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

Now I when I wrote that song. I was imagining being in London
I'd never been
I don't know if there is a named Rickety Lane in London
but it sounded good to me at the
In those days of my songwriting
I was certainly feeling the effects of the british
Which was the music to the mid-60's rise in
counter culture had crossed the
Atlantic and even it's way to
the of the Mississippi River

The repetoire of the alliance was filled with songs by the
Clark Five. The Kicks,
The Stones, Hermits Hermits, The and
of The Beatles,
We all to look, sound and act British
But the closest we really
could get to being an group
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
worked in the film and world,
ever since leaving the band and
He also directed the: Who's the blonde video
Which we filmed in Key
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 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 have him read this
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. Pepper in the pot
Take it Ricky

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, Jimmy's roommate and
the player in our first band, The Upstairs Alliance
JImmy Buffett, The and Bourbon Street
a combination and in the summer of 1967,
that was the combination, the stars lining up
In the of 1967, Jimmy, myself and Benny
formed a band called 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, does it get any than that?
We played our and pop tunes
a few new Beatles ballads as they came along
and usually played to pretty crowds, then in June of '67
the landscape changed

The Beatles the album
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band
That blew us away, we had to be part of that
It was to go electric
JB traded in his Martin D acoustic for the version
I traded the Bass for a Fender Jazz Master
And Benny, well she her old tambourine
as would 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 our next progression 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 opening with Sergeant
Now these boys didn't always surprises well
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 that it was always our intent to
those generous
We recruited a drummer and a lead guitar to add to our
eclectic electric circus
We up nights learning the lyrics and chords to Sgt, Pepper
carried the load, while Bennie and I did the harmonies
We getting ready 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 strobe lights flailing, electric prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Hearts 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 good press
The upstairs alliance the first Sergeant Peppers
band in New Orleans
There was no going
Surely we would be discovered here and the road to
would start Bourbon Street

But this is the business, fickle at best
and are a lot of vultures out there
Like Jimmy, New was one of the great experiences of my life
We make it, but way back then we knew
Jimmy was going to it

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