The Straw, A Rag-Time Fantasy" which was published by Leo Feist Inc., New York. In early June 1922 Texas champion breakdown fiddler Eck Robertson, together with Henry C. Guililand, made America's first commercial recordings of fiddle music for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York City, featuring "Turkey In The Straw" as one of their four song selections. In 1925, American composer Joseph W. Clokey (stepfather of Gumby creator Art Clokey) wrote the choral ballad "The Musical Trust", which incorporated "Turkey in the Straw" (with a reference to ''Zip Coon'') and other traditional American tunes. In 1926, "Turkey in the Straw" was recorded by the old-time band Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett. In 1928, this was used as the base melody in the famous early Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie. The rendering of the tune in the cartoon is noted for being one of the first instances of successful synchronization in animated films. The tune became prominent in Disney's animated series and was used in many subsequent cartoons in the 1920s and 1930s, including the first Mickey Mouse cartoon in color, The Band Concert, in which Donald Duck annoys an orchestra by repeatedly playing the tune over their efforts at The William Tell Overture. In 1942, Carson Robison performed an anti-Axis Powers version of "Turkey in the Straw". The full melody is quoted in a fiddle and whistling solo in the "Skip To My Lou" number from the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland. Erno Dohnanyi used the tune (and also two other traditional American folk tunes) in his composition American Rhapsody (1953). The melody is played by many ice cream trucks; in Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel The High Window, the protagonist recounts "The Good Humor man went by in his little blue and white wagon, playing 'Turkey in the Straw' on his music box". The instrumental "Hoedown" from Emerson Lake and Palmer's album Trilogy quotes the melody. The 1990 film Back to the Future Part III featured this song, which was arranged by Alan Silvestri and ZZ Top. The 1990s animated television series Animaniacs used the tune for "Wakko's America", in which Wakko names all 50-state capitals in the form of a song. Adult Swim's television series Robot Chicken used the song as a part of their Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III special, in which Emperor Palpatine lists