"When I first heard `Secret Love` I almost fainted, it was so
beautiful.... When we finally got around to doing the
prerecording, Ray Heindorf, the musical director at Warner`s,
said he`d get the musicians in about 12:30 so they could
rehearse. That morning I did my vocal warm up, then jumped on my
bike and rode over to Warner`s (we lived in Toluca Lake at the
time, which was just minutes from the studio). When I got there,
I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time. When I`d
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.` That was the first and only take we did."