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1966 single by Napoleon Xiv

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

Cover of the Rhino Records co. re-issue of the WB anthology
Unmarried past Napoleon Fourteen
B-side "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT"
Released July 1966
Recorded 1966
Genre Novelty, comedy
Length ii:x
Label Warner Bros. #5831
Songwriter(s) N. Bonaparte (Jerry Samuels)
Producer(s) A Jepalana Production
Napoleon 14 singles chronology
"They're Coming to Accept Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"
(1966) 		"I'thou in Love with My Little Red 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 Abroad, 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 vocal became an instant success in the United States, peaking at No. iii on the Billboard Hot 100 popular music singles nautical chart on August thirteen,[1] No. ane on the Cash Box Tiptop 100 charts, No. two in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.[ii]

Lyrics [edit]

The lyrics announced to describe a human's mental anguish after a break-up with a woman, and his descent into madness leading to his committal to a "funny farm" (slang for a mental hospital). It's finally revealed in the last line of the third verse that he's not beingness driven insane past the loss of a woman — but past a runaway dog: "They'll find you yet and when they do, they'll put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt". Co-ordinate to Samuels, he was concerned the record could be seen as making fun of the mentally ill, and intentionally added that line so "you realize that the person is talking about a domestic dog having left him, non a human". Said Samuels, "I felt information technology would crusade some people to say 'Well, it'due south alright.' And it did. Information technology worked."[3] [four]

Song structure and technical groundwork [edit]

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

Co-ordinate to Samuels, the vocal glissando was achieved by manipulating the recording speed of his vocal track, a multitrack variation on the technique used by Ross Bagdasarian in creating the original Chipmunks novelty songs.[iv] 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 employ a Variable Frequency Oscillator to alter the 60 Hz frequency of the hysteresis motor of a multitrack record recording machine in order to heighten or lower the pitch of a vocalization without changing the tempo. This gave him the idea for a song based on the rhythm of the erstwhile Scottish melody "The Campbells Are Coming". Afterwards recording a percussion track at the standard speed, he played it back through headphones while recording the song on another track and gradually adjusting the VFO and the pace of his vocals to produce the desired effect. Some tracks were treated with intermittent record-based echo effects created by an Echoplex. Samuels also layered in siren effects that gradually rose and fell with the pitch of his vocals.[6] [5]

B-side [edit]

Continuing the theme of insanity, the flip or B-side of the single was simply the A-side played in contrary, 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". Almost of the characterization affixed to the B-side was a mirror image of the forepart label (equally opposed to simply being spelled backward), including the messages in the "WB" shield logo. Merely the label proper name, disclaimer, and record and recording principal numbers were kept frontward. The opposite version of the song is not included on the original Warner Bros. anthology, although the title is shown on the front embrace, where the title is actually spelled backward.[vii]

In his Book of Rock Lists, rock music critic Dave Marsh calls the B-side the "nearly obnoxious vocal ever to appear in a jukebox", saying the recording once "cleared out a diner of 40 patrons in two minutes flat."[8]

Airplay [edit]

The song charted at No. three on the Billboard Hot 100 charts on August 13,[i] No. one on the Cash Box Superlative 100 charts on July 30, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the Britain 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 besides 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 Calendar week Ahead charts which was an addition to the Cash Box Meridian 100 charts. The reissue featured the "Burbank/palm trees" characterization. Every bit with the original release, the labels for the reissue's B-side also included mirror-imaged impress except for the disclaimer, record catalog, and runway master numbers. The "Burbank" motto at the top of the characterization was as well kept frontward equally well as the "WB" messages in the shield logo, which had been printed in contrary on the originals.[10]

Chart history [edit]

Chart (1966) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[xi] 40
Canada RPM Superlative Singles[12] 2
Britain[13] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] 3
U.Due south. Cash Box Tiptop 100[14] 1

Sequels [edit]

"I'one thousand Happy They Took You lot Away, Ha-Haaa!" was recorded by CBS Radio Mystery Theater cast member Bryna Raeburn, credited every bit "Josephine 15", and was the endmost rails on Side Two of the 1966 Warner Bros. album. (Josephine was the proper noun of the spouse of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.)

In 1966, "They Took You Abroad, I'm Glad, I'grand Glad" appeared on These Are the Hits, You Empty-headed Savages past Teddy & Darrel [fifteen]

A variation of "They're Coming to Have Me Abroad, Ha-Haaa!" was also done past Jerry Samuels, from that aforementioned album entitled Where the Nuts hunt the Squirrels, where Samuels, towards the end of the runway, repeats the line: "THEY'RE TRYING TO Drive ME SANE!!! HA HA," before the song's fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice.[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 brother away/The men in white picked him upward yesterday/But they'll never come take me away, 'cos I'm O.K./I'm normal." Another line in the vocal 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 Over again, Ha Haaa!", a sequel to the original record. Information technology was included on a single 2 years later on the Collectables label. Recorded with the same beat equally the original, and portraying Napoleon XIV relapsing to madness afterwards 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 anthology.) In the song, the singer is released from the insane asylum, at present deeply resentful of his time in the "loony bin" and "rubber room" and vowing to seek revenge on an ape by swinging information technology past its tail; he is yet non fully cured of his insanity and is paranoid that he will be re-institutionalized. Towards the end of the song, he relapses into the "funny farm" and "happy abode"—until when reality sinks in, he cries out at a fast tracked double voice with the words: "OH NO!!!" earlier 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 past Dr. Demento in 1975 every bit part of Dr. Demento's Delights,[19] [twenty] then in subsequent Dr. Demento LP records released in 1985, 1988 and 1991.

Cover versions [edit]

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

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Billboard Publications, 1983.
  2. ^ a b c Joel Whitburn's Tiptop Popular Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  3. ^ Richard Crouse (26 April 2000). Large Blindside, Babe: Rock Trivia. Dundurn. pp. 91–. ISBN978-0-88882-219-2.
  4. ^ a b c Richard Crouse (fifteen March 2012). Who Wrote The Book Of Dear?. Doubleday Canada. pp. 70–. ISBN978-0-385-67442-3.
  5. ^ a b "They're Coming To Accept Me Abroad, Ha-haaa past Napoleon Xiv". SongFacts.com. SongFacts. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  6. ^ Walter Everett (9 Dec 2008). The Foundations of Rock: From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". Oxford Academy Press. pp. 485–. ISBN978-0-19-029497-7.
  7. ^ Paul Simpson (2003). The Rough Guide to Cult Pop. Rough Guides. pp. 23–. ISBN978-i-84353-229-three.
  8. ^ Marsh, Dave; Stein, Kevin (1981). The Book of Rock Lists. Dell Publishing. p. lxxx. ISBN978-0-440-57580-1.
  9. ^ "They're Coming To Take Me Abroad, Ha-Haaa! Napoleon 14". 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. ^ Become-Ready National Pinnacle 40, five Oct 1966
  12. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-08-xv. Retrieved 2018-08-xvi .
  13. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1966-08-10. Retrieved 2018-08-16 .
  14. ^ Greenbacks Box Top 100 Singles, July 30, 1966
  15. ^ "The Hits of 1966, With a Lisp (MP3s)". wfmu.org . Retrieved 2021-11-03 .
  16. ^ "Grand-Sound Fast Rails 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 Effects, Door Slam Sounds, Door Slam Audio Event, Door Slam Sound Clips". Sfxsource.com . Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
  19. ^ "Billboard'southward Recommended LPs". Nielsen Business 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. Coach Printing. pp. 2178–. ISBN978-0-85712-595-8.
  22. ^ "International news reports". Nielsen Concern Media, Inc. (xx August 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Concern Media, Inc. pp. 55–. ISSN 0006-2510.

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