(My) Secret Love - Sammy Fain-Paul Francis Webster (Bobby Sherwood-Mitchell Parish)

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I never noticed that entry in the 1300. There is a work by Roger Vogel called "My Secret Love" which is completely different, but the chord changes on the iRP chart are for Sammy Fain's composition.

Thanks. In checking my mistake, I found something strange:

Yes, there is a composition called My Secret Love, by Roger Vogel, which is not a pop or jazz tune, but the setting of a poem for women's chorus, and the iReal Pro changes to My Secret Love are for a song by Sherwood and Parish (not Sammy Fain).

But it's even stranger:

The tune called simply Secret Love is by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. But My Secret Love is by Bobby Sherwood and Mitchell Parish, and it's the same tune. Except for very minor differences in the opening chords, they are identical, with the same melody and the same harmonic structure.

They can be found on YouTube in many places. Here are just samples:

Secret Love

My Secret Love

My Secret Love by Roger Vogel

As you'll see, except for some extra chords in the A section of Secret Love, on iReal Pro it's the same as My Secret Love.

No wonder I was confused.

So not only did iReal Pro assign Roger Vogel's name incorrectly, but there seems to be a difference over who actually wrote the pop/jazz tune (My) Secret Love. Yet I haven't seen anything on the Web about a disputed copyright.

Cheers,
Jer

P.S. I also found that the Jamey Aebersold play-along version of the tune is My Secret Love, attributed to Parish and Sherwood, which uses the same changes as IRealpro's Secret Love. So it's not only me who is confused.