SHEIK, THE
Created on 08/04/2006Latest update on 13/10/2022
Artist: Joseph Knecht's Waldorf Astoria Orch.
Author: Ted Snyder
Label: Grey Gull
Year: 1921
Instrumental. Working title: My Rose Of Araby. Then The Sheik became a bestselling novel, soon to be filmed (as The Sheik Of Araby) with Rudolph Valentino. Both him and the song became immortal.
Covers:
- 1921:
California Ramblers [as The Sheik Of Araby; again instrumental]
- 1921:
Club Royal Orch. [idem]
- 1922:
Peter Dawson [idem; vocal version; lyrics: Harry Smith/Francis Wheeler]
- 1922:
Fanny Brice [parody as The Sheik Of Avenue B]
- 1925:
Willy Derby [als Minnepijn]
- 1930:
- 1932:
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- 1939:
- 1941:
Sidney Bechet [as a one-man-band overdubbing himself six times]
- 1943:
- 1946:
- 1946:
- 1951:
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- 1961:
- 1962:
Beatles [during rejected Decca audition; vocal: George]
- 1962:
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- 1974:
- 1977:
- 1982:
- 1995:
- 2007:
Harry Connick Jr. [all as The Sheik Of Araby]
