@@bleeperdoot4982 well since it is corona times there is not time to waste on lazyness you need the lungs to be strong, so start singing and practicing :D Stay home stay safe :).
I showed this to my grandma, since it was made in 1966, and she said that it was a song that she and her friends would sing it a lot - apparently it was really popular back then
Show your grandma "Judge Rex D. Stacey". Then, you'll hear him cry about being taken away to the funny farm in the courtroom. Access "Judge Rex D. Stacey". He's a lunatic for a judge in Scott County in Minnesota.
I SANG IT THE ENTIRE TIME I WAS AT THE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR'S "OFFICE" (DAMN HOSPITAL) AND THEN IN THE PSYCHIATRIST'S WAITING ROOM, BATHROOM,HIS OFFICE, HELL I THINK I WENT INTO A BROOM CLOSET & BELTED IT OUT REAL LOUD, BEFORE THEY MADE ME LEAVE.. HEY, IF THEY'RE GONNA LABEL ME BAT SHIT CRAZY THEN I AM DRIVING "BAT SHIT CRAZY" LIKE I STOLE IT!
I'm 73 and live in a senior community with neighbors with many mental health issues. This just sounds like our theme song. I remember this song from the 1960's!
Hugs. My dad is so close to your age. It kills me yo think of him in that situation so I really pray you’ve got family or people who love you visiting. If not I’m happy to try to help any way I can. In choir as a child we would go sing to those in senior communities and it broke my heart how lonely so many can be. I will paint you all pictures, share jokes etc!
I remember this song as well. I remember my parents - they grew up in the Big Band era with crooners cooing into the microphone - were scandalized. My old man did calm down a bit when I explained that the song was actually a joke song written by Jerry Samuels after his dog ran away - don't take the song seriously. Then the old man wanted to know if Samuels ever found his dog - a priority for my dad as he loved dogs.
I love this song specifically because of the time period in which it was made. This kind of music wasn’t widely accepted. They didn’t care. They made the song anyway. That’s rad
I am planning on doing a villain Todoroki (from my hero academia) and he went to the villain side and tried to take Deku with him but Deku abandoned him. And now Todoroki is pissed 😂
My mom was telling me about this song when I was little and she was talking about how she had heard it before I was born and how weird it was. Not two minutes later it came on the car radio. She was scared. It was so crazy that she hadn't heard it in years and years and she was talking to me about it and it came on. Huge coincidence
this is not about the guys dog running away... it‘s a common misconception! He said this in an interview because he was afraid people would think this song was mocking people with depression or mental illnesses. The song is literally about spiraling into madness.
It is about the guys dog running away. The ASPCA is a animal center to stop animal abuse or some crap like that. I dont really remember. But the dog is his therapy dog so he went insane because his dog ran away.
That’s what I’m assuming, Id bet that it was intended to portray “madness”, my mother and I would always play this in the car very loudly on my way to middle school.
this song came out in 1966 and was banned on the radio and removed from stores because of its content, people bought it as fast as they could before it was taken away ha ha .. ...lol...... media said that the song would ''cause people mental anguish''.. and meanwhile in Viet Nam...
Thanks for this video, Y'all. I'm 58 years old and this is still a classic to me. As a kid I recited this great song/sonnet when're visitors called to my home. Some never returned. Respect from Ireland.
Was popular in the 70's-80's!! Dr. Demento played a lot of songs like this!!! I'd wait up till 11 so I could listen B4 I went to sleep. My dad used to sing this to us too. I'm 50 now, and still love it!!!
That’s where I used to hear it, on the Dr. Demento show. Also, Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea, and Lonnie Donnigan’s Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost over night.
In 1966, this was an extremely unusual song, even for those times. My local radio station got so many parental complaints, they stopped playing it for a while. The parent's very young children could not sleep after hearing it. To them, this song was very scary. Meanwhile, all us young teenagers were phoning the station many times daily, requesting that this song, and many others, be played. That was what you could do in those days. It must have been hell to be a radio station playlist manager in those days .......
Yeah even the b side is insane song is played backwards even label printed backwards! What a genius! Totally killer to the max! Both sides & 54 years later guess that tells u my age is high! Love it still!.... 👍❤️💯😻🥰🤩😜🎧🎼🧨😜
The other day at work, an ambulance was passing by, and I began singing this song. The young People around my were quite confused and disturbed, and after I explained it to them, they were relieved that I wasn't losing my mind and had to be taken away myself. Ah, the beauty of age and experience!
I love this Song. I was a senior in highschool, when this song was popular. We would listen to it constantly on the radio. We loved it . I had a small transistor radio. We all had them. We listened to the same radio station for teens, and when this song was played. We did a crazy thing by hitting the thigh , clap, snap. Over and Over We had fun. Still love the SONG. Alice
WOW! I was born in 1974, and I remember this song because my Mom used to sing it to me and my little brother when we were toddlers and we loved it- thought it was a fun song; it would occasionally play on the radio, too I didn’t remember more than the chorus, but it’s way darker now that I’m hearing it at age 50, lol
This song scared the shit out of me as a kid when it came on the radio once. I’ve hated it ever since. Thanks for the upload so I could show other people who don’t believe me.
If you didn't already know, this is literally about a man's pet dog running away, but is notoriously easy to misinterpret as being about his woman leaving him. Listening to this as a kid growing up, I always thought it was the latter. Didn't find out differently 'til many years later. 🤣
After listening to this for the tenth time I started to actually image this being in a dog's perspective. It really doesn't make sense why he randomly said "you mangy mutt" out of the blue, so I'd assume his dig ran away. Along with "I cooked your food and cleaned your house".
My grandfather passed away last year and had us play this song at his funeral...never laughed at a funeral before but it'll be something that will never be forgotten
I think I would have really liked your grandfather. The world clearly lost a great man. I am sorry for your loss. I hope to meet that guy on the other side. I'll look for all the people having a good time and assume he's the ringleader. :)
Hi Harold! I hope you cause the odd bit of mayhem in your care home! I used to be a cleaner in care homes, and used to enjoy banter with the residents,but I'm 70 now, so I'm of the age myself
My mom playing this song and dancing around the house is one of my only good memories of my mom. She was happier when she played songs from her youth. The rest of the time she was miserable and made it all of our problem.
I 1st heard this , I was about 7 yrs. I'm 65 now. But I still can't get this song out of my mind. This took a very special kind of twisted to come up with this song. Personal, I think I may bee wn more twisted because I LIKE IT, since I was 7.
I remember singing this with my older sister when I was a child (sis is 10 years older than me). The classic foreshadowing is almost too much. Sis is a psychologist, but not a nice or kind individual - - where the evil kind of outweighs the crazy (it is what it is). And as she is approaching her 70's and still trying to hurt others, this song just popped into my head. Written for her, by her, about her. Wow.
I heard this song on the radio for the very first time 15 minutes after my mother was taken away in a straight jacket by nice young men in white coats. She spent the following 6 months in a mental hospital. That's what they did in those days when someone had a bad reaction to certain kinds of psychedelic drugs that doctors used to prescribe but are now banned.
As a 12 year old I would always fall asleep with the radio on-in the middle of the night when this song would come on I immediately woke up and struggled to turn the radio off-this song (and Night of the Minotaur) scared me senseless.
Tay F This dumbass meme makes no sense. If “nobody” said nothing then that means everyone said something. Just shut the fuck up you attention-seeking parrot
My mother would not let us play this record. We had a second cousin who had been hospitalized several times for mental illness. I do remember that the flip side of the 45 was the song recorded backward.
My cousin had a Dr. Demento CD with various songs from the show. This was one of the songs that was on it and I remember listening to it in the car whenever I’d pay a visit. Of course, being a kid in the mid-late 2000’s and early 2010’s, I had no idea what this song was about. As I grew up, I instantly realized it was a song about a guy being hauled off to a mental facility!
I really don’t like tiktok, it bugs me, and I knew this song from when I was younger and decided to look it up and now apparently tik tok has taken it? To the funny farm, probs.
OK so you wanna know what's funny...... I laughed at this comment and umm.... I was still listening to the song and UHHHHHH when I laughed, I laughed at the same time as the song...lol
My older brother , who would act as crazy as the song, would play this when I was a kid in the 70s over and over. He could really play the part and still did til he passed on my bday 3 years ago. We even played this at his celebration of life. But it's carried on by his oldest daughter and her kids, his grandchildren. Always gives us a chuckle . Who would've thought?
Napoleon XIV: You're laughing. I'm spiraling into madness and you're laughing. You think my descent into complete insanity is funny? The dog: Yeah, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
I remember listening to the "Dr. Demento" late-night radio show back in the early & mid 70's. This was one of the most popular songs they played. Good times!
Btw for anyone wandering what the "funny farm" and the "happy home" etc is referring to an asylum, since both names are alternative names for it. Just a little something for ya
For those not my age (72) here's some info: They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! is a 1966 novelty record written and performed by Jerry Samuels (billed as Napoleon XIV). This song fits our current crazed times of COVID19.
Thought of it as comical myself.Most teenagers (like myself)at the time thought it was cute.Let it all hang out ..was around the same time my mom recorded both.
I played it when we were going through some really rough times. Believe it or not, helped keep my sanity, as long as I didn't take it too seriously. Proverbs 17: 22 - Laughter is like a medicine.
I hadn’t heard this since I was a little kid. Ran across it, played it, and got the expected reaction out of my Fiancé, but our cat came in the room with his back all arched up and his hair standing up like what the hell is going on in here?!? LOL! Made my night… 😃
Once,when my dad was driving me home,the radio broke,and this started playing as it started to rain. Hearing this with static in a cold car when it was dark and raining was terrifying when I was 8
This song use to scare the crap outta me back in the mid 70s when i was a young kid. When his voice would change, and go up in pitch. And the parts where he would echo as he finished a verse. It just painted a scary picture in my head of this guy who kept saying, "They're going to take me away.." Still remember playing this on some record I had back then. It was unnerving. Even now listening to it, the kid inside still gets chills from it. Brings back sharp, crystal clear memories. But its a very memorable song. It got stuck in my head forever, ha ha ho ho hee hee.
Get the lyric right. It is "They're coming to take me away" not "They're going to take me away". Stop being a victim of false pretenses to fit your personal agenda.
I was looking through the comments to see if anyone else gets creeped out by this. Im also a child of the 70's. My daughter knows that it still scares me and she turns it on anyway 😆😠
@@twilightemily-afton4602 Why is it that I need to take multiple chill pills because I actually know the lyrics to a song? Explain to me why having accurate knowledge should somehow require me to apologize.
My mom said she heard this on the radio when she was Little and now they’re waiting to take me away! And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men (and women these days) in their clean white coats!!!
If I heard someone singing this i would go into my *flight-or-flight* responce. no that wasnt an auto correct or misspelling i would either *get out* or *GET TF OUT*
mental breakdown is also a good song for that as well... and to scare your family you can just plug it up to a speaker and play and ear rape sound track
I'm a total basket case. I've been in the nuthouse a few times for getting too drunk & raising hell. To cope with the other loons, I joke with the nurses by singing stuff like this.
My 80-some year old grandma still has the LP of this, and I used to play it all the time in the 1980s on her record player..creeped me out but it was awesome.
As I recall, the artist's name is Napoleon XIV. The song was released on a 45 rpm record, and its reverse side (the B side) was this same song...but in reverse....even the title.
To all the wives out there who go out to work every day and their husbands sit on there asses every day getting drunk on their wives dime. God Bless you Girls!
For a couple of years I worked at a state mental hospital. It was when this song was popular and it was often on someone's radio as the patients went about their day. They didn't seem to pay any attention.
Donna Nimmo Smith are u from the Bay Area? l remember that show! Or another radio station called, K.O.M.E. They used 2 say, Don't touch that dial, theirs kome on it! 😁
I played this for my grandchildren in 2022 and they loved it. One immediately started dancing to the beat. I remember it being a huge hit when I was a teenager.
My grandad owned a pub where we lived, and me and my sister loved this record and would ask my nanny(grandma) to play it on the pub jukebox. We were about 5 and 6 at the time, but thought it was hilarious!
I heard this song on the radio a long time ago and I thought it was hillarious, but I never knew who this "Napoleon XIV" guy was. I looked him up, and if anyone thinks this song is crazy, they should listen to "March Off To Bedlam." Oh man, THAT one is legitimately disturbing!
