Steamboat Willie and included the songs "Steamboat Bill", a composition popularized by baritone Arthur Collins during the 1910s, and "Turkey in the Straw," a composition popularized within minstrelsy during the 19th century. The title of the film is a parody of the Buster Keaton film "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (1928), itself a reference to the song by Collins. Walt Disney performed all of the voices in the film, although there is little intelligible dialogue. While the film has received some criticism, it has also received wide critical acclaim, not only for introducing one of the world's most popular cartoon characters, but for its
Steamboat Willie Day", Mickey and Mortimer get sent to the President's office to claim a million dollars. But Mortimer pretends to be Mickey and he is shown acting in "Steamboat Willie". In Toontown Online, one of the buildings on Silly Street is named ""Steamboat Willie"." In the Goofy cartoon "How to Be a Waiter" (1999), Goofy is shown an example of a movie, and "Steamboat Willie" is shown. But in that short, "Willie" is a shortened version titled "Steamboat Goofy". The opening scene was parodied towards the end of "Aladdin and the King of Thieves" (1996). Genie, having been swallowed by the