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76 unusual facts about Ain


'Nuff Said!

“Do What You Gotta Do", written by Jimmy Webb, is a studio recording, also issued as the B-side to “Ain't Got No, I Got Life”.

Ain't but the One Way

Producer Stewart Levine was assigned to take control of the project, and do what he could to complete an album.

Ain't Got No, I Got Life

In 2010, research conducted by PRS for Music revealed that the song is the second most performed in UK television advertising for its use on Müller yoghurt adverts.

Ain't Got Nothin' on Us

"Ain't Got Nothin' on Us" is the title of a song written by Jim Robinson and Wendell Mobley, and recorded by American country music artist John Michael Montgomery.

Ain't It Cool News

Aint It Cool News was launched in 1996, and its name is attributed to a quote from John Travolta's character in the film Broken Arrow.

Ain't Leavin Without You

It was released to radio on October 23, 2009 and is the first single from his fifth studio album, Another Round.

Ain't Living Long Like This

Albert Lee – electric guitar, mandolin, piano, acoustic guitar, background vocals

Ain't Love a Bitch

Stewart released it on his 1978 album Blondes Have More Fun, and it was one of four songs on the album co-written by Stewart and Grainger.

Ain't Love Crazy

"Ain't Love Crazy" is a single by Welsh music duo Lilygreen & Maguire.

Ain't Necessarily So

"Ain't Necessarily So" is the title of a song written by Beth Nielsen Chapman, and recorded by American country music artist Willie Nelson.

Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up

"Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up", with Color Me Badd providing background vocals, is the third and final single from Paula Abdul's album, Head over Heels.

Ain't No Cure for Love

The song also played over the end credits of the movie "Kiss The Sky", from 1999, starring William Petersen, Gary Cole and Sheryl Lee.

Ain't No Doubt

Six years after his debut album, Nail revived his singing career during the success of his television drama series Spender.

Ain't No Nigga

According to Sony BMG A&R Nick Raphael, "Will Socolof of Freeze Records sent me a CD and a video and said to me, “This guy is incredible, but he needs a bigger label to take over. Are you interested?”

Ain't No Room for Talkin'

Ain't No Room For Talkin' is a mixtape by R&B group One Chance, released on May 24, 2011.

Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

The Chipmunks and The Chipettes covered this song for the album in the 2011 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, sung alongside Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and Katy Perry's "Firework".

Ain't No Trip to Cleveland Vol. 1

1 is a 2013 live album by United States indie/roots folk band Dispatch consisting of songs taken from performances since their reformation in 2011.

Ain't No Way

Years later, Houston's daughter Whitney Houston covered the track in concert during The Bodyguard World Tour and also performed it live on her 1997 HBO special, Classic Whitney Live from Washington, D.C., and the 1999 VH-1 Divas Live special as a duet with Mary J. Blige.

Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady

A different song with the same title was written by Floyd Rose and K.J. Q5's members, and recorded by Great White.

The second version is included on the 2002 Great White tribute album, Recover, with Russell singing an octave (or two) higher.

An apparent farewell to a self-absorbed lover, "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" was first recorded by its composer Harriet Schock who'd recall having written the first verse and title of "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" on a serviette "on an airplane as I was leaving someone for...one of the last times I left him for the last time".

Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens

The song was featured on the soundtrack for L.A. Noire, and was then included on a remixed version of the soundtrack with production by DJ Premier.

That background is retained in the 1931 Our Gang episode "Little Daddy", in which Farina and Stymie crawl inside an empty chicken coop to hide from a social worker who has come to take Stymie to the orphanage.

Ain't Nobody's Business

Author Peter McWilliams used the song and its theme as the title of his libertarian book, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in our Free Country.

Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent

The line "Ain't nothing goin' on now, but the rent-uh" appears in the 1972 James Brown hit Get on the Good Foot, Pt. 1.

Ain't Nothin' to Get Excited About

Although some tracks from the recording session were played by disc jockey Roger Scott on Capital Radio, to whom a tape was given, the fifteen-inch master tape was lost.

# "The Girl Can't Help It" (Bobby Troup) – 2:07

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

) Christian's 1986 live album release Live At Six Flags features "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" in medley with "Don't Worry Baby" and "I Go to Pieces".

Ain't She Somethin' Else

"Ain't She Somethin' Else" is a song written by Bill Rice and Jerry Foster, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty.

Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub

"Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub" is a song by British dance group Apollo 440, released as the second single from their sophomore studio album Electro Glide in Blue (1997).

It is based around a sample of the lead guitar line of Van Halen's 1978 song "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love".

Ain't That a Kick in the Head?

The song has been recorded by many performers, including Wolfgang Parker, Robbie Williams, David Slater, Westlife, Ray Quinn, and Hazell Dean.

The song is also sung by a wedding band in the season six episode "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request...."

"Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" is a song that was written in 1960 with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Ain't That a Shame

It was also included in the soundtrack for the 2010 video game Mafia II.

Ain't That America

"Pink Houses", a 1983 song by John Mellencamp (the chorus prominently features the phrase "ain't that America")

Ain't Too Proud to Beg

"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is a 1966 song and hit single by The Temptations for Motown Records' Gordy label, produced by Norman Whitfield and written by Whitfield and Edward Holland, Jr. The song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Pop Chart, and was a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B charts for eight non-consecutive weeks.

Arandas

Arandas, Ain, a commune in the department of Ain, France

Being Somebody

The band returned to the studio shortly after the release of their debut effort, Thinking It Over, and began by recording a collaboration with producer Richard X - a mash-up of classic tracks "Being Boiled" and "Ain't Nobody", entitled "Being Nobody".

Bernard of Vienne

Towards the end of his life, he enjoyed retiring to a spot on the banks of the Isere River, where the town of Romans is today.

Budka Suflera

After few member changes the band finally made in March 1974 to be their first major recording, "Sen o dolinie" as the Polish cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine".

Changes Come

"Lifelong Sunshine" is a medley of "Lifelong Fling" and "Ain't No Sunshine."

Collonges-Fort-l'Écluse – Divonne-les-Bains line

The only traffic on the line is a twice weekly household waste train from Chevry to the SIDEFAGE incinerator south of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine.

Come On You Reds

With Status Quo involved in the recording of the track, it was decided that the band's 1988 single "Burning Bridges" would form the basis of the song, with altered lyrics to suit the Manchester United theme.

Crans

Crans, Aincommune in the Ain département in France|département

Dinah Washington

Her first record for Mercury, a version of Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'", was another hit, starting a long string of success.

Drastic Fantastic

Some additional tracks features other unreleased songs such as Mothgirl, Bad Day and Journey, and during the Drastic Fantastic Tour, Tunstall covered La Vie En Rose, which is on the U.K Bonus tracks, My Sharona, The Bangles' Walk Like An Egyptian and Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody which features on the DVD.

Eduardo Verástegui

2001: Jennifer Lopez's "Ain't It Funny" (Alt. Version) (playing her love interest in the music video)

Good to Go Lover

The album spanned one big hit "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent", reaching number 1 on both the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts and number 42 on the pop chart.

Hawk Wolinski

He co-wrote or solely wrote their songs "Hollywood", "Street Player" (later recorded by co-writer Danny Serephine's band Chicago), "Everlasting Love" (not to be confused with the Robert Knight hit with the same title), "Do You Love What You Feel", and the 1983 hit single "Ain't Nobody," which reached #1 on the US Billboard R&B chart.

Inner Life

Inner Life was an American R&B/soul studio project of the post-disco era that enjoyed success with "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)" (1979) and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (1981).

Jacques Berthou

In 1995 he was elected as mayor of Miribel, being reelected in 2001 and 2008 and he has also been a member of the general council of Ain, representing the canton of Miribel, where he was elected at the first round of the voting, in 2004.

Jan Byrczek

# "Gee baby, ain't I good to you?"

Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan

Jean-Bernard Gauthier was born in a family of jurists in Bourg-en-Bresse (now Ain département) of France.

Jean-Marie Gonod

He started working in 1843 as a gardener apprentice at the chateau of Beauregard, Ain, In 1846 he moved to Lyon to complete his skills at the gardens of M. Crozy.

Live at Caesars Palace

#"Lady Sings the Blues Medley: Lady Sings the Blues / God Bless the Child / Good Morning Heartache / 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do"" (Billie Holiday, Ervin Drake, Porter Grainger, Arthur Herzog Jr., Dan Fisher, Irene Higgenbotham) - 7:24

Melissa Sgambelluri

Sgambelluri appeared in the first few minutes of the "Best of the Rest" episode of American Idol Season 6, where she sang Christina Aguilera's Ain't No Other Man and Ira Gershwin's Someone to Watch Over Me.

Migros

Migros opened its first foreign supermarket in the frontier region of France, in Thoiry, in 1993, and its first recreation park, Säntispark, at Abtwil in St. Gallen, in 1986.

Mother of George

Cinematographer Bradford Young won Sundance 2013's Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic for his work on this film and Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

Noor-ul-Ain

The tiara forms part of the Iranian crown jewels, held at the National Treasury of Iran in the Central Bank in Tehran.

The Noor-ul-Ain is believed to have once formed part of an even larger gem called the Great Table diamond.

That larger diamond is thought to have been cut in two, with one section becoming the Noor-ul-Ain and the other the Daria-i-Noor diamond.

One Million Kisses

The song is the second and final single from the album, the follow-up to "Ain't Nobody", both released as studio bonus tracks.

Onimusha

-- It is suggested that with production to take place in 2008, to refrain from recreating the film article until it is closer to the production start date and a cast has been established.--> In June 2007, Ain't It Cool News revealed that Takeshi Kaneshiro would be in the movie, reprising his role as Samanosuke.

Polish reggae

The first Polish reggae song was performed by the band Budka Suflera in 1974 - Sen o dolinie, music by Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine, Polish lyrics by Krzysztof Cugowski.

Sam Clayton

When Little Feat re-grouped Sam's voice became even more evident on songs like "The Ingenue" (from Representing the Mambo) and "Romance Without Finance" and "That's A Pretty Good Love" (from Ain't Had Enough Fun).

SexTV

The series uses two Leonard Cohen songs, "Everybody Knows" and "Ain't No Cure for Love", as theme music.

Slab Fork, West Virginia

Slab Fork is the birthplace of Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Bill Withers, who wrote and recorded popular songs such as "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean on Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Use Me" and "Lovely Day".

Stompin' at the Savoy – Live

The fourth side of the album included four new studio recordings of which two were released as singles, "Ain't Nobody" and "One Million Kisses".

Teri DeSario

"Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" from 1978 was DeSario's first hit single, written by Barry Gibb from her first album Pleasure Train, also released in 1978.

Barry Gibb heard her demo of original music and was so inspired by DeSario's vocals that he wrote a song for her called "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" and helped her obtain a recording contract.

The Hollywood Flames

Believed to be the first song to present the 6/8 piano-attacca known from later 50'es hits like Only You and Ain't That a Shame.

The Military High School, Al-Ain

The Military High School, located in Al Ain in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is a military school operated by INTERED a subsidiary of the SABIS/ International School of Choueifat.

The Paramounts

Mundy committed suicide in 1972, but left his possessions to Trower, including a painting of an album cover for an imaginary album by 'Liquorice John Death', which Mundy had called Ain't Nothin' to Get Excited About.

The Ultimate Live Experience

# "The Jam" (Includes "The Exodus Has Begun" lyric interpolation)

Under the Water-Line

Under The Water-Line is the debut album from the Dutch band Ten Sharp and contains the hit singles "You", "Ain't My Beating Heart" and "Rich Man".


Adele Wong

Wong is currently filming a Chinese-language television drama, He Ain't Pesky, He's My Brother, for MediaCorp's Channel 8 where she plays the lead female character opposite Christopher Lee premiering in July 2009.

Aïn Bénian

Aïn Bénian, Aïn Defla, a municipality or commune in Aïn Defla province, Algeria

Ain Blal

Ain Blal is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

Ain Orma

Ain Orma is a small town and rural commune in Meknès-El Menzeh Prefecture of the Meknès-Tafilalet region of Morocco.

Ali al-Khudair

--, conducted by Sheikh Aaid al-Qarn,--> Sheikh al-Khudair withdrew the fatwas he had issued declaring Turki al-Hamad, Mansour al-Naqeedan and Abdullah Abusamh as infidel, this according to Ain-al-Yaqeen in 2003,

Ambarri

Several communes in today's Ain department of France derive their name from them, including: Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ambérieux-en-Dombes, Ambutrix and Ambronay.

Bill Kennedy Shaw

In October 1930 Kennedy Shaw accompanied Ralph Alger Bagnold on a trip from Cairo to Ain Dalla, into the sand sea, past Ammonite hill then past the Gilf Kebir south to Uweinat and on to Wadi Halfa, returning via the Arba’in slave road via Salima oasis, Kharga and then Aysut.

Checotah, Oklahoma

American Idol Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood wrote a song on her album Some Hearts called "I Ain't in Checotah Anymore".

CIAT group

The headquarter and main industrial site is located in France, in Culoz department of Ain, between Lyon and Geneva.

Classic Moments

Released a year after her previous effort, Timeless Journey, the album peaked at number 24 on the pop albums chart and number five on the R&B albums chart, while her take of Aretha and Carolyn Franklin's "Ain't No Way", a duet featuring her and Mary J. Blige, hit the R&B charts peaking at number sixty-eight.

Connie Smith albums discography

In the early 70s, Smith released a series of albums including I Never Once Stopped Loving You (1970), Just One Time (1971), Ain't We Havin' Us a Good Time (1972), and If It Ain't Love and Other Great Dallas Frazier Songs.

Danny Says

Another reference in the song is to Christmas, reflecting the difference at that time of year between where the band were recording in Los Angeles and the Ramones' home town of New York City - "It ain't Christmas if there ain't no snow".

Dry As a Bone/Rehab Doll

It also includes the bonus tracks "Ain't Nothing to Do" (recorded in 1985), "Searchin'" (recorded in 1986), and "Queen Bitch" (recorded in 1987).

Eric Platz

Carrie Rodriguez: She Ain’t Me (EMI/Blue Note Record Group, NY, NY, 2008)

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Honoré d'Urfé

In 1908 a bust of D'Urfé was erected at Virieu-le-Grand (Ain), where the greater part of L'Astrée was written.

I Ain't No Bad Gal

I Ain't No Bad Gal is a compilation album by Blues singer Memphis Minnie produced for reissue in 1988 by Bob Thiele.

It Ain't Me Babe

Clinton Heylin reports that a Times reporter at a May 1964 Royal Festival Hall concert where Dylan first played "It Ain't Me" took the lines "no, no, no, it ain't me babe" as a parody of The Beatles' "She Loves You".

Joseph Crétin

He was born in Montluel, in the département of Ain, France, 19 December 1799; he died at St. Paul, Minnesota, 22 February 1857.

Lucille May Grace

Long declared that Boggs "ain't no communist or ain't one anymore and won't be influenced nearly as much by them communists as by his brother, who is a Catholic priest, and by old Archbishop Joseph Rummel in New Orleans who supported school desegregation."

Monsula

If you can see through it, it ain't coffee a four song 7" compilation released in 1990 on Very Small Records also featuring Filth, Fuel and Thumper with one song contributed by each band.

Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Volume 1

Track #2 "Such Love", #3 "Take Advantage", #6 "My Little World", #7 "Oh, My Dear (Something's Gone Wrong)", #8 "Can't We Tell", #10 "Oh, Ain't That Sweet", and again #11 "The Other Hours" are also recorded with vocal by Connick (featuring Kelli O'Hara), on CD2 of his double album "Harry on Broadway, Act I" from (2006).

P.S.K. What Does It Mean?

The drumbeat of the song, programmed on a Roland TR-909, is the basis of Siouxsie and the Banshees' song "Kiss Them for Me," and "Pearl" by Chapterhouse and a remix of "Ain't Nobody Stupid", written by Ne-Yo also sample the song.

Ras El Ain Chaouia

Ras El Ain Chaouia is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

Rodney Hicks

He has appeared in top regional theatres across the country varying in plays from King Lear, Lobby Hero through to Ain't Misbehavin' and Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Ronnie Van Zant

The band's national exposure began in 1973 with the release of their debut album, (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd), which has a string of hits and fan favorites including: "I Ain't the One", "Tuesday's Gone", "Gimme Three Steps", "Simple Man," and their signature song, "Free Bird", which he later dedicated to the late Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band.

Sri Lankan diaspora

Most expatriates from Sri Lanka, along with other immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, tend to be found in Dubai, although sizeable communities are existent in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Al-Ain and Ras al-Khaimah.

Steve Billirakis

While not a formal breach of the rules, ESPN commentator Norman Chad opined that such plays "ain't kosher" according to poker etiquette.

Take a Whiff on Me

The title of the song is quoted in the song "Dead Skunk" of Loudon Wainwright III, which contains the line: "take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose!"

The Tale of the Tape

Although no songs from the album reached the charts, the song "The Big Beat" has been notably sampled by hip hop artists, including Run-D.M.C.'s "Here We Go", Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half Steppin'", Jay-Z's "99 Problems", Dizzee Rascal's "Fix Up, Look Sharp", U.T.F.O's "Roxanne, Roxanne" and Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire".

Tim Colceri

He is most known for his role in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick classic Full Metal Jacket, where he played the door gunner who uttered the much-quoted lines "Get some!" (adopted as the byline for the 2008 movie Tropic Thunder) and "Ain't war hell?"

Tlemcen National Park

The park includes the forests of Ifri, Zariffet, and Aïn Fezza, the waterfalls and cliffs of El Awrit, and many archeological sites and the ruins of Mansoura, the ancient city on whose ruins Tlemcen was built, as well the Mosque of Sidi Boumediene, the patron saint of Tlemcen.