Talk:Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)

Original Title

The article claims that the original title was "Sing, Bing, Sing". Can anyone provide a reference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snapdragon630 (talk • contribs) 13:30, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Here is what Gia Maione Prima (his widow) says about the song title (source is http://www.louisprima.com/art7.html):

Louis and Bing Crosby were longtime friends. They both loved race horses. They were at a track in California. Every time Bing picked a horse in a race, he'd sing it's name, he'd scream it. Louis standing next to him was going, "Sing, Bing, sing." And it hit Louis that it was a song. So right there at the racetrack, he's writing a song, "Sing, Bing, Sing," for Bing as he's hollering to cheer his horses on. Later Louis changed the title and lyric to "Sing Sing Sing" to make it more viable commercially.

Perhaps better than "the original title was 'Sing, Bing, Sing'" would be "when Prima conceived of the song he called it 'Sing, Bing, Sing'" although it was released under the name 'Sing, Sing, Sing' to make it more commercially viable."

Or even better than that would be to simply insert the above story from the louisprima.com web site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.179.215 (talk) 05:15, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Untitled

If this is the song I'm thinking of, isn't it in Donkey Konga?

"Swing, Swing, Swing" is the song featured in Prisoner of Azkaban and the X-Files episode "Triangle". It was composed by John Williams for the movie 1941. It is very similiar to "Sing, Sing, Sing", but shouldn't be confused with.

Uses in Popular Culture

Wasn't there a Merrie Melodies cartoon featuring "Sing, Sing, Sing"? I seem to remember large black ants playing typical jazz band instruments SHJohnson 19:33, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

FFX

Is it really in Final Fantasy X? I doubt it, but I've only played part of the game and it's unlikely that it is. Vandalism, or can somebody provide a source?Amtyo (talk) 02:42, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Not in Billy & Mandy

I deleted this reference to Billy & Mandy from the "Television" list:

*In the show The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, the episode Little Rock of Horrors, Billy meets an alien meteor who sings a lyrical adaption to Sing, Sing, Sing, but how he so desperately wants to eat brains.

The song used in that episode is actually BRAINS! by Cuban Goth musician, Voltaire. Justin The Claw (talk) 20:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The Mask

Sing, Sing, Sing does not appear in the soundtrack listing and I don't remember hearing it. The scene in the Coca Bonga did feature a song with a similar drum beat, "Hey Pachuco" by Royal Revue —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.40.254 (talk) 03:48, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Language??

The infobox says the language is English. How can an instrumental have a language? Ronstew (talk) 05:50, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Benny Goodman's famous cover of the song is an instrumental, but Louis Prima's original version did feature vocals. Brian the Editor (talk) 01:58, 20 February 2010 (UTC)