Napoleon XIV has been played on NTS shows including Ross Allen, with They;'re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! first played on 19 July 2018.

Napoleon XIV was the pseudonym of record producer Jerry Samuels (b. 1938 New York City) who had moderate success with his composition "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" when first released in 1966 (reaching #4 on the UK Singles Chart that year). He achieved a blockbuster success with the record when it was re-issued by Warner Brothers Records in 1973.

The first single Samuels made was in the late 1950s and was called "Puppy Love". As Napoleon XIV, Samuels recorded…