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
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!
And the best meth…
hah! *slaps shoulder* yeah!
What 'chu want?
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.
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)
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
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
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.
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
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
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!
Greensleeves boooooriiing
I fuckn love Greensleeves! Greensleeves is my JAM
Yeah, if you’re riding to Canterbury!
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
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Chile?
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You have seen some shit, my friend
