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 street named Rickety in London
but it sounded to me at the time
In those days of my songwriting
I was certainly feeling the of the british invasion
Which was the music to the mid-60's rise in
culture that had crossed the
Atlantic and even worked way to
the mouth of the Mississippi

The repetoire of the upstairs alliance was filled with by the
Clark Five. The Kicks,
The Stones, Hermits, The Animals and
of The Beatles,
We all to look, sound and act British
But the we really ever
could get to being an international
was having a member

Rick 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,
since leaving the band and school
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

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

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, colleague roommate and
the bass player in our band, The Upstairs Alliance
JImmy Buffett, The Beatles and Street
what a combination and in the of 1967,
was the combination, the stars were lining up
In the Spring of 1967, Jimmy, myself and
formed a little 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 than that?
We played our and pop tunes
adding a few new ballads as they came along
and usually to pretty good crowds, then in June of '67
the landscape changed

The released the album
Sergeant Pepper's 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 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 Roll bar on Bourbon
The owner kinda our electric sound
and figured our progression should be with his bar

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

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

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

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

Because he never a plan b and as fate would have it
is the wino who had something to say