The Big Hurt is a pop song, that was a hit for Toni Fisher (billed as Miss Toni Fisher) in 1959. The song was written by her husband, Wayne Shanklin. The song went to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart in the United States.The Big Hurt is notable because it featured phasing effects which at that time were rare in popular music; DJ Dick Biondi on WKBW would introduce the record as Toni Fishers weird one. American music industry veterans David S. Gold and Stan Ross, founders of the renowned Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, claim that 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, theflanging effect made this record sound like a distant shortwave broadcast. Disc jockey Wink Martindale commented that the record label billed the singer as Miss Toni Fisher because of her powerful voice, which is consistently audible over the phasing, the instruments, and the background noise, to confirm to the listener that the singer is indeed a woman. Fisher died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on 12 February 1999. A different source indicates her death was rather in Hyrum, Utah. - wikipedia
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