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

Now I remember when I wrote that song. I was imagining in London
though I'd been
I don't if there is a street named Rickety Lane in London
but it sounded good to me at the
In those early of my songwriting
I was feeling the effects of the british invasion
Which was the background to the mid-60's rise in
culture that had crossed the
Atlantic and worked it's way to
the of the Mississippi River

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 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 life-long
He is now Chair of the film school and has
worked in the film and world,
ever since leaving the band and
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 as we did this summer

we had finished putting together the tracks in storage
for collection
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 I had forgotten about
and that's 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 living
as an actor, director, producer and voice-over
relying on that Canadian voice of his
So, without further adieu Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. Pepper in the pot
it away Ricky

Hi I'm Bennett, Jimmy's colleague roommate and
the bass in our first band, The Upstairs 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 Spring of 1967, Jimmy, and Benny
formed a band called The Upstairs Alliance

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

The released the album
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
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 Jazz Master
And Benny, well she kept her old
as would have it, the bar next to the Bayou Room
was the Gunga Den, the hottest Rock 'n Roll bar on Street
The owner liked our electric sound
and our next progression should be with his bar

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

Now let it be that it was always our intent to return
those generous
We recruited a drummer and a lead player to add to our
eclectic electric band
We stayed up nights learning the lyrics and chords to Sgt,
Jimmy carried the load, while 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 our last folk set at the Bayou Room
and with a change of wardrobe we walked into the Den
with lights flailing, electric energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Band 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 good
The upstairs became the first Sergeant Peppers
cover in New Orleans
There was no back
we would be discovered here and the road to success
would start down Bourbon

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

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