Toni Fisher - 'The Big Hurt' - 1959 45rpm video free download

VideoByPatrick

Even as a young kid, this tune shook-me !

Trev Mac

cool video

Robert Cummings

Wow -Lots of memories here as 'everyone' was trying to figure out this 'new sound' when it came out . . and as for Dick Biondi WKBW Buffalo,NY - he was one of the most listened to DJ's of the day and a name I haven't heard in . . well you get the idea Guess I'm giving away my age but memories are memories - and great DJ's like great songs will always bring us back to the Good ol' Days . . . .

Wally Toynbee

I'd totally forgotten about this tinny chip monks type version. And I'd never made the connection before with the classy grown up version by the unparalleled Scott Walker. For those with taste and discernment I suggest you try it out.

Sheryl Beck

The phasing effect was discovered by Les Paul in the late 1940's. He was using acetate disks to record because tape recording was still in its infancy and the turntables could easily be sped up or slowed down by minute amounts using DC motors. "Mammy's Boogie" was released in 1953 and "Nuevo Laredo" in 1955, some six years before "The Big Hurt." The "swoosh" or drainpipe effect is not as pronounced likely due to Les Paul's copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy technique in making his early sound on sound recordings.Another aside: Supposedly The engineers at Gold Star swore themselves to secrecy about the derivation of the sound and when an engineer would figure it out, he/she could only use it for short segments or advertisements because it was very difficult to control. Phasing became part of the rock scene with English groups, the Beatles and the Small Faces.

LUH1214

FYI, Toni Fisher was not married to Wayne Shanklin. Shanklin was married to Victoria Hamway - his secretary. My source is Wikipedia on the talk page of Fisher's article there.

Patton Gunn

*Here's a Gem from the past that I loved as a kid.*

curluwurlu

Some info on the phasing effect from an interview with engineer Larry Levine:Wayne Shanklin, wrote another hit song —Toni Fisher, singing “The Big Hurt”—which was the first use of phasing on a record... though it wasn’t intentional phasing. [laughs] Stan had made mono and stereo mixes—at that point, we only had two-track and mono anyway—and Wayne liked the mono mix, but he felt that Toni’s voice wasn’t out quite far enough, so the next day he asked me to make a tape copy and to run the two mixes together in order to double the sound of her voice. I explained to him that that wouldn’t work, because the two tape machines wouldn’t stay in sync, but he insisted that I try it anyway. So I did—I lined up the two tapes and started the two machines simultaneously... and it stayed together, pretty much, for the first eight bars, and then one went out of phase with the other. It just happened to be at a point where the strings went up in the air and disappeared and then came back after the null point. My reaction was, “See, I told you it wouldn’t work,” but he was falling on the floor, saying, “Wow—can you make that happen in other places?” So I figured out which tape was moving a little bit ahead and I started it slightly later so it would catch up. In the end I made about six edits. It ended up being a big hit record when it was released back in 1959, and people were trying to guess where it was made—a lot of disk jockeys were talking about it on the air, wondering if it was made at an airport with a big jet passing by. So it wasn’t something intentional to start with, but, like many innovations, pure luck."

Ben Garcia

A groundbreaking song and one that I fondly remember when it was first on the charts. Many DJ's didn't quite know what to say about it so just let it play without comment; but it was definitely requested heavily on San Francisco bay area stations.

steadfastcoward

I'd like to state that the deck was NOT 'sat on' as somebody suggested...the reel would not only STOP but get BENT.The most interesting thing about the song is that the vocal track is not as flanged as the rest of the song, which suggests that the mistake that created the effect happened on the instrumental/backup vocal dubbing and was repeated to some degree when Toni laid down the lead vocal. It DOES have some mixing with the flanged backup which might be mixing artifacts artificially *ha ha for a completely non-natural recording* affecting normal vocals.

nandofigueira2005

0:15 is Dodie Stevens not toni fisher

Rowby Goren

What a powerful voice! Yes, the "electronic effects" are excellent and ground breaking -- but Toni's voice -- amazing. ...Rowby

Frank Stallone Official

This song brings back so many memories of my childhood 

blachoo1

Why didn't Hall of Famer Frank Thomas give credit to her at his induction ceremony?

miqueponce1123

A greatest one everFrom Mexico

joyce white

wonderful

Jon Doeringer

(I can't reply to the 'one hit wonder' comment)... but whenever I hear that, I think it's one more hit than most of us will ever have!

Jason1920

Almost EVERY video... YouTube seems to think this is "You Make Me Feel Brand New"! LOL!

88jolzenrocket

The best version ever! My day was made when I found the original in a cache of records at a Minneapolis Salvation Army back in '72

JPPT1974

Love this song. A classic song there!

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