The Sheik of Araby

Ted Snyder wrote the music and Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler the words in 1921, to cash in on Rudolph Valentino's film The Sheik. Snyder later said he first called it "The Rose of Araby" and only gave in to the new title when he saw the posters for the film. Eddie Cantor sang it in the revue Make It Snappy in 1922, and children sing a verse of it in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli recorded it with the Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1937, and Jack Teagarden in 1939.