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

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

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

Bennett 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
worked in the and commercial world,
ever since leaving the band and
He also directed the: Who's the blonde video
we filmed in Key West
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 this
I sent it to Ricky to fact check as stuff happened a long time
ago and enough he came up with a few
bits of treasure that I had forgotten
and that's when I thought it would be cool to him read this start
Hell he lived a part of it and since then
made a pretty good living
as an actor, director, producer and specialist
on that husky Canadian voice of his
So, without further here's Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. Pepper in the pot
Take it away

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, Jimmy's roommate and
the bass player in our first band, The Upstairs
JImmy Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon
what a and in the summer of 1967,
that was the combination, the stars lining up
In the Spring of 1967, Jimmy, and Benny
formed a little band 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 that?
We played our folk and pop
adding a few new Beatles ballads as they along
and usually to pretty good crowds, then in June of '67
the music changed

The Beatles the album
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Club Band
That album blew us away, we had to be of that
It was time to go
JB in his Martin D acoustic for the electric version
I traded the stand-up Bass for a Fender Jazz
And Benny, well she her old tambourine
as fate would have it, the bar next to the Bayou
was the Gunga Den, the hottest Rock 'n bar on Bourbon Street
The owner kinda our electric sound
and figured our next progression should be 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 these boys always take surprises well
Back on the College campus we
an after hours visit to the theatre costume
and some outrageous Sgt, Pepper style costumes

Now let it be noted it was always our intent to return
generous gifts
We recruited a drummer and a lead player to add to our
eclectic electric band
We stayed up nights learning the and chords 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 electric version of the Upstairs

On Sunday we played our folk set at the Bayou Room
and a change of wardrobe we walked into the Gunga Den
with lights flailing, electric energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Lonely Band ready to go
Top the Beatles, it was wonderful 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 became the Sergeant Peppers
cover in New Orleans
There was no back
Surely we would be 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 Orleans was one of the great of my life
We didn't make it, but way back then we
Jimmy was to make it

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