It Ain’t Necessarily So

Name: It Ain’t Necessarily So
Duration: 4 min 28 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
2.14	It Ain’t Necessarily So	4:28	George Gershwin	George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess	George Gershwin; Mel Tormé, Frances Faye, The Bethlehem Orchestra, Russ Garcia, The Stan Levey Group, The Australian Jazz Quartet, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra	Album	US1956	Bethlehem Records (US jazz label, active 1950s–)	EXLP 1, EXLP-1
1.34	It Ain’t Necessarily So	4:28	George Kirby	George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess	George Gershwin; Mel Tormé, Frances Faye, The Bethlehem Orchestra, Russ Garcia, The Stan Levey Group, The Australian Jazz Quartet, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra	Album	US1999-09-14	Avenue Jazz	R2 75828

orchestra:	The Bethlehem Orchestra
conductor:	Russ Garcia

recording of:	Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. “It ain’t necessarily so”

lyricist:	Ira Gershwin DuBose Heyward
composer:	George Gershwin (composer) (from 1934 until 1935)

later versions:	It Ain’t Necessarily So (jazz standard originally from Porgy and Bess; catch-all for unspecified pop and jazz arrangements)
part of:	Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II (order: 2)
arrangements:	Porgy and Bess Suite: “It ain’t necessarily so” (for brass; arr. Alan Fernie) Porgy and Bess: It Ain’t Necessarily So (for piano and violin, arr. Heifetz)