Description RECORD DETAILS:Napoleon XIV - They're coming to take me away, ha, haa Warner Brothers WB 5831, 1965 VG+Now for a very strange record indeed. For no apparent reason songwriter/producer Jerry Samuels decided to put out a manic disc with lyrics about a man's descent into madness after his girl leaves him. To everyone's surprise it shot to the Top Five both in America and the UK, and was a big hit across Europe too!I doubt whether you'd get away with lyrics like "They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa, To the funny farm, Where life is beautiful all the time, And I'll be happy to see those nice young men, In their clean white coats" even in today's more tolerant age, as I suspect our do-gooders would see much more in it than a bit of harmless fun! He even followed it up with an equally brilliant song describing the events after his supposed madness, singing, in a child like voice "Thirty days have Septober, April, June, and no wonder, all the rest have peanut butter, all except my dear grandmother, she had a little red tricycle, I stole it, ha ha ha ha ha ha". The B side is the same as the A, but both printed and sung backwards, as is the B side label a mirror image - even down to the Warner Brothers logo at the top - a clever touch.The disc is supplied in VG+ condition and in an original Warner Brothers company sleeve.£3.50 Postage discounts - see below THE SMALL PRINT THE DISC and its COVER Pop, Easy Listening, Jazz, Reggae and Beat records are checked against Record Collector’s written or on-line Price Guide (rarerecordpriceguide.com), but Soul, Northern Soul and Motown records usually get a more accurate price from John Manship (raresoulman.co.uk). I use the categories Very Good, Excellent and occasionally Near Mint, with mid-points + or – if necessary. Detail information is obtained from the following highly recommended websites: 45cat.com, Discogs.com and Popsike.com, and the Guinness Book of Hit Singles. COMPLAINTS AND REFUNDS Ebay and all buyers please note: the majority of the item (s) for sale are between 40 and 60 years old, but are most definitely in the best possible condition for their age. I play all “A” and many “B” sides on a 1960’s Monarch deck, to make sure they sound OK. Most records will be supplied in an original Company sleeve, if at all possible, but if not a replica will be included. I know before a disc leaves my house that there is little, if any, problem with it so that should avoid most complaints. If anyone should find a record is not as described, I may have missed a test or it is more than possible that the defect could have been with the disc since it was pressed. DON’T LEAVE POOR FEEDBACK - CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY FOR REFUND. POSITIVE FEEDBACK WILL BE LEFT FOR YOU WHEN I KNOW THE ITEM HAS ARRIVED SAFELY AND HAS BEEN ACCEPTED. Honest Dave offers a 100% money back guarantee of purchase price and ALL postage, but only AFTER favourable feedback has been left for me. There have been far too many buyers across the Ebay Community receiving a full refund and then leaving negative or neutral feedback. Complaints to Ebay fall on deaf ears – that is if you can break the wall of silence they put round themselves - and so sellers must apply their own solutions, A few selfish individuals have spoilt the system for the rest. DO NOT send the item back unless requested to do so. If it isn't any good to you, then it certainly isn't for me, so you should dispose of it responsibly at your end. SPEED of OPERATIONS Please don’t ask for fast delivery or complain about slow postage by me – being disabled, with an inoperable slipped disc touching on my spinal cord, (they offered me 70/30 odds against surviving the operation!) and so dependent on friends, I do the very best I can. The record you get should be worth the wait. POSTAGE and PACKAGING for U.K. BUYERS DISCOUNTED POSTAGE RATES 1 – 5 singles (7”, 45 rpm records) are charged at the First Class Large Letter rate (20 cm x 20 cm x 1 cm, weight under half a kilo) according to the Post Office website, (£1.71). A small price of 29p is added for professional packaging, making the total postage just £2.00 for up to 5 discs. Larger parcels of singles and all LONG PLAYING RECORDS (LP’s - 12”, 33 rpm records, 34 cm x 34 cm x 2 cm, and of reasonable weight), will be sent by the courier firm myHermes. As before, a small packaging price of 37p will be applied so one LP will cost £3.50, then 2 or 3 LPs £4.50 and 4 or 5 LP’s £6.50. POSTAGE and PACKAGING for EUROPEAN BUYERS Postage and packaging rates for Europe start at £6.00, but please note that because of continued “lost” mail to countries in Eastern Europe, and also to Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, I will only use the Royal Mail’s International “Tracked and Signed” service, (rates starting from £13.00) for postage to these countries. Please enquire for actual cost BEFORE bidding and wait for an invoice at the end. POSTAGE and PACKAGING for OVERSEAS BUYERS “Tracked and Signed” rates apply to all countries outside Europe and will vary wildly by weight and carrier. I will find the best rates I can. Please ask for a rate BEFORE bidding and wait for an invoice.