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

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