CHERRY RED
It’s safe to surmise that history will not judge La Toya as the most talented of the Jackson siblings. Her second album, first released in 1981 and now reissued on CD, was a limp exercise in disco-pop over which La Toya trilled like a boiling kettle, her voice a reedy quaver. Her fam half-heartedly rallied around: Randy duetted on Giving You Up and Janet pitched in on Camp Kuchi Kaiai, but it wasn’t enough to salvage an utter non-event. Six bonus songs, basically shorter 7”single versions of the album tracks, don’t feel like much of a bonus at all.