Posted inComedy and Humor Deaths (Obituaries) Nineteen Hundred Sixties Pop and Rock Music Samuels, Jerry (Napoleon XIV) (1938-2023) They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (Song)
Jerry Samuels, Creator of a Novelty Hit, Is Dead at 84
Under the name Napoleon XIV, he recorded “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” and, to almost everyone’s surprise, it stormed the charts in 1966.