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 "Kingdom Hearts II" (2005), and "Epic Mickey" (2010). Furthermore, in "" (2012), a "Steamboat Willie" outfit can be obtained for Mickey. The fourth-season episode of "The Simpsons", "" features a short but nearly frame-for-frame parody of the opening scene of Steamboat Willie entitled "Steamboat Itchy". In the 1998 film "Saving Private Ryan", set in 1944, a German POW tries to win the sympathy of his American captors by mentioning "Steamboat Willie", even mimicking the sound of the boat whistle from the film. The unnamed character appears in the credits as "Steamboat Willie". In the 2000 Mickey Mouse cartoon "April Fools'