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

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

The repetoire of the upstairs was filled with songs 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 closest we ever
could get to being an international
was a Canadian member

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

we had finished putting together the tracks in storage
for collection
I sent it to Ricky to check as this stuff happened a long time
ago and sure enough he up with a few
bits of treasure I had forgotten about
and when 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 pretty good
as an actor, director, and voice-over specialist
relying on that husky Canadian of his
So, further adieu here's Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. Pepper in the pot
Take it away

Hi I'm Bennett, Jimmy's colleague roommate and
the bass player in our first band, The Alliance
JImmy Buffett, The and Bourbon Street
what a and in the summer 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 folk club The Bayou Room on Bourbon Street
in New
And I'm thinking, does it get any than that?
We played our folk and pop
adding a few new Beatles ballads as came along
and usually played to pretty good crowds, then in of '67
the landscape changed

The released the album
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Club Band
That blew us away, we had to be part of that
It was to go electric
JB in his Martin D acoustic for the electric version
I traded the stand-up Bass for a Jazz Master
And Benny, well she her old tambourine
as fate would have it, the bar next to the Room
was the Gunga Den, the hottest 'n Roll bar on Bourbon Street
The kinda liked our electric sound
and figured our progression should be with his bar

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

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

On Sunday we played our last folk set at the Room
and with a change of wardrobe we into the Gunga Den
strobe lights flailing, electric energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Band to go
Top the Beatles, it was wonderful to be there
it was a thrill

The was a hit
the bar made money and we were getting some good press
The upstairs became the first Sergeant Peppers
cover in New Orleans
was no going back
Surely we be discovered here and the road to success
would start down Street

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

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