[Dixielandjazz] OK, now that we have established that DJML is working...

[david richoux]

This Thursday (6/5) for no particular reason at all I will be playing 
every version of "Sheik of Araby" that I can fit into 2 hours of radio 
programming. The Jazz Parade 10AM to Noon Pacific Daylight Time  on 
KFJC. We do have a streaming internet connection that usually works 
pretty well - go to http://www.kfjc.org/netcast.html  and see if it 
works for you.

In doing some web research on this song I see references to a very 
early 1920s piano roll and a 1922 recording by Mitchell's jazz Kings on 
Pathe but nothing much before that - does anybody have the exact 
original publication date by Harry B. Smith / Francois Wheeler / Ted 
Snyder? I guess the book "The Sheik" published in 1920 and the 
Valentino films that soon followed were the basis of  the popularity of 
this song. I also see that most of the Google type search engines focus 
on the rare recoded version by the Beatles in 1962...

Dave Richoux