"Thunder Island" - Jay Ferguson's 1970's "one hit wonder" [View all]
The lyrics evoked fantasies of the blonde saxophonist (formerly clarinet player) with whom I was enamored at the time, at the age of 15...
We were both in 'advanced band' in what used to be known as 'Junior High school', grades 7 through 9 in the 1970's...
We were never together as boyfriend and girlfriend, which I would have wanted, BUT
on a bus trip to Toronto and back in early 1978, for a marching band competition,
I managed to get the seat next to her on the way back home,
and she fell asleep with her head on my shoulder, and I was in heaven!
This was the climactic moment, after having been enamored with her for a year and a half, in band class...
I only looked at her for all that time (is a wonder nobody ever figured that out, but it was a big room... I was a drummer
in advanced band, but also a pianist and took a semester of beginning trumpet).
(and later she wrote in my yearbook, "you're a nice guy to sleep with, (on the bus to Toronto)!" )
In my first semester of high school, I dropped out of band in favor of journalism
as my only allowed elective in 10th grade, so I didn't have to look at her every day,
and that phase of my life passed--- but I still love this song. Pardon my recollections...
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