{{Other uses}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{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, Topanga, California | genre = Jazz, vocal jazz, folk | length = | label = Geffen<ref>{{cite news |last1=Takiff |first1=Jonathan |title=Almost as under-produced... |work=Philadelphia Daily News |date=8 Oct 1991 |department=Features Yo! |page=35}}</ref> | 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Chris |title=Pop pop |work=Chicago Tribune |date=27 Sep 1991 |department=Friday |page=P}}</ref>
The album contains cover versions, ranging from jazz and blues standards to Tin Pan Alley to Jimi Hendrix's "Up from the Skies".<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gilbert |first1=Matthew |title=Recordings |work=The Boston Globe |date=3 Oct 1991 |department=Calendar |page=7}}</ref> Charlie Haden played bass on some of its tracks.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Levesque |first1=Roger |title=Ricki Lee's jazz full of feeling |work=Edmonton Journal |date=3 Nov 1991 |page=D4}}</ref> The cover artwork resembles a package of bang snaps. ==Critical reception== {{album ratings |rev1 = ''Calgary Herald'' |rev1score = B<ref name="CH">{{cite news |last1=Zimmerman |first1=Kate |title=Recent Releases |work=Calgary Herald |date=27 Oct 1991 |page=C5}}</ref> }} ''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."<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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."<ref name=CH/>
==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
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