The town was the setting for the first four series of the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, set in 1945.
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In the well known song "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, the character Sportin' Life expresses skepticism about the veracity of several Biblical stories, including this one: "Li'l Moses was found in a stream/Li'l Moses was found in a stream/He floated on water/Till Ol' Pharaoh's daughter/She fished him, she said, from dat stream".
Two charting singles were released from the album, "Just Be Straight with Me" (featuring Master P and Destiny's Child), and "It Ain't My Fault" (featuring Mystikal).
The most famous fictional examples are perhaps Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Brynne 'Shut Up' Williams, portrayed by Windsor Davies in the 1970s sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Company Sergeant Major Percival Bullimore and Company Sergeant Major Claude Snudge played by William Hartnell and Bill Fraser, respectively, in the 1958-63, Granada television comedy series, The Army Game.
He eventually landed the role of Gunner "Lofty" Sugden in the 1970s British sitcom, It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
By 1968, The Turtles had had a number of successful pop records on the White Whale label, including Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe", "Happy Together" and "She'd Rather Be With Me", both written by Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon.
Wendell later became a well-known songwriter and entertainer in the 1920s, being mainly remembered today for popularizing the tune "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'".
"It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" is the title of a song that is entirely the creation of the "Red-Headed Music Maker", guitarist and vocalist Wendell Woods Hall (1896–1969).
Wilbur Hoolihan (Lou Costello) accidentally kills a hack horse owned by King O'Hara (Cecil Kellaway) and his daughter, Princess (Patsy O'Connor) by feeding it candy.
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".
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Baez's version appeared on Joan Baez/5, which also included "Go 'Way From My Window."
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Dylan's biographers generally agree that the song owes its inspiration to his former girlfriend Suze Rotolo.
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In the film Blow, George Jung (played by Johnny Depp) recites a line from "It Ain't Me Babe" while on trial for marijuana possession with intent to distribute.
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This song was also featured in the 2005 film about Cash's life, Walk the Line, and was performed by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon on the film's soundtrack.
Introduced by Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band into the contemporary New Orleans brass band repertory, it has become a standard, recorded by the Treme Brass Band, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and many others.
It subsequently opened in New York at the New Victory Theater in March 1999 for a limited run, and then transferred to Broadway.
The music video, directed by Jesse Dylan, features Kravitz and his band performing the song.
British TV classic comedies, such as It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Get Some In! and full length cinema films of that epoch like Privates Progress and Carry on Sergeant habitually made fun of jankers, as have memoirs of life in the armed services.
In 1963, in a studio recording of Porgy and Bess featuring Leontyne Price and William Warfield, he performed Sportin' Life's two main arias from the opera, "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York".
Their first album, The Magnificent Moodies, yielded a #1 UK hit (#10 in the US) with "Go Now." The album also featured Thomas singing lead vocals on a cover of George and Ira Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So", which was originally from the musical Porgy and Bess.
The host for many years was the banjo-playing vocalist Wendell Hall, "The Red Headed Music Maker," who wrote the popular "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" (Victor Records).
In 1923, he released the song "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'", which sold over two million copies in the United States.
"Where's Ya Little Sista?" is the second and final single from Another Bad Creation's second album It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It.