Pop Pop


Pop Pop is an album by the American musician Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1991.
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 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. Charlie Haden played bass on some of its tracks. 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." 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" – 5:55
  2. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" – 3:57
  3. "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" – 3:38
  4. "Up from the Skies" – 4:32
  5. "The Second Time Around" – 4:50
  6. "Dat Dere" – 4:07
  7. "I'll Be Seeing You" – 3:14
  8. "Bye Bye Blackbird" – 2:22
  9. "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" – 4:22
  10. "I Won't Grow Up" – 3:11
  11. "Love Junkyard" – 4:11
  12. "Comin' Back to Me" – 5:35

Personnel

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