Back in the olden days, I used to go to the tavern a lot ~~ not to drink mind you, but to enjoy the Royal Crown Cola, John's homemade pizza, and the company of good friends who were there, usually after a high school basketball game. You could NOT spend more than an hour without hearing IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER!!!!! in that wonderfully raucous version by Clean Living at least once, and likely more. One day I decided to punch up the other side and discovered what I'd call the real Clean Living, a really nifty song called Backwoods Girl. That is when I decided I had to have the album. Here almost 30 years later, I still have it (and play it), though I do wish Barbara had not reminded me how really long ago it was! If you can find it, I'd recommend it. VANGUARD 79318, I've seen it listed at used lp sites anywhere from $14 to $20, with the single priced in the $4-$5 range, but if you bought the single you'd miss all the other good stuff, none of which is anything like IHTINB.

You can hear a sound sample of the Clean Living version on Dr. Demento: 25th Anniversary Collection courtesy of CDNow. (I'm not going to bother with breaks here, it should be readable without them)

Disc1 01. Smells Like Nirvana - "Weird Al" Yankovic Cobain/Nirvana

02. Heartbreak Hotel - Stan Freberg Axton/Durden 03. The Curly Shuffle - Jump 'N The Saddle Quinn 04. Rubber Biscuit - The Chips Johnson 05. The Martian Boogie - Brownsville Station Koda/Lutz 06. Fast Food - Stevens & Grdnic Grdnic/Stevens 07. Car Phone - Sheeler & Sheeler Davis/Fries 08. Highly Illogical - Leonard Nimoy Grean/Hertz 09. One More Minute - 'Weird Al' Yankovic Kankovic 10. No, I Don't Wanna Do Dat - The Happy Schnapps Combo Krueger 11. Dance Of The Hours - Spike Jones & His City Slickers Ponchielli 12. My Dead Dog Rover - Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank Landsberg 13. There's A New Sound - Tony Burrello Burrello/Murray 14. When I Was A Dinosaur - Trout Fishing In America Armer/Egan 15. The Old Philosopher - Eddie Lawrence Lawrence 16. Happy Boy - The Beat Farmers Becker/Conover 17. Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me - Tiny Tim Burke/Dubin 18. Shaving Cream - Benny Bell Bell

Disc2 01. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants Flansburgh

02. Sensitive New Age Guys - Christine Lavin Gorka/Lavin 03. The Hunting Song - Tom Lehrer With Orchestra Lehrer 04. Achy Breaky Song - 'Weird Al' Yankovic 05. In Heaven There Is No Beer - Clean Living Newbach/Siegel 06. I Gotta Get A Fake I.D. - Barnes & Barnes, With Friends Barnes/Barnes 07. Peter The Meter Reader - Meri Wilson Bearman 08. Everybody Wants My Fanny - Benny Bell Bell

09. Entering Marion - John Forster Forster 10. 'Cause I'm A Blonde - Julie Brown Brown/Coffey

11. Leader Of The Laundromat - The Detergents Pockriss 12. Song Of The Sewer - Art Carney Dubey/Karr 13. Mr. Custer - Larry Verne Darion/DeLory 14. Second Week Of Deer Camp - Da Yoopers DeCaire/Potila 15. Timothy - The Buoys Holmes 16. Stardrek - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara Ferrara/Pickett 17. Three Little Pigs - Green Jelly Levinthal/Manspea

18. Moose Turd Pie - Utah Phillips Public Domain