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Released
  
September 24, 1991

Release date
  
24 September 1991

Genres
  
Folk music, Vocal jazz

Artist
  
Rickie Lee Jones

Label
  
Geffen Records

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Pop Pop (1991)
  
Traffic from Paradise (1993)

Producers
  
David Was, Rickie Lee Jones, Pascal Nabet Meyer

Similar
  
Flying Cowboys, It's Like This, The Magazine, Traffic from Paradise, Pirates

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Pop Pop is an album by Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1991. It was produced by David Was from Was (Not Was).

Contents

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 #8 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums, but was her least commercially successful in her career to that point, reaching #121 on the Billboard 200. The cover artwork resembles a package of bang snaps.

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"
  • Steve Kindler - violin on "Second Time Around"
  • Michael O'Neil - acoustic guitar on "Up From The Skies" and "Love Junkyard"
  • Michael Greiner - percussion
  • April Gay, Arnold McCuller, David Was, Donny Gerrard, Terry Bradford - vocals

    • Songs

    1My One and Only Love5:57
    2Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most3:58
    3Hi-Lili Hi-Lo3:39

    References

    Pop Pop Wikipedia
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