About This Song
About "The Sheik of Araby" by Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Spike Jones skewers the exoticism of the Jazz Age with a clattering, honking burlesque. The Sheik's desert romance is reduced to a sputtering clarinet and a chorus of goofy yodels, turning orientalist fantasy into a joyful, chaotic mess of broken rhythms and whoopee cushions.
