Toni Fisher - The Big Hurt

1959 song that went to # 3 in the US and # 30 in the UK. The song was covered numerous times in the mid-to-late-1960s by well known artists of the day. Fisher was sometimes billed as 'Miss Toni Fisher'.

[calvinjackson]

"Now it begins, now that you're gone.
Needles and pins,
Twilight till dawn."
My favorite line that conveys the concept of total continuous pain and hurt in intensity and duration.

[markalles]

I think it was ahead of its time .... it still has an appeal.

[thoms]

The first 45 I ever owned. Got it for my 10 th birthday.

[johnzaragoza]

ALWAYS WAS 7 ALWAYS WILL be a big hit, GREAT arrangment, great song. Loved it since I was a kid and still do.

[stevenjaz]

The greatest popular tune about angst, pain and true self pity of its era. The “phasing” adds a sense of foreboding. It's a masterpiece.

[stevecarter]

Here from a comment on a HAINBACH video about tape flanging. I feel like there's a whole world here to discover

[tommytitmouse]

SUPERB Song, SUPERB Singer, they don`t make them like this any longer.

[AlanHenry-hy]

I might have first heard this when I was 5, in Fort Knox, Kentucky, on a jukebox at the Non
Commissioned Officers club on the jukebox. The bass stuck in my head for years. I remember that's where I heard "The Happy Organ". Think about speeding down a highway in a new '59 Buick with that playing.

[manzilmusic]

I discovered this on Coast to Coast AM radio show with Art Bell years ago. Love this song!

[saca]

Oh how I remember hearing this song on the radio, in 1959 I was 8 years old and my older brother would listen to the radio....Best of memories, lost time gone for ever...

[jamesnorwood]

I was 9 or 10 and the echo chamber blew my mind. Memorable tune; well sung by Toni Fisher.

[Carlparishhonda]

This song reminds me of the time i purchased my first 6 transistor pocket radio.

[andrewpetik]

I remember dancing to this song with a young woman I worked with in the 1980s. I was a VERY 'late bloomer'.... shy and awkward. She was kind and in trying to get me 'out of my shell' would haul me out to these oldies clubs with her girl friends on the weekends.

I stumbled upon this song by accident. I am married 30 years now and all but forgotten about those days.

I went to your YouTube channel and subscribed because I found a lot of wonderful songs that I look forward to listening to.

It is the holiday season and I hope and pray that you and all here enjoy God's Blessings of Peace, provision, and Joy.

🙏✌️🙏

[julieannkuster]

THAT SONGS BRINGS ME TOO TEARS FAST!! MY DADDY USE TOO SING THAT WHEN I WAS LITTLE GIRL GROWING UP HE RAISED ME WHEN MY MOM JUST TOOK OFF I WAS 2 YRS OLD BARLY 54..MY DADDY WAS A GREAT SINGER BEAUTIFUL VOICE CARING MAN TOTALLY GOOD HEARTED MAN AN SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL I REMEMBER HER WHEN SAW HER WITH ANOTHER MAN YRS LATER SHE WAS A CHEATER BROKE MY DADDYS HEART😢💔SO BAD..NOW IM ALONE MYSELF A WIDOW AT 60 NOW 68 ALONE STILL. AN THIS SONG MAKES ME SOB..👱‍♀️🐶🐶💔😢🙏❤🤗🧸🏞

[mrhs]

I can only imagine how mindblowing this song would have been when it first game out, when nobody had ever heard of flanging before.

[jeffmitchell-nw]

Heard on Dallas' Mighty 1190 KLIF. Just as good now as then. Makes me feel 7 yrs old again. A true masterpiece.

[SAMUEL-bvo]

I turned 9 years-old when this was a hit. I loved it then and still do. Ah

[MustangSam]

Remember loving this as a kid. Sounds so great!

[justajo]

Always loved the "phasing" of this record. Really carried me away!

[ornjonasson]

Great song.
"The Big Hurt" was the first commercial recording to feature a technique (or effect) now known as flanging. This "jet plane-like" sound effect may also be familiar to those who have listened to long-distance shortwave radio music broadcasts. (In radio, this effect was the result of multipath interference and varying propagation times.) To some, the flanging effect made this record sound like a distant shortwave broadcast.