Last week: quick pants. This week: loud pants. Now it’s the weekend, so it’s time for: no pants.

That is Don Albert and His Orchestra doing “The Sheik of Araby (With No Pants On)” in November 1936. It’s a swinging version of the popular Tin Pan Alley tune “The Sheik of Araby”, featuring a hilarious, honey-throated, and possibly loaded Merle Turner on vocal, in which, following a New Orleans jazz tradition of obscure origin, the band (also possibly loaded) calls out “with no pants on!” after each verse.

I’m the Sheik of Araby … with no pants on!
Your love belongs to me … with no pants on!
At night when you’re asleep … with no pants on!
Into your tent I will creep … with no pants on!

The stars that shine up above … with no pants on!
Will light my way to love … with no pants on!
You’ll rule this land with me … with no pants on!
I’m the Sheik of Araby … with no pants on!

The tune is still performed with the no-pants call-out to this day (often on the second repeat only). And apparently some musicians prefer to use the alternate phrasing “without no pants on”. I don’t know … somehow it’s not the same.