Doris Day Secret Love Lyrics

Secret Love Lyrics

Secret Love
Doris 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 love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret
love
Became impatient to be free

So I told a friendly star
The way
that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I am so in love
with you

Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden
daffodils

At last my heart's an open door
And my secret love's no
secret
anymore

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"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