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"They're Coming to Take Me Abroad, Ha-Haaa!"
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Cover of the Rhino Records co. re-issue of the WB anthology
Single by Napoleon XIV
B-side "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT"
Released July 1966
Recorded 1966
Genre Novelty, comedy
Length ii:ten
Characterization 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'one thousand in Love with My Lilliputian Carmine Tricycle"
(1966)
B-side
Label of the original 7-inch issue

Label of the original 7-inch event
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 Abroad, Ha-Haaa!" is a 1966 novelty record written and performed by Jerry Samuels (billed equally Napoleon Xiv), and released on Warner Bros. Records. The song became an instant success in the United States, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 popular music singles chart on August 13,[1] No. i on the Cash Box Top 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-up with a adult female, and his descent into madness leading to his committal to a "funny farm" (slang for a mental hospital). Information technology's finally revealed in the last line of the tertiary poetry that he's not being driven insane past the loss of a woman — but by a runaway dog: "They'll find you yet and when they practise, they'll put you in the ASPCA, y'all mangy mutt". Co-ordinate to Samuels, he was concerned the record could be seen equally making fun of the mentally ill, and intentionally added that line then "you realize that the person is talking nearly a dog having left him, not a homo". Said Samuels, "I felt information technology would cause some people to say 'Well, it's alright.' And information technology did. Information technology worked."[3] [4]

Song structure and technical background [edit]

The song is driven by a snare drum, tambourine and hand clap rhythm. The song is spoken rhythmically rather than sung melodically, while the vocal pitch rises and falls at key points to create an unusual glissando event, augmented past the sound of wailing sirens.[four] [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.[four] At the fourth dimension the vocal was written, Samuels was working every bit a recording engineer at Associated Recording Studios in New York. Samuels discovered he could use a Variable Frequency Oscillator to alter the 60 Hz frequency of the hysteresis motor of a multitrack record recording automobile in order to raise or lower the pitch of a voice without changing the tempo. This gave him the idea for a song based on the rhythm of the onetime Scottish tune "The Campbells Are Coming". After recording a percussion track at the standard speed, he played information technology back through headphones while recording the vocal on another track and gradually adjusting the VFO and the pace of his vocals to produce the desired event. Some tracks were treated with intermittent tape-based echo effects created by an Echoplex. Samuels too layered in siren effects that gradually rose and fell with the pitch of his vocals.[6] [five]

B-side [edit]

Continuing the theme of insanity, the flip or B-side of the single was only the A-side played in reverse, 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 equally "XIV NAPOLEON". About of the characterization affixed to the B-side was a mirror prototype of the front label (equally opposed to simply beingness spelled backward), including the letters in the "WB" shield logo. Only the characterization proper noun, disclaimer, and record and recording master numbers were kept frontward. 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 backward.[7]

In his Volume of Rock Lists, rock music critic Dave Marsh calls the B-side the "nearly obnoxious song e'er to announced in a jukebox", saying the recording once "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 Baronial 13,[1] No. 1 on the Greenbacks Box Top 100 charts on July 30, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart.[two]

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

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 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's B-side also included mirror-imaged print except for the disclaimer, record catalog, and track master numbers. The "Burbank" motto at the top of the characterization was also 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)[eleven] 40
Canada RPM Top Singles[12] 2
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland[13] 4
U.Due south. Billboard Hot 100[ii] 3
U.S. Greenbacks Box Summit 100[14] ane

Sequels [edit]

"I'm Happy They Took You lot Away, Ha-Haaa!" was recorded by CBS Radio Mystery Theater cast fellow member Bryna Raeburn, credited equally "Josephine XV", and was the closing rail on Side Ii of the 1966 Warner Bros. album. (Josephine was the name of the spouse of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.)

In 1966, "They Took You Away, I'm Glad, I'm Glad" appeared on These Are the Hits, You Silly Savages past Teddy & Darrel [15]

A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was besides done past Jerry Samuels, from that aforementioned album entitled Where the Nuts hunt the Squirrels, where Samuels, towards the end of the track, repeats the line: "THEY'RE TRYING TO DRIVE ME SANE!!! HA HA," before the vocal's fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice.[xvi]

In 1966, KRLA DJ "Emperor Bob" Hudson recorded a similarly styled song titled I'm Normal, including the lines "They came and took my blood brother abroad/The men in white picked him up yesterday/Simply they'll never come up have me away, 'cos I'k O.Grand./I'grand normal." Another line in the song was: "I eat my peas with a tuning fork." The tape was credited merely 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 2 years later on the Collectables characterization. Recorded with the same beat as the original, and portraying Napoleon XIV relapsing to madness subsequently being released from an insane asylum, information technology never charted, and was combined with the original 1966 recording on side A. (Both sequels are included on Samuels' 1996 2nd Coming anthology.) In the song, the singer is released from the insane asylum, now deeply resentful of his fourth dimension in the "loony bin" and "condom room" and vowing to seek revenge on an ape by swinging information technology 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 vocal, he relapses into the "funny farm" and "happy dwelling house"—until when reality sinks in, he cries out at a fast tracked double voice with the words: "OH NO!!!" earlier the crush ends with a door slam, indicating that he has been locked upwardly in the insane aviary.[18]

The recording appeared on disk releases by Dr. Demento in 1975 as part of Dr. Demento'due south Delights,[xix] [20] so in subsequent Dr. Demento LP records released in 1985, 1988 and 1991.

Cover versions [edit]

Many embrace versions of the song were recorded post-obit the vocal'south release in 1966. Kim Fowley released a cover of the song as his 2d single, afterward "The Trip".[21] [22]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top forty Hits, Billboard Publications, 1983.
  2. ^ a b c Joel Whitburn's Meridian Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  3. ^ Richard Crouse (26 Apr 2000). Large Bang, Infant: Rock Trivia. Dundurn. pp. 91–. ISBN978-0-88882-219-2.
  4. ^ a b c Richard Crouse (15 March 2012). Who Wrote The Book Of Honey?. Doubleday Canada. pp. seventy–. ISBN978-0-385-67442-3.
  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 (9 December 2008). The Foundations of Stone: From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". Oxford University Press. pp. 485–. ISBN978-0-19-029497-7.
  7. ^ Paul Simpson (2003). The Rough Guide to Cult Pop. Rough Guides. pp. 23–. ISBN978-1-84353-229-iii.
  8. ^ Marsh, Dave; Stein, Kevin (1981). The Volume of Rock Lists. Dell Publishing. p. 80. ISBN978-0-440-57580-1.
  9. ^ "They're Coming To Take 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 Tiptop 40, v October 1966
  12. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Athenaeum Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-08-15. Retrieved 2018-08-sixteen .
  13. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1966-08-10. Retrieved 2018-08-16 .
  14. ^ Cash Box Height 100 Singles, July xxx, 1966
  15. ^ "The Hits of 1966, With a Lisp (MP3s)". wfmu.org . Retrieved 2021-xi-03 .
  16. ^ "M-Sound 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 Audio Effects, Door Slam Sounds, Door Slam Audio Effect, Door Slam Audio Clips". Sfxsource.com . Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
  19. ^ "Billboard'due south Recommended LPs". Nielsen Business organization Media, Inc. (15 November 1975). Billboard. Nielsen Concern Media, Inc. pp. 72–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  20. ^ Newsweek. Newsweek, Incorporated. October 1975. p. 86.
  21. ^ Colin Larkin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Double-decker Press. pp. 2178–. ISBN978-0-85712-595-8.
  22. ^ "International news reports". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (twenty August 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Business concern Media, Inc. pp. 55–. ISSN 0006-2510.

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