Talk:Napoleon XIV

message: 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)
thread_title: Article name

message: "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)
thread_title:  Radio boycott 

message: The text said:
:While he did not achieve any further mainstream success, based upon the relatively recent cover versions of his hit song (see:"They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"), Napoleon XIV has remained a cult favorite to this day.
I assumed that meant the "recent cover versions" were an indication Samuels was a "cult favorite". The phrasing was awkward, though, because this:
:While he did not achieve any further mainstream success, based upon the relatively recent cover versions of his hit song...
...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):
:While he did not achieve further mainstream success, recent cover versions of They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! indicate that Napoleon XIV has remained a cult favorite.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SomeAvailableName (talk • contribs) 10:12, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous passage 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Citing References and Sources 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Jerry Samuels' pre-Napoleon career 

message: 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)
thread_title:  not top 5