What songs does your local Ice Cream Van play?
What songs does your local Ice Cream Van play?
Ours plays the 1979 hit Music Box Dancer which is weird because it's definitely not public domain.
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In Philadelphia PA we got Mr. Softee blasting this down the street.
It sounds almost like "Hail to the Bus Driver"
It reminds me of O Du Lieber Augustin. And it took me a really long time to figure out that title… I thought it was some well-known nursery rhyme melody, but it’s a 224 year old Viennese tune.
Apparently it was adapted to “Did you ever see a lassie?” which has much brighter and simpler lyrics than the original, which is very dark.
tangentially related: the football chant Who ate all the Pies? and the Mary Poppin's song Step in Time! both share the same origin of an old Cockney song Knees Up Mother Brown
Yup, that's the one!
Yeah, Mr. Softee in San Francisco uses the same music. I don’t recognize it from anywhere else. It sounds like a music box, especially because many of the notes don’t hit the beats.
They have them in San Francisco? I didn't know they existed until I moved up to the East Coast. I assume that Mr. Softee is where the Pete and Pete character Mr. Tastee comes from.
Mister Softee is headquartered in Runnymede, NJ so the east coast association makes sense. It’s a franchisor so there’s trucks in 18 states.
The Wikipedia article about them says the song is titled “Jingle and Chimes”, and it’s based on “The Whistler and his Dog”. There’s lyrics too!