Bop till You Drop

Bop till You Drop
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released	July 1979
Recorded	Warner Brothers Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA
Genre	R&B, blues rock
Length	39:56
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology
Jazz (1978) Bop till You Drop (1979) The Long Riders (1980)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau	B+
Rolling Stone	(favorable)

Bop till You Drop is Ry Cooder's ninth album, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). This was the first major-label digitally recorded album of Pop music. It was recorded on a 32-track machine built by 3M.

The album consisted almost entirely of covers of earlier R&B and rock'n'roll classics, including Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" and the 1965 Fontella Bass-Bobby McClure hit "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing", on which Cooder duetted with soul star Chaka Khan, who also performed on the only original track on the album, "Down in Hollywood".

Track listing

1. "Little Sister" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 3:49
2. "Go Home, Girl" (Arthur Alexander) – 5:10
3. "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)" (Sidney Bailey) – 5:32
4. "I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine" (Rose Marie McCoy, Sylvia McKinney) – 4:43
5. "Down in Hollywood" (Cooder, Tim Drummond) – 4:14
6. "Look at Granny Run Run" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman) – 3:09
7. "Trouble, You Can't Fool Me" (Frederick Knight, Aaron Varnell) – 4:55
8. "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing" (Oliver Sain) – 4:08
9. "I Can't Win" (Lester Johnson, Clifton Knight, Dave Richardson) – 4:16

Personnel

• Jimmy Adams – vocals, backing vocals
• David Alexander – photography
• Ronnie Barron – organ, guitar, keyboards
• Loyd Clifft – assistant engineer
• Ry Cooder – bass, guitar, mandolin, vocals, background vocals, producer
• Tim Drummond – bass
• Vicki Fortson – production coordination
• Cliff Givens – vocals, backing vocals
• Rev. Patrick Henderson – organ, keyboards
• Lee Herschberg – engineer
• Milt Holland – percussion, drums
• Bill Johnson – backing vocals
• Herman E. Johnson – vocals, backing vocals
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Chaka Khan – vocals
• Bobby King – vocals, backing vocals
• David Lindley – guitar, mandolin
• Randy Lorenzo – vocals, backing vocals
• Reggie McBride – bass
• George "Biggie" McFadden – vocals, backing vocals
• Simon Pico Payne – vocals
• Greg Prestopino – vocals, backing vocals
• Penny Ringwood – production coordination
• Mike Salisbury – design

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Peak
1979	Billboard Pop Albums	62