Balloon Farm - A Question Of Temperature - 1968 |
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The Balloon Farm was a musical act from New Jersey, which took its name from a New York City nightclub. It is best known for its sole hit song, "A Question of Temperature," which made the Billboard charts in February 1968, peaking in the top 40. The members of the band, Mike Appel, Don Henny, Ed Schnug and Jay Saks,first played together in a band called Adam, which made one single for the Mala label entitled "Eve" in 1966. Adam's gimmick was that all four members of the group adopted the first name "Adam". They were probably not the first to use this idea, but they were far from the last; a similar ruse would be used by other bands, including The Donnas. After adopting the name The Balloon Farm, the band's first single was "A Question of Temperature," which was released late in 1967.First pressings of the 45 rpm single contained a typographical error that rendered the title as "A Question of Tempature". Another typo, which was never fixed, was the name of the song's producer, Peter Schekeryk, which was spelled "Shekeryk", even after the title of the song was fixed. The single reached a peak of #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, and in the years since has become something of a garage-psych classic. It has appeared on numerous thematic compilations, including the Rhino box set, Nuggets; it was recorded by Brownsville Station on its 1973 album Yeah, the same LP on which "Smokin' in the Boy's Room" appears; and it was recorded by several garage bands in the 1980s, including Mindflux and Human Sexual Response. [1] |
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