29 January 1954. Kathy Kirby version In 1963, Kathy Kirby remade "Secret Love", released as a single in October 1963. The track, with musical direction by Charles Blackwell, Jimmy Page on guitar, and production by Kirby's regular collaborator Peter Sullivan, afforded Kirby her UK career record with a number 4 UK chart peak that December. "Secret Love" was also a hit in Australia reaching number 2. Kirby recalled: "[when] 'Secret Love'...was suggested by my recording manager Peter Sullivan[,] I said 'But that's already been done beautifully by Doris Day!' Peter came up with a completely different version, up-tempo and starting with the middle eight. We took a chance on it and decided that if it didn't chart it would at least be a prestige number, so we were thrilled when it sold over half a million copies in three weeks". "Secret Love" provided the title for a jukebox musical depicting Kirby's life story, which following its debut run at the Leeds City Varieties commencing 9 May 2008 played venues throughout the UK into 2009. Freddy Fender version 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. Other versions Spike Jones did a novelty version of the song .(1955) John Serry Sr. arranged and recorded the song with his ensemble for his 1956 album Squeeze Play, on Dot Records (DLP-3024), and on Chicago Musette - John Serry et son Accordén, on Versailles Records (90 M 178) in 1958. Count Basie – Dance Along with Basie (1959) Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (1964) Billy Stewart – (1966), #29 Pop, #11 R&B Art Blakey with Keith Jarrett – Buttercorn Lady (1966) Al Cohn – Rifftide (1987) Billy Eckstine – Once More with Feeling (1960) Dexter Gordon with Hampton Hawes – Blues a la Suisse (1973)