Secret Love

Album

Single

Label

Columbia Records

Genre

Stage & Screen

Media Type

78

Composer(s)

Sammy Fain;Paul Francis Webster

Entered Chart

Jan 9, 1954

Peak Date

Mar 6, 1954

Released

October 9, 1953

Recorded

August 5, 1953Studio Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank

Catalog #

Columbia 40108

B-Side

The Deadwood Stage

This was used in the film Calamity Jane, in which Doris Day played the title lead opposite the late Howard Keel. It won the 1953 Academy Award winner for Best Song. Doris Day recorded this in less than 15 minutes. The liner notes from her A Day at the Movies compilation tell how she rode her bicycle to the studio, did one take (that was with the full live orchestra in those days) and the musical director was "grinning from ear to ear." >>

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'm 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

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