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 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 certainly the effects of the british invasion
was the background music to the mid-60's rise in
counter that had crossed the
Atlantic and worked it's way to
the mouth of the Mississippi

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

Rick Bennett was my in college,
the bass player in my band and a life-long
He is now of the Toronto film school and has
worked in the and commercial world,
ever leaving the band and school
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 Toronto as we did this summer

When we had putting together the tracks in storage
for this
I sent it to Ricky to fact check as stuff happened a long time
ago and sure he came up with a few
bits of treasure I had forgotten about
and that's when I thought it would be cool to him read this start
Hell he a major part of it and since then
he's a pretty good living
as an actor, director, producer and voice-over
relying on husky Canadian voice of his
So, without further adieu Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. in the gumbo pot
it away Ricky

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, Jimmy's roommate and
the bass in our first band, The Upstairs Alliance
JImmy Buffett, The Beatles and Bourbon
what a combination and in the of 1967,
that was the combination, the were lining up
In the of 1967, Jimmy, myself and Benny
formed a little band The Upstairs Alliance

And on Jimmy's insistence, we for and got the
gig at a folk club called The Bayou on Bourbon Street
in New
And I'm thinking, it get any better than that?
We our folk and pop tunes
adding a few new Beatles ballads as came along
and played 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 Bass for a Fender Jazz Master
And Benny, she kept her old tambourine
as fate would have it, the bar to the Bayou Room
was the Den, the hottest Rock 'n Roll bar on Bourbon Street
The owner kinda liked our sound
and figured our next progression be with his bar

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

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

On Sunday we played our last folk set at the Bayou
and with a change of we walked into the Gunga Den
with strobe lights flailing, electric prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Lonely Band ready 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 the first Sergeant Peppers
cover in New Orleans
There was no back
Surely we be discovered here and the road to success
start down Bourbon Street

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

Because he entertained a plan b and as fate would have it
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