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Jerry Samuels, Creator of a Novelty Hit, Is Dead at 84

The New York Times – Music:

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.

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Comedy 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)
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