Talk:Napoleon XIV

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[edit] Redundancy

This page contains basically the whole They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! song article... AnonMoos 17:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. --Dhartung | Talk 20:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

All recording info is sourced first hand directly from the original released recordings. The remark concerning Barry and Sol Parker songwriting credit is taken directly from Jerry Samuels, himself, via a series of 2 separate telephone interviews from 2006. FredClem (talk) 01:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I removed the following text - it almost mirrors the excellent claptrap of the famous song (more please of that sort of nonsense for all of us to enjoy) - but as a encyclopedic entry it is, at best, bollocks -

"Napoleon XIV" name origin alternative: While the "Napoleon" origin is obvious (from "Napoleon Bonaparte", as evidenced in the writer's credit of TCTTMA,HH, shown as "N. Bonaparte"), the "XIV" portion may have been inspired elsewhere (other than from "Louis XIV").

Jerry Samuels released his very first recording on the VIK label in 1956. The VIK label, when backwards, becomes KIV. The "K", when mirrored (as was the label of his 1966, and 1973, WB single release), becomes something of a twisted "X", or "XIV". The Vik label, an RCA subsidiary, was formerly known as "X" a few months earlier, with some later "X" issues going on to be re-issued on the Vik label (using the same "X" original catalogue numbers).

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 23:45, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I undid the edit because I feel that it offers a more definitive origin to his name. I have never felt the "XIV" origin of his name being related to Louis XIV as being definitive, but more speculative. I find no actual documentation to support that claim. I offered physical evidence to support my own, but it was removed as an alleged infringement of copyright (which I still disagree with since I felt it was within the rules of Wikipedia for fair usage a copyrighted image: low resolution, etc.). FredClem (talk) 01:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I just removed it as obvious speculation, and when I came here to deposit it, I saw that it was already removed before. As FredClem says, "I feel that it offers a more definitive origin to his name. I have never felt the "XIV" origin of his name being related to Louis XIV as being definitive, but more speculative." -- By definition this is original research, and a discussion could proceed here, but it shouldn't be in the article. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 17:30, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article name

An article that should be named Jerry Samuels should contain this content, as this content addresses Jerry's whole songwriting career. The Napoleon XIV should either contain the specific content related to that nom de plume and link to Jerry, or the whole Napoleon XIV article should redirect to Jerry Samuels. Group29 (talk) 16:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)