b. c. 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA, d. February 1999. Miss Toni Fisher is best remembered for her one US Top 10 hit, ‘The Big Hurt', which reached number 3 in November 1959, but little is known of her background. She was a torch singer who recorded the Wayne Shanklin-penned hit for the small Signet label, backed by Heine Beau And His Orchestra. The single featured a ‘phasing' effect that would become popular on psychedelic recordings nearly a decade later, and Fisher's album, named after the hit single, was notable in that it was an early stereo recording. Fisher had tw...