The Sheik of Araby
1921 song with music by Ted Snyder and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"The Sheik of Araby" is a song that was written in 1921 by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler, with music by Ted Snyder. It was composed in response to the popularity of the Rudolph Valentino feature film The Sheik.
"The Sheik of Araby" | |
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Song | |
Published | 1921 |
Genre | Jazz |
Songwriter(s) | Composer: Ted Snyder Lyricist: Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler |
"The Sheik of Araby" was a Tin Pan Alley hit, and was also adopted by early jazz bands, especially in New Orleans, making it a jazz standard. It was a well recognized part of popular culture. A verse also appears in the novel The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1926, Fleischer Studios released a cartoon with this song, recorded in Phonofilm, as part of their Song Car-Tunes series,[1] and a live action short with this title was filmed in Phonofilm in the UK, directed by Miles Mander.[2]