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

Now I remember when I that song. I was imagining being in London
though I'd never
I don't if there is a street named Rickety Lane in London
but it sounded good to me at the
In those early days of my
I was feeling the effects of the british invasion
Which was the background music to the rise in
counter that had crossed the
Atlantic and even it's way to
the mouth of the River

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

Bennett was my roommate in college,
the bass player in my band and a life-long
He is now Chair of the Toronto school and has
in the film and commercial 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 RB when we play Toronto as we did this summer

When we had finished together the tracks in storage
for this
I sent it to Ricky to fact check as this stuff happened a long
ago and sure enough he came up a few
of treasure that I had forgotten about
and that's when I thought it would be 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 voice-over
relying on that Canadian voice of his
So, further adieu here's Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. in the gumbo pot
it away Ricky

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, colleague roommate and
the bass player in our first band, The Upstairs
JImmy Buffett, The Beatles and Street
a combination and in the summer 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 insistence, we auditioned 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 as they came along
and usually played to good crowds, then in June of '67
the landscape changed

The released the album
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
That album blew us away, we had to be part of
It was time to go
JB traded in his Martin D acoustic for the electric
I traded the 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 'n Roll bar on Bourbon Street
The owner kinda liked our sound
and figured our next should be with his bar

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

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

On Sunday we played our last folk set at the Bayou
and with a of wardrobe we walked into the Gunga Den
strobe lights flailing, electric energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Lonely 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 good press
The upstairs became the first Sergeant Peppers
band in New Orleans
There was no going
Surely we would be here and the road to success
would down Bourbon Street

But is the music 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 to make it

Because he entertained a plan b and as fate would have it
is the wino who had something to say