Bop till You Drop

For the Rick Springfield song, see Hard to Hold.
Bop till You Drop
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released July 1979[1]
Recorded Warner Brothers Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA
Genre R&B, blues rock
Length 39:56
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology

Jazz
(1978)		 Bop till You Drop
(1979)		 The Long Riders
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
Robert Christgau B+[3]
Rolling Stone (favorable)[4]

Bop till You Drop is Ry Cooder's eighth album, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). This was the first major-label digitally recorded album of Pop music. It was recorded on a 32-track machine built by 3M.[5][6]

The album consisted almost entirely of covers of earlier R&B and rock'n'roll classics, including Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" and the 1965 Fontella Bass-Bobby McClure hit "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing", on which Cooder duetted with soul star Chaka Khan, who also performed on the only original track on the album, "Down in Hollywood".

Track listing

  1. "Little Sister" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 3:49
  2. "Go Home, Girl" (Arthur Alexander) – 5:10
  3. "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)" (Sidney Bailey) – 5:32
  4. "I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine" (Rose Marie McCoy, Sylvia McKinney) – 4:43
  5. "Down in Hollywood" (Cooder, Tim Drummond) – 4:14
  6. "Look at Granny Run Run" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman) – 3:09
  7. "Trouble, You Can't Fool Me" (Frederick Knight, Aaron Varnell) – 4:55
  8. "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing" (Oliver Sain) – 4:08
  9. "I Can't Win" (Lester Johnson, Clifton Knight, Dave Richardson) – 4:16

Personnel

Charts

Album

Year Chart Peak
1979 Billboard Pop Albums 62

References

  1. ↑ "Bop Till You Drop by Ry Cooder". Rate Your Music. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ Robert Christgau review
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  5. ↑ Roger Nichols I Can’t Keep Up With All The Formats II "The Ry Cooder Bop Till You Drop album was the first digitally recorded pop album"
  6. ↑ Mix online 1978 3M Digital Audio Mastering System "Among the notable early pop releases cut on the 3M system included Ry Cooder’s Bop Till You Drop"