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This page contains basically the whole They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! song article... AnonMoos 17:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
All recording info is sourced first hand directly from the original released recordings. The remark concerning Barry and Sol Parker songwriting credit is taken directly from Jerry Samuels, himself, via a series of 2 separate telephone interviews from 2006. FredClem (talk) 01:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I undid the edit because I feel that it offers a more definitive origin to his name. I have never felt the "XIV" origin of his name being related to Louis XIV as being definitive, but more speculative. I find no actual documentation to support that claim. I offered physical evidence to support my own, but it was removed as an alleged infringement of copyright (which I still disagree with since I felt it was within the rules of Wikipedia for fair usage a copyrighted image: low resolution, etc.). FredClem (talk) 01:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
An article that should be named Jerry Samuels should contain this content, as this content addresses Jerry's whole songwriting career. The Napoleon XIV should either contain the specific content related to that nom de plume and link to Jerry, or the whole Napoleon XIV article should redirect to Jerry Samuels. Group29 (talk) 16:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
"after stations stopped playing it in the wake of protests from advocacy groups for the mentally ill."
They may well have done so in the USA, but BBC Radio played it in the 1980s and later. I don't think they do anymore but anyway...--MacRusgail (talk) 18:18, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
The text said:
I assumed that meant the "recent cover versions" were an indication Samuels was a "cult favorite". The phrasing was awkward, though, because this:
...could give the impression---to someone who didn't know what a "cover" was---that Samuels himself had recently re-recorded the song. Thus my edit (also economizing words):
This has been an ongoing dilemma for this article almost from the beginning. Most of which I had contributed to this article was based on my own personal research (based on actual physical evidence, not from books or articles), as well as personal phone conversations with Jerry Samuels himself for confirmation. Alot of which I've found in books has largely been based on speculation. For instance, the origin of his name (Napoleon XIV). Most would prefer to believe that he got his name based on Napoleon and Louis XIV. When Bloominthemusical entered an actual (complete) testimony of the origin of Napoleon XIV, it was deleted as being cited as "vandelism" the first time around, and then two more times after that. What was cited in that testimony was indeed fact (to his best recollection), written by Jerry Samuels himself. Jerry actually told me about it BEFORE I read about it here (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Napoleon_XIV&oldid=246862768), and he even read it to me, word for word, over the phone. Granted that the story had yet to be published in actual book form, but still they were Jerry's own words. If Jerry's own words can't account for being reliable references or sources, I don't know what can.
Fred Clemens FredClem (talk) 00:22, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
This recording contains an interview with Samuels by Dr Demento from ~6/4/76. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nPwqrg993I The interview starts at 56:50. He describes how he made the song. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.124.116.101 (talk) 01:06, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 20:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Napoleon XIV → Jerry Samuels – Napoleon XIV was only part of his novelty record career. --Relisted. Dekimasuよ! 20:49, 6 December 2014 (UTC) In ictu oculi (talk) 00:33, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
There used to be a section on Jerry Samuels' pre-Napoleon recording career in which he cut records that were flops in the late 1950s. I started to bring it back and I encourage others to join in. Steelbeard1 (talk) 11:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
It was not top 5, it was top 3, reaching its peak of #3 August 13 1966. Source Billboard Magazine Hot 100 chart. 71.184.87.187 (talk) 00:54, 25 July 2022 (UTC)