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"Secret Love" is a Pop song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for ''Calamity Jane'' the 1953 movie musical 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 UK. "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 UK "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 version== 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 pm - 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 - "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' "〔 The single of "Secret Love" was released 9 October 1953 - three weeks prior to the premiere of the ''Calamity Jane'' film - by Columbia Records as catalog number 40108.:〔 〕 the single entered the Top 20 bestselling singles survey - at #17 - in the ''Billboard'' magazine dated 9 January 1954 with the single reaching #1 on the Top 20 survey for the week ending 17 February 1954, the week in which the song's Academy Award nomination for Best Song had been announced, the nominations for the 26th Academy Awards for the film year 1953 having been announced 15 February 1954. Day's "Secret Love", having spent three weeks ranked as the #1 bestselling single by ''Billboard'', was still ranked as the #4 bestseller the week of the 26th Academy Awards broadcast which occurred 25 March 1954: however Day herself declined to perform the nominated - and ultimately victorious - "Secret Love" at the Academy Awards ceremony, later stating: "When they asked me to sing 'Secret Love' on Academy Awards night I told them I couldn't - not in front of those people".〔 (Ann Blyth performed "Secret Love" at the Academy Awards ceremony.) Day's refusal to perform "Secret Love" on the Academy Awards broadcast resulted in the Hollywood Women's Press Club "honoring" the singer with the Sour Apple Award as the most uncooperative celebrity of 1953: this put-down occasioned a bout of depression which kept Day virtually housebound for several weeks, and which Day eventually had to qualify her Christian Science outlook to deal with, consulting with a medical practitioner.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Secret Love (Doris Day song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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