There Ain't No Sanity Clause
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{{Infobox Single
| Name = There Ain't No Sanity Clause
| Cover = The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Clause.jpg
| Artist = [[The Damned]]
| B-side = "Hit or Miss" <br/> "Looking at You (Live)"
| Released = November [[1980]]
| Format = [[Gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = [[1980]]
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Label = [[Chiswick Records|Chiswick]] <br/> <small>CHIS 125</small>
| Producer = [[Hugh Jones (producer)|Hugh Jones]]
| Last single = "[[The History Of The World Part 1]]" <br/> (1980)
| This single = "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" <br/> (1980)
| Next single = "[[Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (song)|Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde]]" <br/> (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 Records|Chiswick]]. However, [[Chiswick Records|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 (Damned)|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 (film)|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==
* '''[[Record producer|Producer]]s''':
** [[Hugh Jones (producer)|Hugh Jones]]
* '''[[Musician]]s''':
** [[Dave Vanian]]: [[Singer|Vocals]]
** [[Captain Sensible]]: [[Guitar]]
** [[Rat Scabies]]: [[Drum]]s
** [[Paul Gray (musician)|Paul Gray]]: [[Bass guitar|Bass]]
[[Category:1980 singles]]
[[Category:The Damned songs]]