Secret love

Secret lovedoris day- written by sammy fain and paul-francis webster- written for the movie "calamity jane"- #1 song of january 1954- tommy edwards (#28, 1954); ray anthony (#29, 1954); - billy stewart (#29, 1966); - freddy fender (#20, 1975) once i had a secret lovethat lived within the heart of meall too soon my secret lovebecame impatient to be freeso i told a friendly starthe way that dreamers often dojust how wonderful you areand why i am so in love with younow i shout it from the highest hillseven told the golden daffodilsat last my heart's an open doorand my secret love's no secret anymore------------------------------------------------------------------- "when i first heard 'secret love' i almost fainted, it was so beautiful.... when we finally got around to doing the prerecording, ray heindorf, the musical director at warner's, said he'd get the musicians in about 12:30 so they could rehearse. that morning i did my vocal warm up, then jumped on my bike and rode over to warner's (we lived in toluca lake at the time, which was just minutes from the studio). when i got there, i sang the song with the orchestra for the first time. when i'd finished, ray called me into the sound booth, grinning from ear to ear, and said, 'that's it. you're never going to do it better.' that was the first and only take we did." - doris day