Pop Pop
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{{Infobox album
| name = Pop Pop
| type = studio
| artist = Rickie Lee Jones
| cover = Album_cover_for_Rickie_Lee_Jones'_Pop_Pop.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 1991
| recorded = 1989
| venue =
| studio = Skyline Recording, Topanga, California
| genre = Jazz, vocal jazz, folk
| length =
| label = Geffen{{cite news |last1=Takiff |first1=Jonathan |title=Almost as under-produced... |work=Philadelphia Daily News |date=8 Oct 1991 |department=Features Yo! |page=35}}
| producer = David Was, Rickie Lee Jones
| prev_title = Flying Cowboys
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Traffic from Paradise
| next_year = 1993
}}
Pop Pop is an album by the American musician Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1991.{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Patrick |title=Rickie Lee Jones Covers the Field |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 July 1991 |department=Calendar |page=62}}{{cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Chris |title=Pop pop |work=Chicago Tribune |date=27 Sep 1991 |department=Friday |page=P}}
The album contains cover versions, ranging from jazz and blues standards to Tin Pan Alley to Jimi Hendrix's "Up from the Skies".{{cite news |last1=Meyers Sharp |first1=Jo Ellen |title=Rickie Lee Jones mixes it up |work=The Indianapolis Star |date=4 Nov 1991 |page=C6}} It reached No. 8 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums and No. 121 on the Billboard 200.
Production
The album was coproduced by David Was and Jones.{{cite news |last1=Gilbert |first1=Matthew |title=Recordings |work=The Boston Globe |date=3 Oct 1991 |department=Calendar |page=7}} Charlie Haden played bass on some of its tracks.{{cite news |last1=Levesque |first1=Roger |title=Ricki Lee's jazz full of feeling |work=Edmonton Journal |date=3 Nov 1991 |page=D4}} The cover artwork resembles a package of bang snaps.
Critical reception
{{album ratings
|rev1 = Calgary Herald
|rev1score = B{{cite news |last1=Zimmerman |first1=Kate |title=Recent Releases |work=Calgary Herald |date=27 Oct 1991 |page=C5}}
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The New York Times wrote that Jones's "vocal eccentricities, her swoops and shudders and pucker-sweet coos, seem at odds with the material rather than complicitous."{{cite news |last1=Schoemer |first1=Karen |title=Rickie Lee Jones Has Grown Up Into a Chanteuse |work=The New York Times |date=15 Sep 1991 |page=A34}} The Calgary Herald noted that "Jones's plaintive, muttering, whispering little-girl voice weaves a web of intimacy around the listener... Still, it's not for every taste."
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
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