At one point, I heard our local ice cream truck playing Wintergatan - Marble Machine. I thought it was cute and kinda refreshing to hear a newer tune like that.
this should be the song that all ice trucks play, this is amazing
Greensleeves is the only ice cream van song I've heard in Australia.
Hello? and Im not the biggest fan. First time I heard it I was doing yard work with my headphones in and thought someone was trying to get my attention.
I was hoping for Adele.
My disapppintment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I was hoping for Lionel Richie.
Yes, I was in fact looking for ice cream.
There are three.
One plays "Brave Bells of Scotland" with the word "HELLO-O" yelled by a distorted female voice every so often.
One plays chiptune Christmas Carols all year round.
One plays a medley of old songs heavily featuring "Turkey in the Straw".
“HELLO-O”
Christ that should be illlegal
I'm not sure what this one's called but it's very pulular in Mexico.
Almost always Musicbox dancer for Cape Town, South Africa.
I live in a weird ice cream van black hole. The last place we live had them and that was only 5 blocks away (as the crow flies). Every year more families with kids move into the neighborhood and every summer I think the vans will expand their territory to cover us, but 10 years in and it hasn't happened.
All the ice cream vans that show up in my area play The Entertainer, idk if it's just a local thing or if most ice cream vans in the UK play that one though
It's not a van, it's a dude on a modified bike-cart. He honks a bulb horn.
Turkey?
Strangely, an instrumental version of "Chain Hang Low, by Jibbs.
“ i’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes”
“The entertainer”
“My Darling Clementine” <— This one creeps me out, because it reminds me of that one episode of Star Trek Voyager
In Philadelphia PA we got Mr. Softee blasting this down the street.
It sounds almost like "Hail to the Bus Driver"
Apparently that turkey in the straw one is super racist- or rather the lyrics of the version that took off and led to ICT fame. I swear ours still plays it.. I’ll have to listen closely next time I happen to hear it.
The first and natural inclination, of course, is to assume that the ice cream truck song is simply paying homage to "Turkey in the Straw," but the melody reached the nation only after it was appropriated by traveling blackface minstrel shows. There is simply no divorcing the song from the dozens of decades it was almost exclusively used for coming up with new ways to ridicule, and profit from, black people.
Perhaps I'm naive. I looked up the lyrics and found one spot in them where, yes, for sure, that's racist. However, it's akin to Enie meenie miney moe, where a slight change could make the song suitable again.
all ice cream vans in my country play the same, bespoke song
At one point, I heard our local ice cream truck playing Wintergatan - Marble Machine. I thought it was cute and kinda refreshing to hear a newer tune like that.
this should be the song that all ice trucks play, this is amazing
that's a cracking tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
Pop Goes the Weasel like this one (not mine)
Greensleeves boooooriiing
I fuckn love Greensleeves! Greensleeves is my JAM
Yeah, if you're riding to Canterbury!
Greensleeves is the only ice cream van song I've heard in Australia.
Hello? and Im not the biggest fan. First time I heard it I was doing yard work with my headphones in and thought someone was trying to get my attention.
I was hoping for Adele.
My disapppintment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I was hoping for Lionel Richie.
Yes, I was in fact looking for ice cream.
There are three.
One plays "Brave Bells of Scotland" with the word "HELLO-O" yelled by a distorted female voice every so often.
One plays chiptune Christmas Carols all year round.
One plays a medley of old songs heavily featuring "Turkey in the Straw".
Christ that should be illlegal
I'm not sure what this one's called but it's very pulular in Mexico.
https://youtu.be/5jPS8FDVhc8
It's kind of got a dreamy melancholy to it
Almost always Musicbox dancer for Cape Town, South Africa.
I live in a weird ice cream van black hole. The last place we live had them and that was only 5 blocks away (as the crow flies). Every year more families with kids move into the neighborhood and every summer I think the vans will expand their territory to cover us, but 10 years in and it hasn't happened.
I need to start using "as the crow flies" more
Mr. Sandman just like this one.
Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
diddle doo doo doo diddle diddle diddle doo
diddle doo doo doo diddle diddle diddle doo
diddle doo doo doo diddle diddle diddle doo
diddle doo doo doo
All the ice cream vans that show up in my area play The Entertainer, idk if it's just a local thing or if most ice cream vans in the UK play that one though
It's not a van, it's a dude on a modified bike-cart. He honks a bulb horn.
Turkey?
Strangely, an instrumental version of "Chain Hang Low, by Jibbs.
“ i’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes”
“The entertainer”
“My Darling Clementine” <— This one creeps me out, because it reminds me of that one episode of Star Trek Voyager
In Philadelphia PA we got Mr. Softee blasting this down the street.
It sounds almost like "Hail to the Bus Driver"
Apparently that turkey in the straw one is super racist- or rather the lyrics of the version that took off and led to ICT fame. I swear ours still plays it.. I’ll have to listen closely next time I happen to hear it.
Perhaps I'm naive. I looked up the lyrics and found one spot in them where, yes, for sure, that's racist. However, it's akin to Enie meenie miney moe, where a slight change could make the song suitable again.
all ice cream vans in my country play the same, bespoke song