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Secret Love
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Doris Day
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- written by Sammy Fain and Paul-Francis Webster
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- written for the movie "Calamity Jane"
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- #1 song of January 1954
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- Tommy Edwards (#28, 1954); Ray Anthony (#29, 1954);
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- Billy Stewart (#29, 1966);
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- Freddy Fender (#20, 1975)
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Once I had a secret love
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That lived within the heart of me
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All too soon my secret love
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Became impatient to be free
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So I told a friendly star
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The way that dreamers often do
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Just how wonderful you are
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And why I am so in love with you
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Now I shout it from the highest hills
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Even told the golden daffodils
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At last my heart's an open door
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And my secret love's no secret anymore
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"When I first heard 'Secret Love' I almost fainted, it was so
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beautiful.... When we finally got around to doing the
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prerecording, Ray Heindorf, the musical director at Warner's,
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said he'd get the musicians in about 12:30 so they could
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rehearse. That morning I did my vocal warm up, then jumped on my
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bike and rode over to Warner's (we lived in Toluca Lake at the
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time, which was just minutes from the studio). When I got there,
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I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time. When I'd
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finished, Ray called me into the sound booth, grinning from ear
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to ear, and said, 'That's it. You're never going to do it
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better.' That was the first and only take we did."
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- Doris Day
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Secret Love
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| Freddie Fender |
