Two Places at the Same Time is the third studio album from Raydio

Raydio

Raydio was an American funk and R&B vocal group formed in 1977, by Ray Parker Jr., with Vincent Bohnam, Jerry Knight, and Arnell Carmichael.-Career:...

, the group led by session guitarist/songwriter/producer Ray Parker, Jr.

Ray Parker, Jr.

Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...

 Like the two albums that came before it, it again features 8 tracks; one of them, "Until The Morning Comes" was written by Parker and vocalist Arnell Carmichael. For another song, "Tonight's The Night", Parker teamed up with famed keyboard player Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

, and Hancock received a co-writing credit.

The album featured another pop hit; though it wasn't as successful, the title track reached number 30 on the pop charts, number 6 on R&B and number 34 in the U.K. The second single, "For Those Who Like To Groove", charted at number 14 on R&B. The album itself reached a peak of number 33.

Track listing

All Songs Written By Ray Parker Jr., except where noted.

1. "It's Time to Party Now"
2. "Until the Morning Comes"
3. "Two Places at the Same Time"
4. "Tonight's the Night" (Parker, Herbie Hancock
   Herbie Hancock
   Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
   
   )
5. "A Little Bit of You"
6. "Everybody Makes Mistakes"
7. "Can't Keep from Cryin'"
8. "For Those Who Like to Groove" (Instrumental)

Raydio

• Arnell Carmichael – vocals
• Ray Parker, Jr.
  Ray Parker, Jr.
  Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...
  
   – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizer

Additional musicians

• Jack Ashford
  Jack Ashford
  Jack Ashford , known to his friends as Jashford, is an African-American musician, widely known as the percussionist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the 1960s and early 1970s. Ashford is most famous for playing the tambourine on hundreds of Motown recordings...
  
   – percussion
• Ollie E. Brown
  Ollie E. Brown
  Ollie E. Brown is an American drummer, percussionist and record producer. A prolific session musician, Brown has performed on over a hundred albums in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Brown was also half of the American dance-pop duo Ollie & Jerry, which had a Top 10 hit with "Breakin'.....
  
   – drums, percussion, special effects, vocals
• Gary Coleman – vibraphone, vocals
• Charles Fearing – guitars
• Horatio Gordon – saxophone,flute
• Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
  – keyboards, synthesizers
• Ken Peterson – trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
• Sylvester Rivers – piano, strings
• Larry Tolbert – drums
• Darren Carmichael, Deborah Thomas – backing vocals