Secret Love (Doris Day song)

Secret Love is a song by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster ( text ), which published in 1953 and a number -one hit for Doris Day was.

Fain and Webster wrote Secret Love for the comedic and musical Western Heavy Colts in tender hand (Original Title: Calamity Jane, 1953, Director: David Butler), with Doris Day (as Calamity Jane ) and Howard Keel in the lead roles. Secret Love is presented in the film by Doris Day.

The song received a 1954 Academy Award for Best Song. The first two lines of the song are as follows: Once I had a secret love / That lived within the heart of me.

The Fain / Webster ballad Secret Love ' was one of the greatest top hits of the decade. With the record (Columbia 4-40108 ) came Doris Day 1954 in the United States both at # 1 on the Billboard and the Cash Box charts. In the UK the song was in April 1954 a week on # 1 on the UK singles chart ( April 10 to April 16 ), a total of 9 weeks. Numerous cover versions of Secret Love were played in the 1950s, including Ray Anthony ( Capitol 2678 ), Slim Whitman (Imperial 8223, # 2) The Moonglows (Chance 68) Gordon Jenkins (Brunswick 05285 ), Frank Sinatra, Spike Jones, The Orioles ( Jubilee), Lita Roza ( Decca F10.277 ) and Billy Eckstine. In the field of jazz took in this time Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Eddie Heywood, George Duke, Rusty Bryant, Ralph Flanagan, Caterina Valente, Ahmad Jamal, Jonah Jones, Ted Heath, Dave McKenna, Neal Hefti, Johnny Hammond Smith, Count Basie and Maynard Ferguson on the song, which also made ​​him a jazz standard; Tom Lord lists 452 versions of the song.

In the 1960s, attended among others George Bean ( Decca F11.762 ), Freddy Fender (ABC Dot 17585 ), Connie Francis, Richard " Groove" Holmes ( Pacific Jazz 88130 ), Kathy Kirby ( Decca F11.759 ) Billy Stewart ( Chess 1978), Andy Williams, the Chiffons and Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye song on.

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