Consumer Guide Album

Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio: Two Places at the Same Time [Arista, 1980]
Leading off with one polite Chic rip and closing out with another, this well-named piece of product is the kind of hither-and-yon effort that signals commercial alarm. Sometimes fawningly pop, othertimes hyperbolically party-hearty, it scores in neither mode. And with this guy, scoring is all. C+