Original version(s)

• Originally written for the opera Porgy & Bess, premiered in Boston in 1935

 

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Guitar (1988), quoted in It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary, performed in Pistoia, Italy, July 8, 1982

 

Tour(s) on which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1)

• September 1972 (Grand Wazoo)—known quotations: 1
• June-August 1974 (MOI)—known quotations: 1
• October-December 1980 (North America)—known quotations: 5
• September-December 1981 (North America)—known quotations: 1
• May-July 1982 (Europe)—known quotations: 2
• February-March 1988 (North America)—known performances: 1; known quotations: 3
• April-June 1988 (Europe)—known quotations: 1

 

Comments

A partial list of "It Ain't Necessarily So" quotations, compiled by Charles Ulrich

72/09/23 New York (Big Swifty)
74/07/21 San Carlos (Dupree's Paradise)
80/11/21 Normal (The Torture Never Stops)
80/11/26 (early) Detroit (during tune-up)
80/11/30 Des Moines (City Of Tiny Lights, Illinois Enema Bandit)
80/12/02 Fort Collins (City Of Tiny Lights)
81/11/28 Minneapolis (City Of Tiny Lights)
82/05/10 Gothenburg (RDNZL)
82/06/29 Linz (City Of Tiny Lights)
82/07/08 Pistoia (Pound For A Brown, as heard on Guitar)
84/12/06 Oklahoma City (Trouble Every Day)
88/02/10 Washington (sung by Daniel Schorr against King Kong vamp; also quoted in Dickie's Such An Asshole, Any Kind Of Pain, Oh No, Hot Plate Heaven)
88/05/19 Grenoble (King Kong)