There Ain't No Sanity Clause
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| “There Ain't No Sanity Clause” | |||||
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| Single by The Damned | |||||
| B-side | "Hit or Miss" "Looking at You (Live)" |
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| Released | November 1980 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | 1980 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Label | Chiswick CHIS 125 |
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| Producer | Hugh Jones | ||||
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There Ain't No Sanity Clause was a single by The Damned.
The song was a tongue-in-cheek rock song released with an eye on the lucrative Christmas market, but failed to chart.
The single was the last new material to be released by the band on Chiswick. However, Chiswick would continue to reissue singles by The Damned culled from existing material on their Big Beat imprint, including "Wait for the Blackout", "Lively Arts", reissues of "Love Song" and "Smash It Up", and a remixed version of "There Ain't No Sanity Clause".
The title of the song is derived from a scene in the Marx Brothers' 1935 movie A Night at the Opera. Groucho Marx is attempting to explain the intricacies of a business contract to Chico Marx. When Groucho mentions the Sanity Clause, Chico responds, "You can't fool me, there ain't no sanity clause."
[edit] Track listing
- "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Dadamo)
- "Hit or Miss" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray)
- "Looking at You (Live)" (MC5)
