Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Song of the Day

Napoleon XIV: 'They're coming to take me away' - YouTube:

6 comments:

Don Coffin said...

Perhaps the greatest novelty song of all time, although there are those who will hold out for Boris and the Crypt-Kicker Five doing "The Monster Mash."

Jeff Meyerson said...

It's probably needless to say, but I have a 45 of this.

It was a huge hit but as it shot to #1 the radio stations got more and more protests about it. Finally they caved, and even though it was #1 they pulled it from the playlist.
Jeff

mybillcrider said...

I didn't know radio stations had pulled it. It sure got a lot of airplay for a while.

Jeff Meyerson said...

I don't know about elsewhere, but they did pull it in New York.

mybillcrider said...

I checked the Wikipedia article on the song. Interesting stuff.

Don Coffin said...

I count nearly 20 (!) cover versions. (Someone is crazy, and it's not me.)