“In a Letter to You”
Eddy Raven
Written by Dennis Linde
Radio & Records
#1 (1 week)
June 23, 1989
Billboard
#1 (1 week)
July 15, 1989
Eddy Raven changed labels at the end of the decade, but what remained consistent was the high caliber of his material and his performances.
“In a Letter to You” is an especially fun number. The whimsical song was written by Dennis Linde, and it’s a fresh take on the old trope about words not being enough to describe love.
Here, our protagonist gives up on trying to say I love you in writing, and instead contemplates the beauty around him and promises to send those in a letter instead:
I took the mornin’ sun peekin’ through the treesAnd the dandelion silk tangled in the breezeI folded ’em up, sealed ’em with a kissIt’s the kind of letter that you can’t resist
As on earlier records, Raven again proves a deft singer, navigating a complicated lyric with remarkable ease. Sure, the production is a little old fashioned even for 1989, but how cool is it that Raven is a one man early eighties Oak Ridge Boys on this record? This could be presented as a lost hit from Fancy Free and nobody would question it.
Raven has another number one on deck before the decade closes.
“In a Letter to You” gets a B+.
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