Ours plays the 1979 hit Music Box Dancer which is weird because it's definitely not public domain.
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
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.
That's the one they play in my area in Michigan, I really hate it
In my hometown they played the entertainer most of the time:
Whatever it is, he's out at 9:30pm and I'm convinced he's not selling anything legal.
look at this guy, never bought an icecream at night. You get the best deals that way!
What 'chu want?
It only plays a tune when it's run out of ice cream, or at least that's what my mother told me 😅
smart woman
The Entertainer
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.
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
The last one I saw here was over a decade ago and it played Ears Hang Low
Mr. Sandman just like this one.
Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
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
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 had a Nightmare once where I heard a child crying out in the streets. I looked out and it was an Ice-cream-Truck playing screams instead of music.
The Merry-Go-Round Brook Down.
Match of the Day theme where I live. (It's probably playing in your head now, sorry).
It was Greensleeves where I grew up, halfway around the world.
Same result: synchronised yells from nearby houses of "Muuuuum... iiiiiice creeeeeeam!"
Ice cream trucks aren't a thing here, but the local street washers play Jingle Bells.
It's not a van, it's a dude on a modified bike-cart. He honks a bulb horn.
Almost always Musicbox dancer for Cape Town, South Africa.
Greensleeves. Nothing else.
Not an icecream truck, but the fuel delivery truck music that I heard while I was in a study abroad program in Amman, Jordan is fucking terrifying. Not my video but this is it
I think there are mainly two competitors in Norway. The oldest and most recognisable is Isbilen (recently rebranded to Fråst) which plays Norwegian dance no. 2 by Edvard Grieg https://youtu.be/GFQLAVpataA
Diplom-isbilen is a lot newer, however lately i have mostly been hearing them driving around. https://youtu.be/6xXp-11Swcc
Hjem-is no longer operates in Norway, but they used to just ring a bell. I think they're still around in Sweden under the name Hemglass
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.
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
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