From: timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: They're Coming To Take Me Away ...
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:43:14 GMT
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In article <1992Dec14.214215.28029@rchland.ibm.com>, ehrhart@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jeffrey Ehrhart) writes:
|>   Actually it is Napoleon XIV (14th).  I have maintained that Napoleon XIV
|> and the infamous Dr. Demento are one in the same.  I thought I read that
|> somewhere but have never been able to confirm this.  Can anyone give me
|> confirmation one way or the other?


The liner notes on the original record say something to the effect of
"we're not telling who he really is, but it's someone you'd recognize".

The liner notes in the Doctor Demento 20th Anniversary CD set reveal
Napoleon's real identity -- and it's someone I never heard of. :-)

Here are a couple excerpts from news articles:

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                                Chicago Tribune

                    November 25, 1990, Sunday, FINAL EDITION

SECTION: ARTS; Pg. 20; ZONE: C; Rock

LENGTH: 1013 words

HEADLINE: One-hit wonders
Recalling those oh-so-brief moments of musical glory

BYLINE: By Tom Popson

 BODY:
   Ann-Margret did it. So did Wink Martindale. So, for that matter, did Bent
Fabric, Gary Numan and a singer/songwriter named Jerry Samuels who recorded
marginal-taste tunes about mental derangement under the name  Napoleon XIV.

   While those performers might not have had much else in common, they all
shared one accomplishment: Each placed one, and only one, hit in the Top 40 of
the Billboard singles chart.
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                              The Washington Post

                  September 11, 1991, Wednesday, Final Edition

NAME: BARRY HANSEN; DR. DEMENTO

SECTION: STYLE; PAGE B1

LENGTH: 2333 words

HEADLINE: Dr. Demento's Slipped Discs;
The Deejay Takes His Show on the Road

BYLINE: Richard Harrington, Washington Post Staff Writer

 BODY:

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   There continued to be novelty breakthroughs, most often one-hit blunders,
like 1966's "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" In Philadelphia
recently,  Napoleon XIV,  a k a Jerry Samuels, talked with Demento about the
song. "He now runs an agency booking talent into senior citizens homes and is
very successful," says Demento. "For 30 years, he made a living playing
standards at piano bars for more or less appreciative audiences -- he knows
thousands of songs. But he got tired of bars and started doing the same
repertoire in senior homes, which usually have a piano in the rec room.  'Take
Me Away' was just a brief aberration," Demento adds.

   "Five years ago, he did a sequel, 'They're Coming to Take Me Away Again,'
with some sampling, but it was not really very good. ... He'd redone it with a
disco track 10 years ago, and it was even less successful. Still, he created a
masterpiece and nobody can take that away from him."
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