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'They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!' + 'Edis B' - NAPOLEON XIV - 45rpm 1966
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2009
- Napoleon XIV was singer-songwriter and record producer Jerry Samuels (born 1938, New York), who achieved one-hit wonder status with this Top 5 hit novelty song
One time I was in a 50's diner and put a dollar worth of nickles and selected this song 20 times to see how many times it would play before they pulled the plug. 3.5 was the answer.
I needed THAT!
I'm sure I made my mom regret buying this record. I probably played it enough to drive her insane. 🙃
PERFECT use of a dollar. You musta been busting a gut laughing 😂
Hogan Torah 🤣🤣🤣
THAT cracked me up!
After 54 years this song STILL cracks me up every time I hear it.
Same here -Auckland New Zealand 2021
A classic, relevant now more than ever! It could technically be the very first RAP song
I remember singing this song to my teachers for Show And Tell in Elementary School in the 80s...the next year i was transferred to special education haaahahohoheehee...and now i live on a farm. how's that for spooky mwahahahaa
I remember the 80s Elementary Schools and Show and Tell; but that's too spooky of a story you just told.
Or, are you a funny farmer at that.
Why does this song always cheer me up & put a smile on my face??
Because you're normal. LOL
Same ;-:
You mangy mutt! We heard you laugh!
I like it too, it makes me smile and twiddle my thumbs and toes!
it does that to me too
My God. I'd heard tell of the Side B of this song, but actually hearing it is freakish and mind-bending! Just wow.
Me and my family have a running joke where one of us will say HEE HEE and one of us will say HAA HAA or HOO HOO and it goes for like 30 seconds at a time, been going for like 3 years, I didn't know it came from this song, this is AWESOME.
Hee hee, haa haa, hoo hoo!!!! LMBO!
Family traditions, inside jokes
A radio station in San Angelo Texas in the mid 80's played this for 3 days straight when they changed format.
I remember that.
A radio station in Shreveport, LA played it straight for 24 hours when that station launched in the early 80's. KTUX
@@grammrene LOL, I was in college in Longview at the time and listened to it!
I was 7 when this came out, but it has been stuck in my head ever since !
Sunday night Doctor Dimento radio show regular....
it was the opening theme in fact
Dr. D show was awesome and funny
I'm home :)
...as a child I used to cry whenever this was on the radio
me to
are you the first snowflake requiring a safe place?
@@Circuit7Active Dude this song is creepy as fuck
This reminds me of my childhood. Good times.
Man I was at work and this song came into my head from when I was a kid. Guy working with me really thought I was nuts when I started singing. HAHa HoHO Hehe
This song was part of the soundtrack to the summer of '66 for me. I was in junior high then. I can still recite it to this day. Now I do aerobics to it.
My brothers use to play this around bedtime when my sister and i were little. They would laugh knowing it scared us and would be screaming for mom.
Sorry. That made me smile. 😊
@@blackcatsandpoppies LOL
I wanted this played at my Wedding.
... and why not 🤣🤣🤣
Listening to this today in honor of how I'm feeling at work.
Why did I like this song so much as a kid??
O..... M ..... G ... this song would get stuck in my mind for hours after I heard it. They're coming to take me awaaaaaay!!!!!!
I remember when this came out,, it was banned on radio
From late spring, early summer 1966. Is this the first Rap Song?
Actually, clever novelty song.
We could say yes, this song is great, and it's amazing that it's from '66.
We will rock you. The first rap song. There was also I group in the 1940s, that actually, did rap. Wasn't call rap then.
still love this song after all theses years
Great song. So much truth.
Love this song.
Man, this was on the radio when I was a little kid. That was some creepy crap.... :O
Somehow it even makes sense playing backwards.... :O
Wow just Wow.
it got banned from radios cause of what it is
I had this 45 as a kid. I played it over and over. The backward side was always my favorite side. I have a screw loose to this day! Hee hee, ha ha!
Jerry Samuels, known by the stage name Napoleon XIV, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He achieved one-hit wonder status with the Top 5 hit novelty song "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" in 1966. Wikipedia
Absolutely luv this song
Ash Vs Evil Dead brought me here... i think i've heard this song before... don't know why... thankx for the upload! :)
yeah this looks more satanic than the show
P.M.Télé , Same.
The very last line of the backward track sounds to me like "Eh what every no good manner." I'm not claiming it really is that though. I don't believe in serious hidden messages in reversed recordings. It's just a matter of your own perception. Bits and pieces of the rest do sort of resemble words here and there, but it is rare when they come cleanly together in any reversed recording to form any significant phrase.
I just played this song to my 85 year old Dad, he use to sing it to my dearly departed muma in 1970??? Depression was seen as madness. R I P Annie Orourke. 15/08/1934 To 08/11/75. ❤
I had this 45 when I was a kid in the seventies, and hadn't listened to it since that decade until JUST NOW. DAAAMN, what a horror! Catchy and weirdly cool, but scary as shit and I can't believe we just listened to it like, "this is a song I like."
+Corbyn Hanson Hightower What's so horrific about it? I remember this song and still have it in my collection, but haven't heard it in a long time. A younger friend of mine mentioned it to me today as someone remade it in the 90s. She didn't know about the original version from 1966, so I gave her a little history lesson. Haha! I notice this video includes the flip side of the record which was the same song plated backwards. The flip side label is also printed backwards. The flip side doesn't sound much worse than the white noise kids listen to today that they call music.
My mom played this song for me and it scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. 😂
I'm 13
And wow.
I wish this was a song from my childhood. I love this so much!
Hope you enjoy this kind of music. I actually grew up in this era and loved it.
It is now...heehee hoho haha
"And now you see I've completely lost my mind"
Why, yes, yes I do.
Oh God.....I'm old !!!.
SWEET NECTAR!!!! My mom had a 45 of this. One side forward, one side the other way. MEMORIES!!!!!
The first time I heard this song was when I stayed over night at Grandma's house. I was just a kid and I'm 60y/o now. Unforgetable song, Especially backwards.
I love this song.
This song is even better in reverse.
Forever on my Halloween playlist!
Normal version and the better backwards playing version...love this crazy records !!!
Side A, both hilariously funny and subtly frightening at the same time. Side B is the ultimate alternative universe analogue...
Pure genius!
I still have the 45 of They are coming to take me away. On the flipside the song is played backwards
So damnnnnn awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍🇺🇸🔥❤️💯
Worth coin
From Wikipedia: At the time the song was written, Jerry Samuels was a recording engineer at Associated Recording Studios in New York. Using a device called a variable-frequency oscillator (VFO), he was able to alter the pitch of a recording (voices higher or lower, for example) without changing the tempo. From this came the idea for a song based on the rhythm of the old Scottish tune "The Campbells Are Coming". Also Kim Fowley released a cover of the song as his second single, after "The Trip."
My favorite song
Ahhh, memories!
Love it ,brings back memories
I used to have this record when I was a kid in the early 1970's and would listen to it and the other side was the same song but in reverse as illustrated here. I always felt it was a weird, creepy song!
this song brings back fond memories of my childhood lmfao!!! :D
I loved this one as a child but only during the day...lol
I had this record years ago! thank you for putting this on UA-cam! :)
Classic song that was somewhat controversial-The perception was that it ridiculed those who were mentally ill-It peaked at # 3 in Billboard-However,it got pulled off radio stations once complaints started pouring in-WABC in New York played it briefly but soon removed it from their playlist.
most unusual but a great fun song nice to hear it after all these years
This was a No. 1 hit in Montreal and I remember Dave Boxer on CFCF radion despised the "song." He was required to play it, but always let the listening audience that he was playing under duress.
I loved it and still do - cracks me right up ha ha!
Played at full blast while standing on my deck with my coffee and morning cigarette.
Needed this today.
TY!
One of my late husband's favorite songs!
Still got my copy on 45
This is the perfect breakup song for the jilted party.
Geeze, I haven't heard this in years!
Jerry also wrote The Shelter of Your Arms which was a big Sammy Davis Jr. hit. His twin brother, Perry, was the Manager of WPTR, the 50,000 watt powerhouse rocker in Albany, NY when I worked there in 1966. I was the only Chimp disk Jockey in the country.
I remember on KFWB they played this...this..."song" every single half hour and *I* nearly lost my mind.
I should have bought the 45 at I saw that side 2 was also printed backwards.
Paul
that song scared the beejeezus out of me when I was 8. (in 1966)
I was 7 and used to freak out my little brother out, with the flashlight under my chin, in the dark and sing it to him. (We shared a room with bunk beds) .
Creepy, what were they thinking?? I was 7 and I truly remember my grandpa saying “ the Politicians must be having a party”. Then he’s swear in German for 5 minutes . lol.
Have both -a & b sides now sooooooo happy new subscriber!! Made my day tys sooooooooo very much! 👍🇺🇸🙏❤️💯🎧🎼☮️
I always loved that song. This song just made me laugh and dance as a kid. I struck me funny .It was wacky like Soupy Sales and Sandy Becker who I loved .
My mother always played this when my father came home from the local xxxx
1966? I could have sworn this came out in Australia when I was still in high school in 1963 or1964 - I must be going crazy . . . They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa!
It's just as good backwards , as it is forward!
This seemingly comedy record is actually a solemn account of the very serious after effects of human heartbreak, the damage from which can last a lifetime, or 20yrs in my case so far. Alan, in England
when this came out in the 60's they banned it from radio
I lived near San Francisco when this was a hit. Some of the inmates from the local 'Funny Farm' contacted the radio station that played it the most, complaining that it was very upsetting to them. The station stopped playing it which I thought was very kind.
Should be in the rock n' roll hall of fame
yeah, i agree with you. Listen carefuly and it is so close to an experience we have all had. It's still clever...
I love this I got this. this record fir my Bday, favourite BDay gift when I lived in Corry amall 'The Gong' Tom & Jerry Mothman Kar ate Shit show Jonathan Banks ⚜️⚔️
Anyone else remember that years after this song debuted as the funny and inoffensive "one-hit wonder" which it truly was meant in the mid-late 1960's, that it was "banned" from commercial radio airplay starting in the early 1970's because it was thought by some to be "insensitive" and "mocking" of those with "mental health issues"? The ban seemed to coincide with the mid-1970's beginnings of the push to end the institutionalization of those with mental and emotional control issues, which was cheered by many academics at the time and by large portions of the mainstream media as well. At the time, what was being pushed was that "monitored aftercare programs" on an outpatient basis, overseen by "mental health professionals" prescribing "therapy" combined with huge amounts of psychotropics, would be "more effective", "more humane", and "less costly" than court-ordered institutionalization.
they re coming to take me away ha haa . my friend sung this to me repeatively wen i sed i was going on holiday and i ended up singin it on holiday
This used to scare me when I was about 3 or 4yrs old. My mom & my brother's mom used to turn all the lights out @ night & play this record, they had a 45 of this song. We were very little & would get so scared & cry & they would laugh @ us lol.. It's funny looking back
Great song!!
I had this record as a teen, new the words, too. Same thing with hello muddah
Outstanding
after playing max payn 2 i desided to look up this song......it,s super thanks for this
This is actually nice music especially when the voice becomes squeaker.
I just found this music, I don’t regret.
listened to to a 8 track when i was a kid in the 80's
That was a trip, I remember that the record did play that way, half backwards recorded.
It never fails to amaze me how the English language, played backwards, sounds like Russian ! Someone smarter than me could probably make a connection between Napoleon in reverse and Russia....Like I said, someone much, much smarter than me !
This song should play at the beginning of business every day at the Capitol Building !
+Screww Googlle And at the Houses of Parliament!
they will not take me away, Nobody wants me, I am so dumb I need help to work out what I need to say, left & right is a problem but I do know how to love..
My favorite halloween song as a kid
I love It.....
I forgot this also played backwards. XD
Yes , it sounds even freakier with it being played backwards, ohhh.
Yeah! It kind of sounds like German though. Haha
Oh! This has to be one of the best songs. Kids like it. Parents like it. So do church organists and nurses, Millenniums, Baby Boomers, your mother...
awesome love this
This backwards version scares the hell out me when I was little
I used to listen to this on the Dr Demento show on Sunday nights.
Grea song.
In college, had a part time job as a floor guard at a skating rink. tough gig. lol We played 45rpms. I took my 45, that God only knows how it survived my childhood, but, I'd play the B side, announcing "Backwards Skate!" true story! ;-)
I got this on vinyl yesterday just because of side b printed backwards hoping it played backwards and it does so, that was fun.
Great tune
*Thanks uploader! This was the version I was looking for! Good job, Sir!*
C.(DK).
Thanks for posting this!!