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1966 unmarried by Napoleon XIV

"They're Coming to Take Me Abroad, Ha-Haaa!"
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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, one-act
Length ii:x
Label Warner Bros. #5831
Songwriter(southward) N. Bonaparte (Jerry Samuels)
Producer(southward) A Jepalana Production
Napoleon XIV singles chronology
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"
(1966) 		"I'm in Love with My Little Red Tricycle"
(1966)
B-side
Label of the original 7-inch issue

Label of the original 7-inch outcome
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 by Jerry Samuels (billed as Napoleon XIV), and released on Warner Bros. Records. The song became an instant success in the U.s.a., peaking at No. three on the Billboard Hot 100 popular music singles nautical chart on Baronial 13,[1] No. 1 on the Cash Box Top 100 charts, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the UK Singles Nautical chart.[2]

Lyrics [edit]

The lyrics announced to describe a man's mental ache later a break-upwards with a woman, and his descent into madness leading to his committal to a "funny farm" (slang for a mental infirmary). Information technology's finally revealed in the concluding line of the third verse that he's not being driven insane by the loss of a woman — but by a delinquent dog: "They'll discover yous yet and when they do, they'll put you 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, non a human". Said Samuels, "I felt it would cause some people to say 'Well, it's alright.' And it did. Information technology worked."[3] [iv]

Song structure and technical background [edit]

The vocal 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 event, augmented by the audio of wailing sirens.[four] [v]

According to Samuels, the vocal glissando was achieved by manipulating the recording speed of his song track, a multitrack variation on the technique used past Ross Bagdasarian in creating the original Chipmunks novelty songs.[four] At the time the song was written, Samuels was working as a recording engineer at Associated Recording Studios in New York. Samuels discovered he could utilise a Variable Frequency Oscillator to alter the 60 Hz frequency of the hysteresis motor of a multitrack tape recording machine in lodge to enhance or lower the pitch of a vocalisation without changing the tempo. This gave him the idea for a song based on the rhythm of the one-time Scottish tune "The Campbells Are Coming". After recording a percussion runway at the standard speed, he played information technology back through headphones while recording the vocal on some other track and gradually adjusting the VFO and the pace of his vocals to produce the desired effect. Some tracks were treated with intermittent tape-based echo effects created by an Echoplex. Samuels also layered in siren furnishings that gradually rose and fell with the pitch of his vocals.[half-dozen] [5]

B-side [edit]

Continuing the theme of insanity, the flip or B-side of the single was simply the A-side played in reverse, and given the title "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT" (or "Ha-Haaa! Away, Me Take to Coming They're") and the performer billed as "XIV NAPOLEON". Nearly of the label affixed to the B-side was a mirror image of the front label (as opposed to merely being spelled backward), including the letters in the "WB" shield logo. Only the characterization name, disclaimer, and record and recording master numbers were kept frontward. The reverse version of the song is not included on the original Warner Bros. album, although the title is shown on the forepart encompass, where the title is really spelled backward.[7]

In his Book of Stone Lists, rock music critic Dave Marsh calls the B-side the "about obnoxious vocal e'er to appear in a jukebox", saying the recording one time "cleared out a diner of forty patrons in 2 minutes flat."[8]

Airplay [edit]

The song charted at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts on August 13,[1] No. i on the Cash Box Top 100 charts on July 30, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.[2]

Inside weeks of its release, WABC and WMCA stopped playing the song in response to complaints well-nigh its content from mental wellness 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 only stalled at No. 101 at the Week Alee charts which was an improver to the Cash Box Top 100 charts. The reissue featured the "Burbank/palm trees" label. As with the original release, the labels for the reissue'southward B-side also included mirror-imaged print except for the disclaimer, record catalog, and track master numbers. The "Burbank" motto at the acme of the label was also kept frontward too as the "WB" letters in the shield logo, which had been printed in reverse on the originals.[10]

Chart history [edit]

Nautical chart (1966) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Written report)[11] 40
Canada RPM Acme Singles[12] 2
UK[13] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[two] iii
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[xiv] 1

Sequels [edit]

"I'thou Happy They Took Y'all Abroad, Ha-Haaa!" was recorded by CBS Radio Mystery Theater bandage member Bryna Raeburn, credited every bit "Josephine 15", and was the endmost track on Side 2 of the 1966 Warner Bros. album. (Josephine was the name of the spouse of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.)

In 1966, "They Took You lot Away, I'm Glad, I'm Glad" appeared on These Are the Hits, You Silly Savages by Teddy & Darrel [fifteen]

A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Abroad, Ha-Haaa!" was also done by Jerry Samuels, from that aforementioned album entitled Where the Nuts chase the Squirrels, where Samuels, towards the stop of the runway, repeats the line: "THEY'RE TRYING TO Drive ME SANE!!! HA HA," before the song'south fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice.[16]

In 1966, KRLA DJ "Emperor Bob" Hudson recorded a similarly styled song titled I'one thousand Normal, including the lines "They came and took my brother away/The men in white picked him upwardly yesterday/But they'll never come up take me away, 'cos I'k O.K./I'1000 normal." Another 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 Again, Ha Haaa!", a sequel to the original record. It was included on a unmarried two years later on the Collectables characterization. Recorded with the same shell as the original, and portraying Napoleon XIV relapsing to madness subsequently being released from an insane asylum, 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 vocaliser is released from the insane asylum, now deeply resentful of his time in the "loony bin" and "rubber room" and vowing to seek revenge on an ape by swinging it by its tail; he is still not fully cured of his insanity and is paranoid that he volition be re-institutionalized. Towards the end of the song, he relapses into the "funny subcontract" and "happy dwelling house"—until when reality sinks in, he cries out at a fast tracked double vox with the words: "OH NO!!!" before the beat ends with a door slam, indicating that he has been locked upwards in the insane aviary.[xviii]

The recording appeared on disk releases by Dr. Demento in 1975 equally role of Dr. Demento's Delights,[19] [20] then in subsequent Dr. Demento LP records released in 1985, 1988 and 1991.

Cover versions [edit]

Many cover versions of the vocal were recorded following the song's release in 1966. Kim Fowley released a embrace of the song as his second single, afterwards "The Trip".[21] [22]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Pinnacle 40 Hits, Billboard Publications, 1983.
  2. ^ a b c Joel Whitburn's Pinnacle Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  3. ^ Richard Crouse (26 April 2000). Big Bang, Baby: Rock Trivia. Dundurn. pp. 91–. ISBN978-0-88882-219-2.
  4. ^ a b c Richard Crouse (fifteen March 2012). Who Wrote The Book Of Love?. Doubleday Canada. pp. 70–. ISBN978-0-385-67442-3.
  5. ^ a b "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa past Napoleon 14". SongFacts.com. SongFacts. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  6. ^ Walter Everett (9 December 2008). The Foundations of Rock: From "Bluish Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Bluish Eyes". Oxford University Press. pp. 485–. ISBN978-0-nineteen-029497-7.
  7. ^ Paul Simpson (2003). The Rough Guide to Cult Pop. Rough Guides. pp. 23–. ISBN978-1-84353-229-three.
  8. ^ Marsh, Dave; Stein, Kevin (1981). The Book of Stone Lists. Dell Publishing. p. eighty. ISBN978-0-440-57580-1.
  9. ^ "They're Coming To Have Me Away, Ha-Haaa! Napoleon XIV". 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 40, 5 October 1966
  12. ^ "Particular Brandish - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-08-15. Retrieved 2018-08-16 .
  13. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1966-08-x. Retrieved 2018-08-16 .
  14. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July thirty, 1966
  15. ^ "The Hits of 1966, With a Lisp (MP3s)". wfmu.org . Retrieved 2021-11-03 .
  16. ^ "Yard-Audio Fast Track MKII USB Sound 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 Consequence, Door Slam Sound Clips". Sfxsource.com . Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
  19. ^ "Billboard's Recommended LPs". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (15 Nov 1975). Billboard. Nielsen Business organisation Media, Inc. pp. 72–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  20. ^ Newsweek. Newsweek, Incorporated. October 1975. p. 86.
  21. ^ Colin Larkin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Pop Music. Omnibus Press. pp. 2178–. ISBN978-0-85712-595-8.
  22. ^ "International news reports". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (20 Baronial 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 55–. ISSN 0006-2510.

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