Doris said - " When I first heard Sammy Fain sing that song for me in my house in Toluca Lake, I just about fell apart. I loved the whole score so much I was just dancing around the house"

The single topped the charts in the US for 4 weeks. It reached number one on both Billboard and Cash Box, becoming a million selling record. And won the Academy Award for Best Original song. It placed on the UK charts for an astounding 29 weeks, and was instrumental in making Day a huge star in England.

Doris Day recorded Secret Love on August 5, 1953.

Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster - Secret Love
Victor Allen Vocal Chorus
Ray Heindorf - leader
Frank Comstock - arranger
Victor Allen - contractor
Hilmer Timbrell - guitar
Arthur Bernstein,Paul Gregory - bass
George Beebe, Charles Calkins - drums
D Gail Laughton - harp
Norma Drury (Boleslawsky), David Klatzkin - piano
Ray Nowlin, Ernest Warren - bassoon
Richard Anderson, Jose Casillas, Percy Nichols - clarinet
Robert Bladet, James Briggs, Leonard Posella - flute
William Hinshaw, George Hoffman, George Hyde - horn
Lilliane Lhoest, Lloyd Rathburn - oboe
Teddy Krise, Les Robinson - saxophone
Hoyt Bohannon,Charles Cowpland, Frank A Sullivan - trombone
Robert Fowler, Alfred Harris, Pincus Savitt, Lawrence Sullivan - trumpet
Maurice "Morey" Amsterdam, Kolia Levienne, Alexander Reisman,
Eleanor Slatkin - cello
Donald A Cole, Rubin Decker, William Hymanson, Maurice Keltz - viola
David Berman, Baldassare Ferlazzo, Noumi Fischer, Howard Griffin, Rene Hemery,
Joseph Livoti, Daniel Lube, Hillard Lube, Jerome Reisler, Sam Ross, Hans Wippler, Harry Zagon - violin

Recorded at Warner Bros. Studio, 4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank, CA.