Freddy Fender – Secret Love, is a song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for Calamity Jane, a 1953 musical film in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role. Ranked as a number 1 hit for Day on both the Billboard and Cash Box, the song also afforded Day a number 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.
Freddy Fender remade “Secret Love” for his 1975 album release Are You Ready For Freddy? recorded in the summer of 1975 at the SugarHill Recording Studios (Houston): issued as a single in October 1975 “Secret Love” afforded Fender the third of his four number 1 hits on the Billboard C&W, also crossing-over to the U.S. Top 40 of Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 20. (Fender would score one subsequent Top 40 hit, his fourth C&W number 1 hit “You’ll Lose a Good Thing” crossing-over to the number 32 on the Hot 100.) Fender remade “Secret Love” for his 2002 album ”La Musica de Baldemar Huerta.
Freddy Fender – Secret Love
from the album Are You Ready For Freddy?
B-side “Loving Cajun Style”
Released October 1975
Genre Tejano music
Length 3:35
Label Dot
Songwriter(s) Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
Producer(s) Huey P. Meaux
COUNTRYPEDIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwNVfFwAJdY
Freddy Fender – Secret Love Lyrics
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 is 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 is no secret anymore
GENIUS
BUY SINGLE
Slim Whitman – Secret Love