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Along the way, children singing the "Do your chain hang low" hook attempt to steal ice cream from an ice cream truck, and Jibbs fights in a boxing match. The video was shot entirely in a studio on green screen when the production company, Robot Films, lost the permit to shoot the video on the actual streets the night before the scheduled shoot.
The melody is played by many ice cream trucks; [47] 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.
He originated a dance move known as the "cane pat" which became popular with blackface minstrels, and, as part of Bailess and Kennedy's "Brightlights" vaudeville act, became particularly associated with the song "Turkey in the Straw". In 1885, he started performing in a duo with his wife, May Golden.
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Meanwhile, Donald Duck rolls a vendor cart through the audience selling popcorn, lemonade, peanuts, and ice cream, which further causes a distraction to Mickey. While the band is playing the "Finale" segment, Donald plays "Turkey in the Straw" with a flute at the same tempo as the band. Overhearing Donald, the entire band absent-mindedly find ...
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Bob Farrell was an American, New York City-based blackface minstrel singer, best known for introducing the song "Zip Coon" at the Bowery Theatre in 1834, [1] [2] which later gave the tune to "Turkey in the Straw", one of the most famous and widespread songs of the era.
Turkey in the Straw may refer to: "Turkey in the Straw", a folk song; Turkey in the Straw: A Book of American Ballads and Primitive Verse, a 1935 collection of stories by MacKinlay Kantor "Turkey in the Straw", a 1942 recording by Carson Robison; Turkey in the Straw, a 1942 soundie starring Freddie Fisher