Songfacts®:

• This song's claim to fame is that it was recorded by a member of the infamous Manson Family. It's pretty catchy, too.
  
  In "Ain't It?, Babe," Charity Shayne, real name Catherine Share (more on that below), addresses someone who's been done dirty on all fronts by the various forces of betrayal that constitute this plane of reality. After each point, she asks, "Ain't It?, Babe."
  
  Her tone lacks the sneering disdain that Bob Dylan shows in "Like A Rolling Stone," but the songs' themes are very similar and it's hard/impossible to imagine that "Ain't It?, Babe" wasn't made in direct imitation. "Like A Rolling Stone" hit airwaves in June 1965, the same year Share recorded "Ain't It?, Babe."
• Catherine Share was a member of the Manson Family but didn't participate in the Tate–LaBianca murders, memorialized by Quentin Tarantino in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Share's role was played by Lena Dunham). She was nowhere near the scenes of those infamous crimes, but during the trial she did attempt to take out a key witness with an LSD-infused hamburger. She and a group of former Mansonites also rammed a van into a gun store and stole nearly 200 guns before getting into a shootout with police. Share fired on the officers and was shot in return. She served five years for the crime. She later swore off Manson and converted to Christianity. Share signed a major book deal with Paramount Vantage in 2008, but the book seems to have died in production.
• Marty Cooper wrote and produced the song. He's most remembered for "Peanut Butter" by The Marathons, "A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock 'N Roll" by Donny and Marie, and "Hey, Harmonica Man" by Stevie Wonder.
• Share recorded "Ain't It?, Babe" with Autumn Records in San Francisco. The label only existed for a few years before dissolving in 1966, but it left its mark. They released The Beau Brummels' Top 20 hits "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little." They also had The Great Society, Grace Slick's original band and the first group to record "Somebody To Love," in their stable.
  
  In liner notesfor San Francisco Roots, a compilation of Autumn Records songs, Richie Unterberger wrote, "In its brief time as a working label in the mid-1960s, Autumn had the first national hits by a San Francisco group in the wake of the first wave of the British Invasion; released the first recordings to feature the vocals of one of the biggest superstars of San Francisco psychedelia; and recorded early folk-rock with bittersweet melodies and male-female vocal harmonies that became trademarks of '60s Bay Area rock."
• The single's B-side is "Then You Try," also written and produced by Cooper.