There Ain't No Sanity Clause

Infobox Single
Name = There Ain't No Sanity Clause


Artist = The Damned
B-side = "Hit or Miss" "Looking at You (Live)"
Released = November 1980
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1980
Genre = Rock
Label = Chiswick CHIS 125
Producer = Hugh Jones
Last single = "The History Of The World Part 1" (1980)
This single = "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" (1980)
Next single = "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" (1981)

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."

Track listing

# "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Dadamo)
# "Hit or Miss" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray)
# "Looking at You (Live)" (MC5)

Production credits

* Producers:
** Hugh Jones

* Musicians:
** Dave Vanian: Vocals
** Captain Sensible: Guitar
** Rat Scabies: Drums
** Paul Gray: Bass