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.
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.
that's a cracking tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
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:
Pop Goes the Weasel like this one (not mine)
The Entertainer
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
Just dropping by to share the legendary
lmao, actually slapped
LMAO, my man co-opted an old racist tune. You go on with your bad self.
Mr. Sandman just like this one.
Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
Must be a benelux thing? Same thing here
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 Farmer in the Dell?
Turkey in the Straw.
Mine played the same thing.
The last one I saw here was over a decade ago and it played Ears Hang Low
Ears Hang Low
Someone was raised on Barney, that's Turkey in the Straw
all ice cream vans in my country play the same, bespoke song
Hemglassbilen!
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.
christ that gave me chills
That's not a thing here. Ice cream vans do not exist.
I thought it was just in movies or the 50s or something
I'm not sure what this one's called but it's very pulular in Mexico.
It's kind of got a dreamy melancholy to it
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!"
never apologise for a good song
In Philadelphia PA we got Mr. Softee blasting this down the street.
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.
The Merry-Go-Round Brook Down.
The song that comes to mind for me is "Do your Ears Hang Low?"
Almost always Musicbox dancer for Cape Town, South Africa.
It's not a van, it's a dude on a modified bike-cart. He honks a bulb horn.
Turkey?
Los Angeles lol
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.
I already posted the relevant bit above. The history of this song in ice cream trucks was absolutely racist.
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
That's kind of hilarious. I can imagine adults breaking out into gleeful smiles and running over to get the freshest barrel
Completely tangential, but why are all the default recommended videos for that about "woke people getting destroyed"
‘Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements’ but like it’s from the minaret of a mosque run by the hard of hearing. It’s aggressive.
I hope they include the dialtone noises at the end too
“ 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
Every icecream truck I've ever heard plays Für Elise
Ours plays 'Oranges and Lemons', but it's so fast and jangly that it took me a while to work it out. Most of the vans around where I live tend to play 'Just One Cornetto'
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
Strangely, an instrumental version of "Chain Hang Low, by Jibbs.
Also, what does your Ice Cream Van Halen play?
O Sole Mio!
"Pop goes the weasel." Though now that you mention it, I haven't heard an ice cream truck in a few years.
Ours plays the Match of the day theme
It drives me fucking nuts
if it was played well, then fine -- but christ that was horrible
Just some generic music box song. But the guy drives too fast. I was outside once and managed to catch him to tell him to slow down because I didn't have time to grab my wallet AND run outside. But he didn't speak much English and I think he thought I was telling him he was speeding because he seemed to disagree after a short discussion with his wife. Just wanted him to slow down, maybe stop more often. Figured he would get more sales.
Oh well, since I'm a grown ass man, guess I'll just get my ice cream at the store. But seriously, where is the fun in that?
Get on our bike and chase after him with your money!
Wonderwall
The one I remember most played Pop Goes the Weasel.
