"Thunder Island" | ||||
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Single by Jay Ferguson | ||||
from the album Thunder Island | ||||
B-side | "Magic Moment" | |||
Released | October 1977 | |||
Format | 7" | |||
Genre | Soft rock | |||
Length | 4:00 | |||
Label | Asylum | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jay Ferguson | |||
Jay Ferguson singles chronology | ||||
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"Thunder Island" is the lead single off of the album Thunder Island by American musician Jay Ferguson. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978. Despite the song's high position on the music charts, the song today is rarely heard on classic rock radio stations, although it does receive regular air play on SiriusXM's special channel, Yacht Rock. The recording features Joe Walsh on guitar.
As this was Ferguson's highest-ranking song on the charts, he is sometimes tagged a one-hit wonder - however, he achieved an additional hit with the song "Shakedown Cruise" in 1979, which reached #31 on the Hot 100.
It appears in the 2013 film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and the 2004 film Miracle.