Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing as heard in Woody Allen's <i>New York Stories</i> (1989), <i>Manhattan Murder Mystery</i> (1993) and <i>Deconstructing Harry</i> (1997)

Immensely popular in its day, "Sing, Sing, Sing" is the nadir of white jungle music. Not to be confused with the 1990s electronic drum-&-bass dance genre, jungle music in jazz has racist connotations. During long runs at such dubiously named Prohibition-era Manhattan nightspots as the Plantation Club and Cotton Club, Duke Ellington's nonpareil orchestraignominiously billed as The Jungle Bandentertained white patrons in jungle-themed floor shows with light-skinned Negro female dancers in loin cloths. "Sing, Sing, Sing" updates this foolishness to the Swing Era, and compounds the insult by being performed entirely by white men. Cringe, cringe, cringe at our ancestors' naïveté.