{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Desperate Dreams | type = studio | artist = Eddy Raven | cover = Desperate dreams.jpg | alt = | released = September 1981 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country | length = | label = Elektra | producer = Jimmy Bowen | prev_title = Eyes | prev_year = 1980 | next_title = I Could Use Another You | next_year = 1984 | misc = {{Singles | name = Desperate Dreams | type = Studio | single1 = I Should've Called | single1date = May 23, 1981 | single2 = Who Do You Know in California | single2date = October 17, 1981 | single3 = A Little Bit Crazy | single3date = February 20, 1982 | single4 = She's Playing Hard to Forget | single4date = June 19, 1982 }} }} '''''Desperate Dreams''''' is the fourth studio album by American country music singer Eddy Raven. It was released in September 1981 on Elektra Records.
==Content and reception== Four singles were released from the album: "I Should've Called", "Who Do You Know in California", "A Little Bit Crazy", and "She's Playing Hard to Forget". All four charted within the top 20 of Hot Country Songs between 1981 and 1982.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2017|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2017|pages=293–294|isbn=978-0-89820-229-8}}</ref>
''Record World'' wrote of the album that Raven's "commercial potential has not yet been reached", while praising the vocal delivery on the singles.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/80s/81/RW-1981-10-10.pdf | title=Country album picks | journal=Record World | pages=55 | date=October 10, 1981}}</ref> Tom Roland of ''Allmusic'' thought that the album had more creative control from Raven than its predecessors did.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/desperate-dreams-mw0000857038 | title=''Desperate Dreams'' | work=Allmusic | accessdate=April 23, 2019 | author=Tom Roland}}</ref>
==Track listing== All songs written by Eddy Raven except as noted.
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| title1 = Desperate Dreams | length1 = 2:48
| title2 = Who Do You Know in California | length2 = 2:48
| title3 = You're Too Much for Me | writer3 = Jesse Winchester | length3 = 3:09
| title4 = I Know You're the Rain | writer4 = Charlie Black, Rory Bourke | length4 = 3:32
| title5 = I Should've Called | length5 = 3:07
| title6 = A Little Bit Crazy | length6 = 2:16
| title7 = Thinking It Over | length7 = 3:26
| title8 = She's Playing Hard to Forget | writer8 = Keith Stegall, Elroy Kahanek | length8 = 2:22
| title9 = Young Girl | length9 = 2:56
| title10 = Loving Arms and Lying Eyes | length10 = 3:28 }}
==Personnel== *Acoustic Guitar: Kenny Bell, Leo Jackson, Bobby Thompson, Paul Worley *Background Vocals: Dennis William Wilson *Bass Guitar: Bob Wray *Drums: Roger Clark *Electric Guitar: Fred Newell, Reggie Young *Keyboards: Randy McCormick *Lead Vocals: Eddy Raven *Sitar: Reggie Young *Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
==Charts== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}
===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (1981–1982) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|BillboardCountry|26|artist=Eddy Raven|rowheader=true|accessdate=December 19, 2017}} |} {{col-2}}
===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (1982) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1982/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1982|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=June 2, 2021}}</ref> | 30 |} {{col-end}}
==References== {{reflist}}
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Category:1981 albums Category:Elektra Records albums Category:Eddy Raven albums Category:Albums produced by Jimmy Bowen