He shoots her an aggrieved sort of look. "I'm not closing my eyes in a room full of people." That's just asking to get touched. Also: "The music is wrong. It's supposed to have. To have. Horns?"

Even if he could dance to something else (can he dance to something else?) he can't dance to this.

Unfortunately, what he needs is an actual song out of the 30s to trigger the memory. Until then, it's just going to be completely (and frustratingly) out of his mental reach.