Miss Toni Fisher - The Big Hurt - Nice Late 50's Pop

I loved this song since the first time I heard it. It was playing on a somewhat distant AM radio station and I remember hearing the weird phasing effect and thinking something was up with the station's signal. This copy features a somewhat odd color combination of grey and maroon.. I've seen many copies on the white and red label but this is the only I have seen with this color combo.

[Snooooooooooopy]

A classic all the way. I will never tire of hearing this record. Recorded the year I was born!

[waynecallaghan]

My little brothers favorite song. He was born in 1954, so it was love at first hear. He's gone now. I miss him

[sauquoit]

On this day in 1959 {Nov. 16th} Miss Toni Fisher's "The Big Hurt" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #3 & spent 17 weeks on the Top 100...
It was written by Miss Fisher's husband, Wayne Shanklin, who also wrote Frankie Laine's 1951 #2 hit record "Jezebel"
In 1966 "The Big Hurt" was covered by Del Shannon, his version reached #94 on the Top 100
Toni Fisher passed away on February 12th, 1999 at age 68
RIP Miss Fisher, Mr. Shanklin {1916-1970}, & Mr. Shannon {1934-1990}

[Thesttoxicavenger]

It doesn't matter when it was done, how it was done, where it was done, or who did it.  The only thing that mattesr is how you FEEL when you hear the song, and what memories it evokes in your heart and mind.  I was in the midst of teenage angst and this song alluded to those feelings and also showed me that there would be better days ahead.  That I misinterpreted that message is my fault, but I still love the song.

[PJDooWop]

Me too.. A shame the radio stations love to ignore this excellent song

[cynthia]

Boy this sure has been lost, out of my life,
So glad you found it ! A keeper for sure
Amazing,
Thanks pj

[Mrfunkyfilmore]

This has always been a favorite of mine. I HAVE the SAME copy that you posted here. I agree with you also. I've only seen the red and white copies until I picked up THIS copy.

[LarryWaldbillig]

It was the very first record ever to use flanging (phasing) effects (which became standard on many late '60s and '70s rock albums)

Shortwave and some distant AM stations at night themselves have a similar effect in their signals.

Commercial radio today has deluded themselves into trying to attract younger and younger audiences, thinking this will keep the medium relevant in the mobile streaming age when in reality, they're throwing away the only audience demographic that still cares about it.

[PJDooWop]

Amazing how so many beautiful songs get lost in the cracks

[LarryWaldbillig]

Thank you :) As a former radio jock/programmer, I get chided a lot for being so "old fashioned". The way I see it, the writing is on the wall and if they can't see it, it's nobody else's fault they're making themselves irrelevant. I found better things to do than suffer Cheers!

[GothicMod]

Fantastic 'Star Trek' styled fade; Perfect...;)

[cynthia]

Beautiful,
So Long since I have heard this song
Oh yes indeed, Love it

[jonnightrider]

Recorded at Gold Star Studios on Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles. Engineer Stan Ross is generally credited with having accidentally come up with this phasing effect in an attempt to duplicate Fisher's vocal. Despite the mistake, they all thought it helped to "make" the record and so the effect was kept. As others have pointed out here, some future recordings used the effect creatively and on purpose!!!

[recordmancharlie]

Haven't heard this since my pre teen years . It brings back memories of when my first girlfriend went to some other schmuck (football big turd) I felt demolished . And about that time here came this song . How poignant, how well timed . It only made me feel more like going after that big turd with a baseball bat for taking "my girl" .Oh well, I finally got over it . That's when I started listening to the radio and not too soon after, I started collecting records . been at it ever since .

[Savadorason]

Luv this song, w/ an int'rsting sound.

[ssrszl]

Phasing was used in Itchycoo Park by Small Faces and Sky Pilot by The Animals, 60's -70's. The modern day stations cater to very juvenile audiences and the electro sound that is simple and repetitive and annoying with no actual talent. The 50's through 809's rock and some of the 90's.

[RockinProfessor]

There have been other versions of this Masterpiece recorded and released in the years after this one, but NONE are even remotely as

[wexfradio]

...at WEXF radio in 1959...there was a story that this was the first song sent over the transatlantic cable...enhancing the superheterodyne...

[Iridium]

Nah. Tom Clay had long been doing this stuff on WJBK. The signal goes on to the record head and then a couple of inches later comes off the playback head. Tom said that he used two tone arms on a record player, a bald faced lie. He stuck to that story at KBLA.