WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:06.280 Hudson River Radio dot Com. 2 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:09.160 All right, I'd like to thank our sponsor, the US 3 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:12.320 Postal Service. When you want something expensive thrown on your 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.160 porch and stolen, you want the US Postal Service. 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:18.559 How does Sasa Jonnifer Leaesberry juice? 6 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:19.800 Hey, this is Tom Chapin. 7 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:22.199 Hello, this is preaching in Rock and Roll History Show. 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:23.239 You're listening right now. 9 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.600 Hey, everyone, welcome to the Rock and Roll History Show. 10 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.200 I'm Barbara Deal, host of Shaving Cream, taking the reins 11 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:39.200 from Bryan Horowitz tonight for part two of our insanity theme. 12 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.640 So before we get started, I'd like to introduce all 13 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:46.079 the cranbones that are joining us tonight and any of 14 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.079 the crambones that have been to my house for sator 15 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:51.759 already know are really terrible at this, so don't stop 16 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.240 me if you've heard these before, and pretend you didn't 17 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:56.399 keep it to yourself. 18 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.640 First and foremost, from the Richter Observatory. He used to hate. 19 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:07.840 Facial hair, but it grew on him. 20 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:13.400 Well, you know, like crazy Eddie. My facial hair. 21 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:18.079 Is insane, awesome. 22 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.599 For all you, for all your youngsters, just yeah, google it. 23 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.040 Oh, crazy Eddie is such a story in itself. 24 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:25.359 Yeah, that's true. 25 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:26.439 That's true. 26 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.439 The host of Van Noorma of Yours. 27 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.879 She once saw a burglary at an apple store and 28 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.280 became an eyewitness. Yl Nukam is here. 29 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:40.159 I love it, I love it. 30 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:45.480 Good stuff, Barbara, Hello everyone, The host of the Silver Screen. 31 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.640 She nearly walked into a bar, but she ducked just 32 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:49.519 in time for. 33 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:50.680 Sing here. 34 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.799 Damn it, Hey, everybody. 35 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.040 And last, but certainly not least. 36 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.719 He knows a lot of jokes about retired people, but 37 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:02.480 none of them work. 38 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:03.719 Ryan hark. 39 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.840 Nice, nice, nicely done, good ones. Barbara. 40 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:16.120 Okay, so last week we presented part one of Songs 41 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:21.599 about Insanity. Tonight we present part two. Yeah you're gonna 42 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:22.159 lead us up. 43 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.919 Okay. I learned something like I usually do when I 44 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:32.000 was doing the research for this, because I chose a 45 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:38.280 song called Crazy by NARLS Barkley. I thought Narls Barkley 46 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:42.560 was a stage name of one person, but no, it's 47 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:47.840 actually a duo composed of singer songwriter Cel Green and 48 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:53.719 producer Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name 49 00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:00.080 Danger Mouse. Oh yeah, I know right. They were at 50 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.080 least their debut studio album, Saint Elsewhere, which is what 51 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.120 You Know. The hit single Crazy is from in two 52 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:11.520 thousand and six. It peaked at number two on the 53 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:15.599 US Hot one hundred and it topped the UK Singles chart. 54 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.199 It was nominated at the two thousand and seven Grammy 55 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.280 Awards for Record of the Year and was platinum certified 56 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.120 for shipping over a million records. It also received a 57 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:34.360 nomination for Album of the Year. Supposedly the name behind 58 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:39.039 Narls Barkley does not have any kind of story of it, 59 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.319 but supposedly they just picked it out of nowhere. But 60 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:45.439 I'm kind of suspicious of that. 61 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.919 Well, isn't Charles Barkley, Who's like a. 62 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:57.120 That's what That's what is suspected, but for some reason 63 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:02.159 they won't cop to it. I don't know why. I 64 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:07.039 need to watch some of their videos, apparently because well 65 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.919 hopefully some of these are on video. Each live performance 66 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.919 is an opportunity that they take to play dress up 67 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:21.040 as tennis players, astronauts and chefs and other get ups. 68 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:23.240 They sound like a lot of fun. I would love 69 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:24.279 to do something like that. 70 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:25.560 Ooh cosplay. 71 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:30.759 Yes, the costuming extends to photo shoots, as Burton and 72 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:35.199 Celo would rather impersonate characters from such films as Back 73 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:39.199 to the Future or Wayne's World. Apparently, they have also 74 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.959 dressed up as characters from a Clockwork Orange, a Napoleon Dynamite, 75 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:49.680 what arrange. I need to look up some of their 76 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:51.000 videos really. 77 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:53.279 Now. 78 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:59.240 When they recorded this, there's an interview with journalists Just 79 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:04.759 Steven and he asked, both guys, is it true that 80 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:08.879 Celo recorded the vocals for Crazy in just one take? 81 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.079 So Dane tram Else replied, yeah, he had the words 82 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.759 written on paper and what you hear on the album 83 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.879 was the first time he ever tried singing it. He 84 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.399 went in and gave it a shot, really just to 85 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:24.439 see what it would sound like, and we kept it 86 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.399 because it sounded great. And when you hear the song, 87 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.839 you will hear Yes, it sounds great. I can't believe 88 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:35.319 they just did it for the first time and it 89 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.920 turned out wonderful. They did it in one take, which 90 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:44.000 is kind of amazing. They performed that song on their 91 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:47.800 television debut on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on May 92 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:54.959 twenty fourth. Now at the MTV Movie Awards two thousand 93 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.959 and six. On June eighth, two thousand and six, they 94 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.120 performed along with Christina Aguilera, a f I, and wolf Mother. 95 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:09.279 They were dressed as characters from the film series Star Wars, 96 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:18.319 Rebel Alliance pilots, Imperial Officers, Stormtroopers, Shoebaka Djago fat Obi Wan, 97 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:22.959 with ce Lo Green singing as an unmasked Darth Vader. 98 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.720 That sounds like a lot of fun. Let's give it 99 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:29.040 a listen and then I'll have a little bit more 100 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.279 info after the song. 101 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.759 I remember when I remember, I remember when I lost 102 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.480 my man. 103 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:43.199 Either your emotions. 104 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:50.120 Out an echo and so my space and when you 105 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:56.240 oh there with out there. Yeah, but it wasn't. 106 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:01.560 That just new too? 107 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:10.199 Who knowledge? Does that make me craze? Does that make 108 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:15.240 me cry? Does that make me cry? 109 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:18.959 So? 110 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.879 And have in your time of your life? 111 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:32.439 But they TWI. 112 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:36.839 That's my only advises. 113 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:40.519 Mm hmm. 114 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:41.959 Come on now, who do you? 115 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:43.040 Who do you? 116 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:43.560 Who do you? 117 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.079 Who do you think you are? 118 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:49.040 That's your soul? 119 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:53.720 You really think you're in control? 120 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:05.519 Well, I make your craze, I make your dis I 121 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:06.639 make your case. 122 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:10.160 She's like. 123 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.600 My little at the heart to the line. 124 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:26.879 I full, it's all I remember, just thinking it's gonna 125 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:27.279 be like. 126 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.919 M never since I was little, never since. 127 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:39.879 I was little, and looked like, Mom, it's a whole coinsistence. 128 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:40.639 I'm come. 129 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:49.600 And I can die when I'm dumb, but maybe I'm crazy. 130 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.440 Maybe maybe a case. 131 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.399 Pretty good for the first take, if I do say 132 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:29.240 so myself, Yeah you're prob. 133 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:34.159 Yeah, well you know sometimes sometimes that happens. They catch 134 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.200 lightning in a bottle like that, and the first take 135 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.440 is like the best one they get, even if they 136 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:42.759 even like if it's just a warm up. I think 137 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:45.639 the artists they're a little more relaxed. Well, well, this 138 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.279 isn't what's going on. You know, this isn't going. 139 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.679 On the record, So they just do it and have fun, and. 140 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.440 That ends up being the best take. So that wouldn't 141 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.480 have been the first time. There's there's a number of 142 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:01.879 instances where where that's happened. But and it helps to have, 143 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.919 you know, an insane amount of talent exactly and have 144 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:06.840 a voice like that. 145 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:10.399 So, I mean, I love it's got a nice bassline, 146 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:15.879 it's just really smooth, got a nice soul kind of vibe. 147 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:20.440 I just love it. What's funny to me is the 148 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:25.320 song itself was inspired by film scores of spaghetti westerns, 149 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:34.679 particularly the works of Ennio Morricone. Really yeah, and yet 150 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:40.440 the song Last Man Standing by Jean Piero rever Beri 151 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:45.840 and Gianfranco rever Beri from the nineteen sixty eight spaghetti 152 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:50.960 western Django Prepare a Coffin, which was apparently an unofficial 153 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:57.679 prequel to Jiango Crazy, samples that song and also uses 154 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.879 parts of the main melody and chords structure. So because 155 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:07.399 of that, the river Berries are create credited as songwriters, 156 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.000 along with Celo Green and Danger Mouse. That's doing it 157 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.480 the right way. The lyrics apparently developed out of a 158 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:23.200 conversation between Danger Mouse and Celo Green talking about going 159 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.639 They went off on some kind of tangent about how 160 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:30.679 people won't take an artist seriously unless they're insane. So 161 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.840 they started talking about ways that they could make people 162 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.320 think that they were crazy. I could think of a 163 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:42.279 whole bunch that would be really fun, but that's another story. 164 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.840 Celo took that conversation and made it into Crazy, which, 165 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.919 as I mentioned, was recorded in one take. I love 166 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:57.200 the song, It's just I like it a lot. 167 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:01.720 All right, Thank you very much, Gail. That was an 168 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:02.759 awesome leadoff. 169 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:03.600 Thank you. 170 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.679 We have to we have to take a quick break, 171 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.279 so stay tuned for more. Rock and Roll History Show 172 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.440 on Hudson River Radio dot com. 173 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:13.360 Hudson Riverradio dot com. 174 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:15.000 We always put the seat down. 175 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:17.480 This concludes the first part of this cassette. 176 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:20.679 Please turn the cassette over and begin again on side too, 177 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:29.840 Hudson Radio dot com. Onso Nicer Hop, We can't stop. 178 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:33.159 Welcome back to the rock and Roll History Show on 179 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.960 Hudson River Radio dot com. This is Barbaraville, a host 180 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:39.960 of shaving, Cream, Filling and for Brian Horowitz Tonight sharing 181 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:43.440 in all the craziness. Tonight's show is part two of 182 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:48.200 our insanity theme. So last week we heard They're Coming 183 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:53.159 to Take Me Away by Jerry Samuels aka Napoleon the Fourteenth, 184 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:57.039 which he chose because he liked the way the Roman 185 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:58.679 numerals looked together. 186 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:01.360 Why not? 187 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:02.600 Why not? 188 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:03.159 Right? Right? 189 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:07.360 We heard last week about his bio and some other 190 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:12.200 fun facts. But did you know that Jerry Samuels recorded 191 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:15.320 a sequel song called They're Coming to Get Me Again? 192 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.840 So in regard to They're Coming to take Me Away, 193 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:24.399 uh huh, Samuels is quoted as saying, the first and 194 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:26.679 only time I sang the song in front of a 195 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.759 live audience, I felt like I was being laughed at. 196 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:34.120 That was very hard for me to take. So there 197 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:34.639 you have it. 198 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:36.600 Uh wait, it's a funny song. 199 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:40.000 Yeah, yeah, I was Isn't that like a compliment? 200 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:42.240 Yeah? 201 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.399 I was a little disturbed when I read that, because 202 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:46.879 I kind of don't know what was going. 203 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:47.360 Through his mind. 204 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:51.200 If it was as serious from the heart song and 205 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:54.000 people laughed, yeah, then I think I'd go, you know, 206 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:59.960 consider a different career. But a comedy song and people laugh, 207 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.279 that's kind of the point, right, I don't see the problem. 208 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:07.919 Yeah, But now did he really mean it to be 209 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:09.320 a comedy song? 210 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:10.799 So now there's the question. 211 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:16.120 Yeah, so maybe he was really upset about his dog. 212 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:17.519 Who knows. 213 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.720 So. After the success of their Coming to Take Me Away, 214 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.879 Uh huh, Samuels had no luck trying to follow it 215 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.039 with the second album. He eventually dropped out of the 216 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:33.360 recording industry and made a living selling custom made roach 217 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:39.200 clips and other paraphernalia. In the mid nineteen seventies, he 218 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:43.240 moved to Philadelphia and began playing in piano bars. By 219 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.279 the nineteen eighties, he felt he had found his true calling, 220 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.000 playing and singing in nursing homes. 221 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:56.720 Oh boy, oh boy, it all comes. 222 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:58.360 It all comes full circle. 223 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:02.759 Then oh boy. 224 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:03.240 I'm sorry. 225 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.519 Yeah yeah, So whether those people laughed at him, I 226 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.720 have no idea. By the nineteen eighties, he felt he 227 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.279 had found his true calling playing in nursing homes, and 228 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.879 by nineteen eighty six, Rhino Records re released the now 229 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:20.000 out of print album They're Coming to Take Me Away 230 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.679 in honor of its twentieth anniversary. Some ten years later, 231 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:27.279 Rhino Records released a CD called This Second Coming. It 232 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:30.919 included all the tracks from Samuel's first album, along with 233 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.480 some other tracks he recorded that had previously failed to 234 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.879 make it onto a second album. Included on the album 235 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.039 was a sequel to Their Coming to Take Me Away 236 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.159 called They're Coming to Get Me Again. So let's revisit 237 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.639 the madness and enjoy this insane sequel. 238 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:53.679 Remember when they took me to the Funny Farm for 239 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:59.399 acting like a lunatic because you ran away? Well that 240 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:02.799 was me years ago, and now at last they've let 241 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.279 me out. I finally made them think I'm perfectly sane. 242 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:09.440 But they're coming to get me again. 243 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.159 Ha, They're coming to take me away again. 244 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.919 He oh, to the looney bin where life was ludicrous 245 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.799 all the time and I'm just crazy. About those big 246 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.200 strong cools with their clean lighting len because they're coming 247 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:22.120 to get me again. 248 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.759 I thought you were my friend, and so I trusted you, 249 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.039 believed in you the day you swore you'd always be 250 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:36.000 my pet. Bah, I trusted you. 251 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:36.559 You know, I did. 252 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.360 I did, I really did. 253 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.759 But then you did and I'm not really totally cure. 254 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.000 So they're coming to get me again. 255 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:45.480 Haha. 256 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:49.519 They're going to put me away again in the rubber 257 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:50.840 room with pleas and. 258 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:54.120 Towers and perfect nerves and simple bluppers who sweat and 259 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.799 sneer and swiggle and squeeze and squirt, and they're coming 260 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:57.679 to get me again. 261 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.000 I scrubbed your toes, I cleaned your cage, but all 262 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.440 you ever did was pay me back with cruel, unloving, 263 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:12.160 selfish deeds. Yes, well now I'm free, So just you wait. 264 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.960 I'll find you soon, and when I do, I'll swing 265 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:19.720 you by your tail, you hairy, And they're coming to 266 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.279 get me again. They're coming to take me away again, 267 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:24.559 Oh to. 268 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:25.400 The looney bin. 269 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.519 Well, life was ludicrous all the time, and I'm just 270 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.720 crazy and have the big strong goons with. 271 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:32.920 Their clean white lips, because they're coming to get me. 272 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:38.519 Ahead to the pleas there's towers of purping nerves and 273 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.759 simple coppers who sweat and slear and squiggle and squeeze 274 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.160 and squirk, and they're coming to get me again. 275 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.920 To the looney bin where life was ludicrous all the time. 276 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.640 And I'm just crazy about those big strong. 277 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.480 Coons with their queen white necks, because they're coming to 278 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:54.640 get me again. 279 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:57.400 To the happy home with. 280 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:01.319 Trees and flowers and chirping and birds and skidding. 281 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.680 When life was beautiful all the time. 282 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:14.079 Fawn, all right. 283 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.640 So this song did get some airplay on the Doctor 284 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.599 Demento show in the eighties and nineties as it had 285 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.039 been released as a single, even though Samuel just couldn't 286 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:27.400 get that second album going, and despite the airplay on 287 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.440 Doctor Demento, the song failed to chart. Unlike the original, 288 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:31.880 They're coming to take me away. 289 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:35.279 So I don't know. 290 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:37.720 The first one, you know, he does sound like he's, 291 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:40.400 you know, kind of having fun. This one he sounds 292 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:44.680 a lot more dark, serious about it, like like maybe 293 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.880 he wasn't kidding and maybe they should. You know, now 294 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:50.319 he sounds criminally insane. 295 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:57.279 Let's plus, they're putting him away with pimple poppers. 296 00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:59.200 They put it, they put it over the top. 297 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:00.839 Yeah, yeah, same. 298 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.119 Well the thing is, now now that we've got this, 299 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:08.720 this second song, he's already been to the Funny Farm, 300 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:11.920 and all that stuff that happened to him while he 301 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:18.119 was there has somehow colored his view, if you will, 302 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:21.680 So when he follows up with this one, it's a 303 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.720 whole different mood. 304 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:26.759 Well, don't don't. Don't they say that, you know, when 305 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:29.000 they put people in prison, they just come out like 306 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:32.519 better criminals. Well maybe when they put somebody away like 307 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:38.079 him into the Funny Farm, when they get out, they're 308 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:39.480 just more insane. 309 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:41.799 He's a better psycho, better. 310 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:46.519 Psycho if they don't take their meds or anything. 311 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:50.000 Yeah, I loved it. 312 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:51.160 I thought that was great. 313 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:54.880 I was actually very surprised to find out when I 314 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:57.559 was not for this show. But you know, when I 315 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:00.480 was looking into all this stuff for my show, I 316 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:05.279 was surprised that there was you know, follow ups, no idea. 317 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:07.319 Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to. 318 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.519 I may have heard it at some point, like like 319 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:13.119 you said, on a Doctor Demento episode or not, but 320 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:15.640 I really wasn't familiar with it. So I was I 321 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:19.359 was hearing it with new you know, fresh ears, and 322 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:23.240 I was like Wow, that is kind of he means 323 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:28.880 business now, that's right, all right? 324 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.559 Anybody have anything else to add? All right? Moving along? 325 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:39.200 Thank you? That was perfect all right? 326 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:43.319 So I wanted to mention that also included on the 327 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:46.720 album The Second Coming as a song called I'm Happy 328 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:47.759 They Took You Away? 329 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:51.559 Is that from the dog's point of view? 330 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:54.680 That might have been by. 331 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:58.759 A voiceover actress named Brina Rayburn who was born in 332 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:03.720 Jersey City on March fourteenth, nineteen fifteen, who called herself 333 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:11.440 Josephine the fifteenth. She was a big fan of radio 334 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.880 and was an expert in speaking in a variety of accents. 335 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:19.880 She frequently guested on NBC's Dimension X and the CBS 336 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:24.319 radio Mystery Theater. She also performed in four films and 337 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:29.480 recorded educational records, and although included on the Second Coming album, 338 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:33.359 I'm Happy They Took You Away, was originally recorded as 339 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:36.359 the closing track on Side too of the original nineteen 340 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:40.319 sixty sixth album, and as such, I believe it's also 341 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.279 the perfect way to close out Tonight's show. So let's 342 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:46.319 continue our downward spiral into madness. 343 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:50.079 Remember when I ran away and you got on your 344 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:53.160 knees and begged me not to leave because you build 345 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:57.119 the sack. Wait, you thought you had me fooled, But 346 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:58.400 I just led. 347 00:21:58.119 --> 00:22:01.839 You anyhow, because I know you were already out of 348 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.480 your mind. 349 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.880 And I'm happy they. 350 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:05.599 Took you away. 351 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:09.480 Ha ha, I'm happy they took you away, kid, to 352 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:12.680 be fully bound when life systemics all the time. 353 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:14.039 And you'll be sorry, I. 354 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:16.160 Said, those nice young name in the tree, right. 355 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:23.279 Honey, rock, I thought that you were nuts, and so 356 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:26.359 I laughed. I laughed when you had said that losing 357 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:28.240 me would make you flick your lip. 358 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.160 Right, It's true. I laughed. 359 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:32.759 You heard me laugh. I laughed. 360 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:34.559 I laughed and laughed, and then I. 361 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:39.240 Laughed because I know you're upply mad and I'm happy 362 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:40.240 they took you away. 363 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.839 Ha ha, I'm happy they took you away. Hold ha, 364 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:47.400 did they happy home with trees and towers and chaffing birds? 365 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:48.640 Can ask it me nots to. 366 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.640 Sleep and smell and threw them their throppy. 367 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.200 They trot you around, You. 368 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:58.680 Burned my food, you waked my house, and this. 369 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.640 Is how I paid you for all your pool. 370 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:05.839 And loving selfish deeds. Yeah, they've got you now, and 371 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:08.960 you will get just what you'll deserve for calling. 372 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:09.400 Me and much. 373 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:14.799 You mean, you mon, I'm happy they took you away. 374 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:19.279 I'm happy they took you away. Did do they plenty 375 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:23.039 found where lives. He's character all different and you'll be sorry, 376 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:25.319 I said, those nice young men and that couldn't like. 377 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:31.720 To the happy hold who's pleased and flowers. I'm chopping 378 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.400 doves and just give meet us. 379 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:35.359 Who sit and smile and hidden their puns. 380 00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:37.319 And come they took your home. 381 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:42.039 Give me funny found where life's systemic and all all right? 382 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:44.240 As you may have guessed. 383 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:48.240 Rina Rayburn chose the name Josephine the fifteenth because she 384 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:51.200 believed it to be a perfect counterpart to Jerry Samuel's 385 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:52.839 Napoleon the fourteenth. 386 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:53.720 That was brutal. 387 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:59.799 Yeah, the colors, I feel like they didn't. 388 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:04.599 He didn't record the like the the tuning went up 389 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:06.880 and down. Whatever you were talking about before. 390 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:09.359 Oh it did a little bit. 391 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:13.000 Theatre is different, Yeah, yeah, the temples a little faster. 392 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.519 It's a shorter cut too, so they changed it around. 393 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.039 It sort of sounded like Lisa Douglass from Green Acres. 394 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:28.839 This has been a film's presentation. 395 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.079 Nobody, nobody knows what we're talking about. 396 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:38.519 I was just about to tell how old we. 397 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:44.000 All are Green Acres Google it is? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 398 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.599 I think it was a French poodle. I'm going with 399 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:47.960 I'm going with a French poodle. 400 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:48.799 I think so too. 401 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:53.039