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

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

The repetoire of the upstairs was filled with songs by the
Dave 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 international
was having a Canadian

Bennett was my roommate in college,
the bass player in my and a life-long friend
He is now Chair of the Toronto school and has
in the film and commercial world,
ever since leaving the and school
He also directed Who's the blonde stranger video
we filmed in Key West
We've stayed in over the years and
I always visit RB when we play Toronto as we did summer

When we had putting together the tracks in storage
for collection
I sent it to Ricky to fact as this stuff happened a long time
ago and sure he came up with a few
bits of treasure that I had forgotten
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 good living
as an actor, director, producer and voice-over
relying on that husky Canadian of his
So, without further adieu here's Mr. Rick reading
Sgt. Pepper in the pot
Take it Ricky

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, Jimmy's colleague and
the bass player in our first band, The Upstairs
Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon Street
what a combination and in the of 1967,
was the combination, the stars were lining 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 club called The Bayou Room on Bourbon Street
in New
And I'm thinking, does it get any than that?
We played our and pop tunes
a few new Beatles ballads as they came along
and usually to pretty good crowds, then in June of '67
the music landscape

The Beatles the album
Sergeant Lonely Hearts 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 the stand-up Bass for a Fender Jazz Master
And Benny, well she kept her old
as fate have it, the bar next to the Bayou Room
was the Gunga Den, the Rock 'n Roll bar on Bourbon Street
The owner kinda liked our electric
and figured our progression 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 with Sergeant Pepper
Now these boys didn't always take surprises
Back on the campus we made
an hours visit to the theatre costume department
and some outrageous Sgt, Pepper style costumes

Now let it be noted it was always our intent to return
those gifts
We recruited a drummer and a lead guitar to add to our
electric circus band
We stayed up nights the lyrics and chords to Sgt, Pepper
Jimmy carried the load, Bennie and I did the harmonies
We were getting ready to rock the Gunga Den a new
With the new electric 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
with lights flailing, electric energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts 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 alliance the first Sergeant Peppers
band in New Orleans
There was no going
Surely we would be here and the road to success
would start down Street

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

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