Pop Pop Explained

Pop Pop
Type:	studio
Artist:	Rickie Lee Jones
Cover:	Album_cover_for_Rickie_Lee_Jones'_Pop_Pop.jpg
Released:	September 1991
Recorded:	1989
Studio:	Skyline Recording, Topanga, California
Genre:	Jazz, vocal jazz, folk
Label:	Geffen^[1]
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.^{[2] [3]}

The album contains cover versions, ranging from jazz and blues standards to Tin Pan Alley to Jimi Hendrix's "Up from the Skies".^[4] 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.^[5] Charlie Haden played bass on some of its tracks.^[6] The cover artwork resembles a package of bang snaps.

Critical reception

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."^[7] 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

1. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) – 5:55
2. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 3:57
3. "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (Bronisław Kaper, Helen Deutsch) – 3:38
4. "Up from the Skies" (Jimi Hendrix) – 4:32
5. "The Second Time Around" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 4:50
6. "Dat Dere" (Bobby Timmons, Oscar Brown, Jr.) – 4:07
7. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) – 3:14
8. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 2:22
9. "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 4:22
10. "I Won't Grow Up" (Carolyn Leigh, Mark Charlap) – 3:11
11. "Love Junkyard" (David Weiss, John Keller) – 4:11
12. "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

Notes and References

1. News: Takiff . Jonathan . Almost as under-produced... . Philadelphia Daily News . 8 Oct 1991 . Features Yo! . 35.
2. News: Goldstein . Patrick . Rickie Lee Jones Covers the Field . Los Angeles Times . 21 July 1991 . Calendar . 62.
3. News: Heim . Chris . Pop pop . Chicago Tribune . 27 Sep 1991 . Friday . P.
4. News: Meyers Sharp . Jo Ellen . Rickie Lee Jones mixes it up . The Indianapolis Star . 4 Nov 1991 . C6.
5. News: Gilbert . Matthew . Recordings . The Boston Globe . 3 Oct 1991 . Calendar . 7.
6. News: Levesque . Roger . Ricki Lee's jazz full of feeling . Edmonton Journal . 3 Nov 1991 . D4.
7. News: Schoemer . Karen . Rickie Lee Jones Has Grown Up Into a Chanteuse . The New York Times . 15 Sep 1991 . A34.