Theyre Coming to Get Me Again Ha Ha
| "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" | ||||
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 Embrace of the Rhino Records co. re-issue of the WB album | ||||
| Single past Napoleon 14 | ||||
| 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 Product | |||
| Napoleon Fourteen singles chronology | ||||
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| B-side | ||||
 Characterization of the original 7-inch issue | ||||
| Audio | ||||
| "They're Coming to Accept Me Abroad, Ha-Haaa!" on YouTube | ||||
| "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT" on YouTube | ||||
"They're Coming to Have Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" is a 1966 novelty tape written and performed past Jerry Samuels (billed every bit 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 pop music singles chart on Baronial 13,[1] No. 1 on the Cash Box Top 100 charts, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. four on the UK Singles Chart.[2]
Lyrics [edit]
The lyrics appear to describe a man's mental ache afterward a intermission-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 terminal line of the third verse that he'south non being driven insane by the loss of a woman — but by a runaway dog: "They'll discover you notwithstanding and when they do, they'll put yous in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt". According to Samuels, he was concerned the record could be seen every bit 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 information technology would crusade some people to say 'Well, it's alright.' And it did. Information technology worked."[iii] [4]
Song construction and technical background [edit]
The song is driven by a snare drum, tambourine and hand clap rhythm. The vocal is spoken rhythmically rather than sung melodically, while the song pitch rises and falls at key points to create an unusual glissando event, augmented by the audio of wailing sirens.[iv] [v]
According to Samuels, the vocal glissando was accomplished by manipulating the recording speed of his vocal runway, a multitrack variation on the technique used past Ross Bagdasarian in creating the original Chipmunks novelty songs.[4] 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 use a Variable Frequency Oscillator to alter the 60 Hz frequency of the hysteresis motor of a multitrack tape recording machine in order to enhance or lower the pitch of a voice without changing the tempo. This gave him the thought for a song based on the rhythm of the old Scottish tune "The Campbells Are Coming". Later on recording a percussion runway 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 upshot. Some tracks were treated with intermittent tape-based echo effects created by an Echoplex. Samuels also layered in siren effects that gradually rose and savage 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 but 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". Almost of the label affixed to the B-side was a mirror image of the front label (every bit opposed to simply being spelled backward), including the letters in the "WB" shield logo. Only the label name, disclaimer, and record and recording master numbers were kept forrard. The contrary version of the song is not included on the original Warner Bros. album, although the title is shown on the front cover, where the title is actually spelled astern.[7]
In his Book of Rock Lists, rock music critic Dave Marsh calls the B-side the "almost obnoxious song ever to appear in a jukebox", saying the recording once "cleared out a diner of forty patrons in ii minutes apartment."[8]
Airplay [edit]
The song charted at No. three on the Billboard Hot 100 charts on August 13,[1] No. 1 on the Cash Box Top 100 charts on July 30, No. 2 in Canada, and reaching No. 4 on the Britain 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 Ahead charts which was an improver to the Cash Box Top 100 charts. The reissue featured the "Burbank/palm trees" label. Equally with the original release, the labels for the reissue's B-side also included mirror-imaged print except for the disclaimer, tape catalog, and track master numbers. The "Burbank" motto at the top of the label was also kept forwards likewise as the "WB" letters in the shield logo, which had been printed in reverse on the originals.[10]
Chart history [edit]
| Chart (1966) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[xi] | forty |
| Canada RPM Tiptop Singles[12] | ii |
| UK[thirteen] | 4 |
| U.Due south. Billboard Hot 100[2] | iii |
| U.S. Greenbacks Box Top 100[14] | 1 |
Sequels [edit]
"I'grand Happy They Took You Abroad, Ha-Haaa!" was recorded by CBS Radio Mystery Theater cast fellow member Bryna Raeburn, credited as "Josephine 15", and was the endmost track on Side Two 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 by Teddy & Darrel [15]
A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was also done by Jerry Samuels, from that same 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 song'due south fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice.[16]
In 1966, KRLA DJ "Emperor Bob" Hudson recorded a similarly styled song titled I'm Normal, including the lines "They came and took my brother abroad/The men in white picked him up yesterday/Just they'll never come take me away, 'cos I'm O.Thousand./I'one thousand 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 Over again, Ha Haaa!", a sequel to the original record. It was included on a single ii years subsequently the Collectables label. Recorded with the same crush as the original, and portraying Napoleon XIV relapsing to madness later on 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 vocal, the singer is released from the insane asylum, now securely resentful of his time in the "loony bin" and "rubber room" and vowing to seek revenge on an ape past swinging it by its tail; he is still not fully cured of his insanity and is paranoid that he will be re-institutionalized. Towards the end of the vocal, he relapses into the "funny subcontract" and "happy dwelling"—until when reality sinks in, he cries out at a fast tracked double vocalization with the words: "OH NO!!!" before the shell ends with a door slam, indicating that he has been locked upward in the insane asylum.[18]
The recording appeared on disk releases past Dr. Demento in 1975 as part of Dr. Demento's Delights,[19] [20] and then in subsequent Dr. Demento LP records released in 1985, 1988 and 1991.
Cover versions [edit]
Many embrace versions of the song were recorded following the song's release in 1966. Kim Fowley released a encompass of the song as his second unmarried, after "The Trip".[21] [22]
References [edit]
- ^ a b Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top forty Hits, Billboard Publications, 1983.
- ^ a b c Joel Whitburn'due south Peak Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
- ^ Richard Crouse (26 April 2000). Big Bang, Infant: Rock Trivia. Dundurn. pp. 91–. ISBN978-0-88882-219-2.
- ^ a b c Richard Crouse (15 March 2012). Who Wrote The Book Of Love?. Doubleday Canada. pp. seventy–. ISBN978-0-385-67442-3.
- ^ a b "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa by Napoleon Fourteen". SongFacts.com. SongFacts. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Walter Everett (9 December 2008). The Foundations of Rock: From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". Oxford Academy Press. pp. 485–. ISBN978-0-19-029497-vii.
- ^ Paul Simpson (2003). The Rough Guide to Cult Pop. Rough Guides. pp. 23–. ISBN978-1-84353-229-iii.
- ^ Marsh, Dave; Stein, Kevin (1981). The Book of Rock Lists. Dell Publishing. p. fourscore. ISBN978-0-440-57580-1.
- ^ "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! Napoleon Fourteen". Songfacts.com. Songfacts. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ Ace Collins (1998). Disco Duck and Other Adventures in Novelty Music . Berkley Boulevard Books. pp. 210–211. ISBN978-0-425-16358-0.
- ^ Go-Fix National Top forty, 5 October 1966
- ^ "Detail Brandish - RPM - Library and Athenaeum Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-08-xv. Retrieved 2018-08-16 .
- ^ "Official Charts Visitor". Officialcharts.com. 1966-08-ten. Retrieved 2018-08-sixteen .
- ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 30, 1966
- ^ "The Hits of 1966, With a Lisp (MP3s)". wfmu.org . Retrieved 2021-11-03 .
- ^ "M-Audio Fast Rail MKII USB Audio Interface". Guitar Center. 2011-12-29. Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
- ^ "Emperor Hudson". Kfxm.com . Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
- ^ "Door Slam Sound Furnishings, Door Slam Sounds, Door Slam Sound Effect, Door Slam Sound Clips". Sfxsource.com . Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
- ^ "Billboard's Recommended LPs". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (15 November 1975). Billboard. Nielsen Concern Media, Inc. pp. 72–. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Newsweek. Newsweek, Incorporated. Oct 1975. p. 86.
- ^ Colin Larkin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Motorbus Press. pp. 2178–. ISBN978-0-85712-595-8.
- ^ "International news reports". Nielsen Business concern Media, Inc. (20 Baronial 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Business organization Media, Inc. pp. 55–. ISSN 0006-2510.
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