Christopher Cross churn out music that knows its place: Top Forty radio. This San Antonio-born group, named after its lead singer-guitarist-songwriter, combines the Marshall Tucker Band's sophisticated country rock, Danny O'Keefe's soulful folk stylings and the kind of glossy, Los Angeles cha-cha sound that producer Ted Templeman helps Nicolette Larson and the Doobie Brothers make. Such a familiar...

Christopher Cross' self-designated "pop 'n' roll" falls midway along an artistic continuum that has Steely Dan at its apex and Air Supply at its nadir. Cross isn't a storyteller, a visionary or an intellectual, but a traditional pop romantic with a gift for solid tunes and an ear for polished studio textures. Another Page, like Cross' multiplatinum debut album, is likable most of all for its...