News 03/10/20239Jerry Samuels Dies: One of Pop Music’s Most Unique One-Hit Wonders as ‘Napoleon XIV’ He wrote and recorded “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!,” an instant hit single in 1966, with an equally bizarre B-side
How the Song Came to Be 08/06/202211They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! It was bizarre but an instant smash hit. Then there was a backlash. Read the strange tale of Napoleon XIV and hear the song that drove people mad.