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 It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary (Gershwin/Gershwin/Primrose)

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From: Charles Ulrich <ulrich@sfu.ca>
  This track was recorded in Pistoia, Italy, on July 8, 1982. It is another solo from "Pound For A Brown", played on the custom Strat. At this show (and one a few days earlier), the "King Kong" vamp was inserted into "Pound For A Brown".
  FZ and the band quote two standards from the first half of the twentieth century. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (0:10-0:29, 4:18-5:03) was written in 1935 by George Gershwin (with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward) for the opera Porgy and Bess. "Saint James Infirmary" (0:32-0:53) was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1928 and by Cab Calloway in 1930. It was credited to Joe Primrose, who actually just arranged a traditional song entitled "Gambler's Blues". At the same concert in Pistoia, FZ quoted Gershwin's "Summertime" in his "City Of Tiny Lites" solo.
  [at the end (4:18-5:03), does FZ play two choruses of "It Ain't Necessarily So", or does he play one chorus of each song (as at the beginning)? And are these songs really this similar, or is it just the way he plays them?]
From: "Román" <donlope@ono.com>
  As I remember it (I mean when I did a little research about this some time ago, not that I was there in any form, physical or spiritual, of course), DuBose Heyward just wrote the libretto for the opera (and maybe the lyrics for some other songs), but the lyrics for "It Ain't Necessarily So" were written by Ira Gershwin alone.
From: "Román" <donlope@ono.com>
  I think usually they list _Porgy & Bess_ with "lyrics by DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin" without more detail. I've just found a page (as usual I haven't found where I had the original information, as I thought it was the Miles Davis' album, but it isn't) with the credits of a Diahann Carroll album (whoever she is, as far as I can tell) which gives more specific information about the authors of the lyrics of _Porgy & Bess_:
Summertime (DuBose Heyward / George Gershwin)
My Man's Gone Now (DuBose Heyward / George Gershwin)
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / George Gershwin)
Porgy, I Is Your Woman (Bess, You Is My Woman) (Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / George Gershwin)
Oh, I Can't Sit Down (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin)
It Ain't Necessarily So (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin)
What You Want Wid Bess (DuBose Heyward / George Gershwin)
I Loves You Porgy (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin)
There's Somebody Knockin' (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin)
There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York (Ira Gershwin / George
Gershwin)
  (This is the page where I took that: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/9536/discography/porgy.html
  And here's another with credits from an Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong album: http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/gershwin/ItAintNecessarilySo.txt)
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