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Bop Till You Drop is the eighth studio album by American musician Ry Cooder, released in July 1979 by Warner Bros. Records. It peaked at number 62 on the US Billboard 200 and also reached the top ten in New Zealand and Norway. The album consists almost entirely of covers of earlier rhythm and blues and rock and 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. Khan also performed on the only original track on the album, "Down in Hollywood". Bop Till You Drop was the first digitally recorded major-label album in popular music. The album was recorded at Amigo Studios in North Hollywood, Los Angeles on a digital 32-track machine built by 3M, which at the time carried a price tag of $115,000. When discussing the impact of the digital recording process, Cooder commented that "for the first time, we are hearing back exactly what we played. Instead of noise, we hear each little sound perfectly...For guitars, the textures come out. You get that real finger-chord skin sound, that brushy feel." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bop_Til...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
