Pop Pop
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| Released | September 24, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Studio | Skyline Recording, Topanga, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz, vocal jazz, folk | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Producer | David Was, Rickie Lee Jones | |||
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Pop Pop is an album by American singer Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1991. It was produced by David Was from Was (Not Was).[1][2]
The album contains cover versions, ranging from jazz and blues standards to Tin Pan Alley to Jimi Hendrix's "Up from the Skies". It reached No. 8 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums, but was her least commercially successful in her career to that point, reaching No. 121 on the Billboard 200. The cover artwork resembles a package of bang snaps.
Track listing
- "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) – 5:55
- "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 3:57
- "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (Bronisław Kaper, Helen Deutsch) – 3:38
- "Up from the Skies" (Jimi Hendrix) – 4:32
- "The Second Time Around" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 4:50
- "Dat Dere" (Bobby Timmons, Oscar Brown, Jr.) – 4:07
- "I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) – 3:14
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 2:22
- "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 4:22
- "I Won't Grow Up" (Carolyn Leigh, Mark Charlap) – 3:11
- "Love Junkyard" (David Weiss, John Keller) – 4:11
- "Comin' Back to Me" (Marty Balin) – 5:35
Personnel
- Rickie Lee Jones, vocals; acoustic guitar on "Comin' Back to Me"
- Robben Ford - acoustic guitar
- Charlie Haden, John Leftwich - acoustic bass
- Walfredo Reyes, Jr. - bongos, shakers
- Bob Sheppard - clarinet on "I'll Be Seeing You", tenor saxophone on "Love Junkyard"
- Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone on "Dat Dere" and "Bye Bye Blackbird"
- Dino Saluzzi - bandoneon on "My One and Only Love", "Hi-Lili Hi-Lo" and "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men"
- Charlie Shoemake - vibraphone on "Love Junkyard"
- Steven Kindler - violin on "Second Time Around"
- David Was - percussion, background vocals
- Michael O'Neill - acoustic guitar on "Up From The Skies" and "Love Junkyard"
- Michael Greiner - hurdy-gurdy on "Comin' Back to Me"
- April Gay, Arnold McCuller, David Was, Donny Gerrard, Terry Bradford - backing vocals
Technical
- Greg Penny, John Eden, Jon Ingoldsby - engineer
- Kevin Reagan - art direction, design
- Pascal Nabet Meyer - Executive Producer
References
- ^ "Rickie Lee Jones - Pop Pop (CD, Album) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
- ^ Pop Pop, credits at Allmusic at AllMusic. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
