of 1967, Jimmy, myself and Benny
formed a little band called The 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, it get any better than that?
We played our and pop tunes
a few new Beatles ballads as they came along
and usually played to good crowds, then in June of '67
the landscape changed

The Beatles released the
Sergeant Pepper's Hearts Club Band
That album blew us away, we had to be 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 would have it, the bar next to the Room
was the Gunga Den, the Rock 'n Roll bar on Bourbon Street
The owner liked our electric sound
and figured our next should be with his bar

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

Now let it be noted that it was always our to return
those gifts
We recruited a and a lead guitar player to add to our
eclectic electric circus
We stayed up nights learning the lyrics and to Sgt, Pepper
Jimmy carried the load, while and I did the harmonies
We were getting ready to rock the Gunga Den a new
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 strobe lights flailing, electric 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 pretty good
The upstairs alliance became the first Sergeant
cover in New Orleans
was no going back
Surely we would be discovered here and the road to
would start down Bourbon

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

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