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Released on Columbia, also Chop Suey! (System of a Down), Toxicity (System of a Down) and Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Written by Count Basie, also Good Bait (Nina Simone), Jumpin’ at the Woodside (Duke Ellington) and Harvard Blues
Written by Jack Palmer, also (Hep‐Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive (Cab Calloway and His Orchestra), I Found a New Baby (The Benny Goodman Sextet) and Everybody Loves My Baby (Brigitte Bardot)
Written by Buster Harding, also We the Cats (Shall Hep Ya) (Joe Jackson), Hey, Pete (Dizzy Gillespie) and Mr. Roberts' Roost (Count Basie)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Jack Palmer’s most frequent co-writer is Cab Calloway (5 songs together)
Buster Harding’s most frequent co-writer is Jack Palmer (3 songs together)
Jack Palmer first appears on fono in 1939, 54 years before this song
Buster Harding first appears on fono in 1947, 46 years before this song
Credits
All 5 credits
- Written by
- Buster Harding, Count Basie and Jack Palmer
- Released on
- Columbia
- Written by
- Buster Harding, Count Basie and Jack Palmer
- Released on
- Columbia
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Count Basie
Same writer: Jack Palmer
Same writer: Buster Harding
Same label: Columbia
Same writer: Count Basie
Same writer: Jack Palmer
Same writer: Buster Harding
Same label: Columbia
Elsewhere
Sources (6)
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1MusicBrainz Ain’t It the Truth was written by Buster Harding
Ain’t It the Truth was written by Buster Harding
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz Ain’t It the Truth was written by Count Basie
Ain’t It the Truth was written by Count Basie
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz Ain’t It the Truth was written by Jack Palmer
Ain’t It the Truth was written by Jack Palmer
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz Ain’t It the Truth is part of the release Essentiel Jazz: Count Basie, Volume 1
Ain’t It the Truth is part of the release Essentiel Jazz: Count Basie, Volume 1
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Columbia is the label of the song Ain’t It the Truth
Columbia is the label of the song Ain’t It the Truth
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz Ain’t It the Truth was released on 1993