Performance: It Ain't Necessarily So

Performed by

John W. Bubbles

Performance date

October 10, 1935

First performed

In stage production Porgy and Bess

Comments

Sung by the character "Sportin' Life" backed by the ensemble.

Rating

Song info

Song

It Ain't Necessarily So

Music written by

George Gershwin

Lyrics written by

Ira Gershwin

First performance

It Ain't Necessarily So by John W. Bubbles in stage production Porgy and Bess (October 10, 1935)

First release

It Ain't Necessarily So by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians on audio single It Ain't Necessarily So (1936)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	It Ain't Necessarily So	John W. Bubbles	October 10, 1935 (performance date)
2	It Ain't Necessarily So	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	1936
3	It Ain't Necessarily So	Paul Robeson	1938
4	It Ain't Necessarily So	Maxine Sullivan and Her Orchestra	1939
5	It Ain't Necessarily So	Todd Duncan	1940
6	It Ain't Necessarily So	Aaron Bridgers	1950
7	It Ain't Necessarily So	Cal Tjader	1955
8	It Ain't Necessarily So	Ray Anthony	1955
9	It Ain't Necessarily So	Charlie Shavers	1956
10	It Ain't Necessarily So	Peggy Lee	1956
11	It Ain't Necessarily So	Lou Levy	1956
12	It Ain't Necessarily So	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	1957
13	It Ain't Necessarily So	Eddie Vinson	1957
14	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Delta Rhythm Boys	January 1958
15	It Ain't Necessarily So	Miles Davis	1958
16	It Ain't Necessarily So	Bobby Darin	March 1959
17	It Ain't Necessarily So	Ralph Burns & His Orchestra	1959
18	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Ramsey Lewis Trio	1959
19	It Ain't Necessarily So	George Rhodes	1959
20	It Ain't Necessarily So	Sammy Davis Jr.	1959
21	It Ain't Necessarily So	Diahann Carroll and the Andre Previn Trio	1959
22	It Ain't Necessarily So	Lena Horne with Lennie Hayton and His Orch.	1959
23	It Ain't Necessarily So	Mundell Lowe and His All Stars	1959
24	It Ain't Necessarily So	Hank Jones	1959
25	It Ain't Necessarily So	Arne Domnérus and His Orchestra	1959
26	It Ain't Necessarily So	Bill Potts Big Band	1959
27	It Ain't Necessarily So	Pearl Bailey	1959
28	It Ain't Necessarily So	Neville Taylor	January 1960
29	It Ain't Necessarily So	Art Farmer & Benny Golson	1960
30	It Ain't Necessarily So	Aretha Franklin	February 1961
31	It Ain't Necessarily So	Svend Asmussen & Ulrik Neumann	1961
32	It Ain't Necessarily So	Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings	1961
33	It Ain't Necessarily So	King Curtis	1961
34	It Ain't Necessarily So	Herbie Mann	1962
35	It Ain't Necessarily So	Barney Kessel Plus Big Band	1962
36	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Francis Bay Orchestra	1962
37	It Ain't Necessarily So	Walt Dickerson	1962
38	It Ain't Necessarily So	Duffy Power	February 1963
39	It Ain't Necessarily So	Brother Jack McDuff	June 5, 1963
40	It Ain't Necessarily So	Georgia Brown	1963
41	It Ain't Necessarily So	Freddie Roach	1964
42	It Ain't Necessarily So	Pete Jolly	1964
43	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Honeycombs	1964
44	It Ain't Necessarily So	P.J. Proby	1965
45	It Ain't Necessarily So	Avon Long and Margaret Tynes	1965
46	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Modern Jazz Quartet	1965
47	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Junior Mance Trio	1965
48	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Moody Blues	1965
49	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Beefeaters	1966
50	It Ain't Necessarily So	Edmond Hall	1967
51	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Soulful Strings	1968
52	It Ain't Necessarily So	Classics IV	1969
53	It Ain't Necessarily So	George Mraz in Duet with Roland Hanna	1976
54	It Ain't Necessarily So	Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band	1977
55	It Ain't Necessarily So	Joe Pass	1981
56	It Ain't Necessarily So	Bronski Beat	1984
57	It Ain't Necessarily So	Gevleugelde vrienden	1987
58	It Ain't Necessarily So	Jim Cullum Jazz Band	1987
59	It Ain't Necessarily So	Lee Konitz & Franco D'Andrea	1989
60	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Jody Grind	1990
61	It Ain't Necessarily So	Dave Van Ronk	1990
62	It Ain't Necessarily So	Andy Bey	1991
63	It Ain't Necessarily So	Cher	July 1994
64	Ain't Necessarily So	Carol Kidd	1994
65	It Ain't Necessarily So	Burnett Thompson	1994
66	It Ain't Necessarily So	Marcus Roberts	1994
67	It Ain't Necessarily So	Colm Wilkinson and The London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Mike Batt	1995
68	It Ain't Necessarily So	Susannah McCorkle	April 7, 1998
69	It Ain't Necessarily So	Rick Stepton Sextet	May 26, 1998
70	It Ain't Necessarily So	Finley Quaye	October 6, 1998
71	It Ain't Necessarily So	Eddie Henderson Quintet	1998
72	It Ain't Necessarily So	Jack Jezzro	1998
73	It Ain't Necessarily So	Herbie Hancock	1998
74	It Ain't Necessarily So	Janet Seidel and William Galison	2001
75	It Ain't Necessarily So	Jamie Cullum	July 23, 2002
76	It Ain't Necessarily So	Marc Copland Trio	2002
77	It Ain't Necessarily So	George Winston	May 18, 2004
78	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Dick Fregulia Trio	2007
79	It Ain't Necessarily So	Bennett Harris	August 27, 2008
80	It Ain't Necessarily So	Molly Johnson	2008
81	It Ain't Necessarily So	Caroline [1]	2008
82	It Ain't Necessarily So	Laurent Korcia	March 2009
83	It Ain't Necessarily So	Asylum Street Spankers	October 6, 2009
84	Medley - Summertime / I Loves You, Porgy / I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' / It Ain't Necessarily So	Brian Wilson	August 17, 2010
85	It Ain't Necessarily So	Rosemary Standley	January 25, 2011
86	It Ain't Necessarily So	The Tierney Sutton Band	September 6, 2011
87	It Ain't Necessarily So	Tok Tok Tok	September 20, 2012