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 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 to the mid-60's rise in
counter that had crossed the
Atlantic and even it's way to
the mouth of the Mississippi

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

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

When we had finished putting together the tracks in
for this
I sent it to Ricky to fact check as this stuff happened a time
ago and enough he came up with a few
bits of treasure that I had about
and that's when I thought it would be to have him read this start
Hell he a major part of it and since then
he's made a good living
as an actor, director, and voice-over specialist
relying on husky Canadian voice of his
So, further adieu here's Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. in the gumbo pot
Take it away

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

And on insistence, we auditioned for and got the
gig at a folk 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 Beatles as they came along
and usually played to pretty good crowds, in June of '67
the landscape changed

The Beatles released the
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 stand-up Bass for a Fender Jazz
And Benny, she kept her old tambourine
as fate would have it, the bar to the Bayou Room
was the Gunga Den, the hottest Rock 'n Roll bar on Street
The owner kinda our electric sound
and figured our next should be with his bar

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

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

On we played our last folk set at the Bayou Room
and with a change of we walked into the Gunga Den
strobe lights flailing, electric energy prevailing,
and Sergeant Lonely Hearts Band ready to go
Top quote the Beatles, it was to be there
it certainly was a

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

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

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