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Secret Love (Doris Day song)

"Secret Love"
Single by Doris Day
B-side "The Deadwood Stage
(Whip-Crack-Away!)
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Released October 9, 1953
Format 7" (45 rpm), 10" (78 rpm)
Recorded August 5, 1953
Genre Traditional pop
Length 3:41
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
Doris Day singles chronology
"Choo-Choo Train"
(1953)
"Secret Love"
(1953)
"I Speak to the Stars"
(1954)
"Secret Love"
Single by Slim Whitman
from the album Favorites
B-side "Why"
Released December 1953
Format 7" single
Recorded 4 December 1953
Genre C&W
Length 2:25
Label Imperial
Writer(s) Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
Slim Whitman singles chronology
"Lord Help Me Be as Thou"
(1953)
"Secret Love"
(1953)
"Rose Marie"
(1954)
"Secret Love"
Single by Kathy Kirby
B-side "You Have to Want to Touch Him"
Released October 1963
Format 7" single
Genre Beat
Length 2:25
Label Decca
Writer(s) Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
Producer(s) Peter Sullivan
Kathy Kirby singles chronology
"Dance On"
(1963)
"Secret Love"
(1963)
"Let Me Go, Lover"
(1964)
"Secret Love"
Single by Billy Stewart
from the album Billy Stewart Teaches Old Standards New Tricks
B-side "Look Back & Smile"
Released September 1966
Format 7" single
Genre R&B
Length 2:55
Label Chess
Writer(s) Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
Producer(s) Billy Davis, Leonard Caston
Billy Stewart singles chronology
"Summertime"
(1966)
"Secret Love"
(1966)
"Every Day I Have the Blues"
(1967)
"Secret Love"
Single by Freddy Fender
from the album Are You Ready For Freddy?
B-side "Loving Cajun Style"
Released October 1975
Format 7" single
Genre Tejano music
Length 3:35
Label Dot
Writer(s) Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
Producer(s) Huey P. Meaux
Freddy Fender singles chronology
"Since I Met You Baby"
(1975)
"Secret Love"
(1975)
"The Wild Side of Life"
(1976)

"Secret Love" is a song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for Calamity Jane, a 1953 musical film in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role. Ranked as a #1 hit for Day on both the Billboard and Cash Box, the song also afforded Day a #1 hit in the United States. "Secret Love" has subsequently been recorded by a wide range of artists, becoming a C&W hit firstly for Slim Whitman and later for Freddy Fender, with the song also becoming an R&B hit for Billy Stewart, whose version also reached the Top 40 as did Freddy Fender's. In the U.K., "Secret Love" would become the career record of Kathy Kirby via her 1963 remake of the song. The melody is based on the opening theme of Schubert's A-major piano sonata, D.664.

Doris Day first heard "Secret Love" when its co-writer Sammy Fain visited the singer's home and played it for her, Day being so moved by the song that she'd recall her reaction as being: "I just about fell apart". Day recorded the song 5 August 1953 in a session at the Warner Bros. Recording Studio (Burbank), overseen by Warner Bros. musical director Ray Heindorf. The day of the recording session for "Secret Love" Day had done vocal exercises at her home, then about noon — the session being scheduled for 1 p.m. — had set out on her bicycle to the studio. Heindorf had rehearsed the studio orchestra prior to Day's reaching the studio; upon her arrival, Heindorf suggested Day do a practice run-through with the orchestra prior to recording any takes, but acquiesced to Day's request that her first performance with the orchestra be recorded. Day recalls, "When I got there I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time ... That was the first and only take we did" — "When I 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.'"


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