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1966 single by Napoleon Fourteen

"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"
TheyreComingToTakeMeAway-singlecover.jpg

Cover of the Rhino Records co. re-issue of the WB album
Single by Napoleon XIV
B-side "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT"
Released July 1966
Recorded 1966
Genre Novelty, comedy
Length 2:10
Label Warner Bros. #5831
Songwriter(s) N. Bonaparte (Jerry Samuels)
Producer(s) A Jepalana Production
Napoleon XIV singles chronology
"They're Coming to Accept Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"
(1966) 		"I'thousand in Beloved with My Little Red Tricycle"
(1966)
B-side
Label of the original 7-inch issue

Label of the original vii-inch result
Audio
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" on YouTube
"!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT" on YouTube

"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" is a 1966 novelty tape written and performed past Jerry Samuels (billed as Napoleon Xiv), and released on Warner Bros. Records. The song became an instant success in the United States, peaking at No. three on the Billboard Hot 100 popular music singles nautical chart on August 13,[one] No. ane on the Cash Box Summit 100 charts, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.[two]

Lyrics [edit]

The lyrics announced to describe a man's mental anguish after a break-upward with a adult female, and his descent into madness leading to his committal to a "funny farm" (slang for a mental hospital). Information technology'southward finally revealed in the terminal line of the third verse that he'south not being driven insane by the loss of a adult female — just by a runaway dog: "They'll find you yet and when they practice, they'll put yous in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt". According to Samuels, he was concerned the record could be seen as making fun of the mentally sick, and intentionally added that line so "you realize that the person is talking about a dog having left him, not a human". Said Samuels, "I felt it would crusade some people to say 'Well, it's alright.' And it did. Information technology worked."[iii] [4]

Song structure and technical background [edit]

The song is driven past a snare drum, tambourine and hand clap rhythm. The vocal is spoken rhythmically rather than sung melodically, while the vocal pitch rises and falls at key points to create an unusual glissando outcome, augmented by the sound of wailing sirens.[4] [5]

According to Samuels, the vocal glissando was achieved past manipulating the recording speed of his song track, a multitrack variation on the technique used by Ross Bagdasarian in creating the original Chipmunks novelty songs.[4] At the time the song was written, Samuels was working every bit a recording engineer at Associated Recording Studios in New York. Samuels discovered he could apply a Variable Frequency Oscillator to modify the 60 Hz frequency of the hysteresis motor of a multitrack record recording car in order to raise or lower the pitch of a voice without irresolute the tempo. This gave him the idea for a song based on the rhythm of the old Scottish tune "The Campbells Are Coming". After recording a percussion track at the standard speed, he played it back through headphones while recording the vocal on another rails and gradually adjusting the VFO and the stride of his vocals to produce the desired upshot. Some tracks were treated with intermittent tape-based echo effects created by an Echoplex. Samuels as well layered in siren effects that gradually rose and barbarous with the pitch of his vocals.[6] [5]

B-side [edit]

Standing the theme of insanity, the flip or B-side of the unmarried was simply the A-side played in opposite, and given the title "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT" (or "Ha-Haaa! Abroad, Me Take to Coming They're") and the performer billed as "XIV NAPOLEON". Most of the label affixed to the B-side was a mirror image of the front characterization (equally opposed to simply being spelled astern), including the letters in the "WB" shield logo. Only the label name, disclaimer, and record and recording master numbers were kept forrad. The reverse version of the song is non included on the original Warner Bros. album, although the title is shown on the front cover, where the title is really spelled astern.[vii]

In his Book of Rock Lists, rock music critic Dave Marsh calls the B-side the "near obnoxious vocal always to announced in a jukebox", maxim the recording one time "cleared out a diner of forty patrons in two minutes flat."[8]

Airplay [edit]

The song charted at No. three on the Billboard Hot 100 charts on August 13,[ane] No. 1 on the Cash Box Pinnacle 100 charts on July thirty, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.[2]

Within weeks of its release, WABC and WMCA stopped playing the song in response to complaints about its content from mental health professionals and organizations.[9] The BBC also refused to play the song.

Warner Bros. Records reissued the original single (#7726) in 1973. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 87 but stalled at No. 101 at the Week Ahead charts which was an addition to the Cash Box Summit 100 charts. The reissue featured the "Burbank/palm trees" label. Every bit with the original release, the labels for the reissue'due south B-side also included mirror-imaged impress except for the disclaimer, tape catalog, and track master numbers. The "Burbank" motto at the top of the characterization was besides kept frontward as well as the "WB" messages in the shield logo, which had been printed in contrary on the originals.[10]

Nautical chart history [edit]

Chart (1966) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[11] 40
Canada RPM Elevation Singles[12] 2
UK[xiii] 4
U.Due south. Billboard Hot 100[2] 3
U.South. Cash Box Top 100[14] 1

Sequels [edit]

"I'm Happy They Took You Abroad, Ha-Haaa!" was recorded by CBS Radio Mystery Theater bandage member Bryna Raeburn, credited as "Josephine XV", and was the closing track on Side Two of the 1966 Warner Bros. anthology. (Josephine was the proper name of the spouse of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.)

In 1966, "They Took Yous Away, I'thousand Glad, I'k Glad" appeared on These Are the Hits, Y'all Silly Savages by Teddy & Darrel [xv]

A variation of "They're Coming to Have Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was also washed by Jerry Samuels, from that same album entitled Where the Nuts hunt the Squirrels, where Samuels, towards the end of the rail, repeats the line: "THEY'RE TRYING TO Drive ME SANE!!! HA HA," before the song's fade, in a fast-tracked higher vocalisation.[sixteen]

In 1966, KRLA DJ "Emperor Bob" Hudson recorded a similarly styled song titled I'k Normal, including the lines "They came and took my blood brother away/The men in white picked him up yesterday/Simply they'll never come take me away, 'cos I'm O.One thousand./I'grand normal." Some other line in the song was: "I eat my peas with a tuning fork." The record was credited simply to "The Emperor".[17]

In 1988, Samuels wrote and recorded "They're Coming To Get Me Once again, Ha Haaa!", a sequel to the original record. It was included on a single two years after the Collectables label. Recorded with the same shell as the original, and portraying Napoleon XIV relapsing to madness afterward being released from an insane aviary, it never charted, and was combined with the original 1966 recording on side A. (Both sequels are included on Samuels' 1996 Second Coming album.) In the song, the vocalist is released from the insane asylum, now securely resentful of his time in the "loony bin" and "prophylactic room" and vowing to seek revenge on an ape by swinging it by its tail; he is all the same not fully cured of his insanity and is paranoid that he will exist re-institutionalized. Towards the stop of the song, he relapses into the "funny farm" and "happy home"—until when reality sinks in, he cries out at a fast tracked double voice with the words: "OH NO!!!" before the beat ends with a door slam, indicating that he has been locked up in the insane asylum.[18]

The recording appeared on disk releases by Dr. Demento in 1975 as part of Dr. Demento's Delights,[19] [xx] then in subsequent Dr. Demento LP records released in 1985, 1988 and 1991.

Embrace versions [edit]

Many encompass versions of the song were recorded post-obit the vocal's release in 1966. Kim Fowley released a cover of the song as his second single, later on "The Trip".[21] [22]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Volume of Top twoscore Hits, Billboard Publications, 1983.
  2. ^ a b c Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  3. ^ Richard Crouse (26 Apr 2000). Big Bang, Baby: Stone Trivia. Dundurn. pp. 91–. ISBN978-0-88882-219-2.
  4. ^ a b c Richard Crouse (15 March 2012). Who Wrote The Book Of Love?. Doubleday Canada. pp. seventy–. ISBN978-0-385-67442-three.
  5. ^ a b "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa by Napoleon XIV". SongFacts.com. SongFacts. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  6. ^ Walter Everett (nine December 2008). The Foundations of Rock: From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". Oxford University Press. pp. 485–. ISBN978-0-19-029497-seven.
  7. ^ Paul Simpson (2003). The Crude Guide to Cult Pop. Rough Guides. pp. 23–. ISBN978-1-84353-229-three.
  8. ^ Marsh, Dave; Stein, Kevin (1981). The Book of Rock Lists. Dell Publishing. p. eighty. ISBN978-0-440-57580-1.
  9. ^ "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! Napoleon Fourteen". Songfacts.com. Songfacts. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  10. ^ Ace Collins (1998). Disco Duck and Other Adventures in Novelty Music . Berkley Boulevard Books. pp. 210–211. ISBN978-0-425-16358-0.
  11. ^ Go-Set National Height xl, 5 Oct 1966
  12. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-08-fifteen. Retrieved 2018-08-xvi .
  13. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1966-08-10. Retrieved 2018-08-xvi .
  14. ^ Cash Box Pinnacle 100 Singles, July 30, 1966
  15. ^ "The Hits of 1966, With a Lisp (MP3s)". wfmu.org . Retrieved 2021-eleven-03 .
  16. ^ "M-Audio Fast Rail MKII USB Audio Interface". Guitar Center. 2011-12-29. Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
  17. ^ "Emperor Hudson". Kfxm.com . Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
  18. ^ "Door Slam Sound Furnishings, Door Slam Sounds, Door Slam Sound Effect, Door Slam Sound Clips". Sfxsource.com . Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
  19. ^ "Billboard'due south Recommended LPs". Nielsen Business organization Media, Inc. (15 November 1975). Billboard. Nielsen Business organisation Media, Inc. pp. 72–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  20. ^ Newsweek. Newsweek, Incorporated. Oct 1975. p. 86.
  21. ^ Colin Larkin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Motorbus Press. pp. 2178–. ISBN978-0-85712-595-eight.
  22. ^ "International news reports". Nielsen Business organization Media, Inc. (xx Baronial 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 55–. ISSN 0006-2510.

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