Songs Performed or Written by Napoleon XIVTop Songs / Chart Singles Discography

Jerrold "Jerry" Laurence Samuels (May 3, 1938 – March 10, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and talent agent. Under the pseudonym Napoleon XIV, he achieved one-hit wonder status with the #3 hit novelty song "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" in 1966. Samuels occasionally revisited the Napoleon XIV character to record other songs, usually comedy records with an insanity theme. Under the name Scott David (his son's name), he cowrote "As If I Didn't Know" with... [more on Wikipedia]

Top songs: #1: They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - #2: The Shelter of Your Arms - #3: To Ev'ry Girl - to Ev'ry Boy - #4: They're Coming to Take Me Away
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  Johnnie Ray
1.
1954
#3  To Ev'ry Girl - to Ev'ry Boy
Johnnie Ray

42 pts
26
US






written by Jerry Samuels greentick & Sol Parker
  Sammy Davis Jr.
2.
11/1963
#2  The Shelter of Your Arms
Sammy Davis Jr.

from The Shelter of Your Arms   
113 pts
17
US
6
AC
3
R&B


[Reprise 20216]
written by Jerry Samuels greentick
  Napoleon XIV
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
3.
07/1966
#1  They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
Napoleon XIV greentick

291 pts
3
US




4
UK
[Warner 5831]
written by Jerry Samuels greentick
They're Coming to Take Me Away
4.
09/1973
#4  They're Coming to Take Me Away
Napoleon XIV greentick

8 pts
87
US






R
[Warner 7726]
written by Jerry Samuels greentick

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