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.
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 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.
It reminds me of O Du Lieber Augustin. And it took me a really long time to figure out that titleā¦ I thought it was some well-known nursery rhyme melody, but itās a 224 year old Viennese tune.
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
Yeah, Mr. Softee in San Francisco uses the same music. I donāt recognize it from anywhere else. It sounds like a music box, especially because many of the notes donāt 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. Itās a franchisor so thereās trucks in 18 states.
The Wikipedia article about them says the song is titled āJingle and Chimesā, and itās based on āThe Whistler and his Dogā. Thereās lyrics too!
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
I think there are mainly two competitors in Norway. The oldest and most recognisable is Isbilen (recently rebranded to FrƄst) 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
The first one is really fun with that periodic trill which peters out. The second one I have to say I'm not very fond of, maybe because it sounds overproduced in that advert. Still, beats a ringing a bell!
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.. Iāll 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.
Something isn't meshing with my app, or whatever. I swear I saw your comment but it disappeared and the one I replied to remained.
Ok, so we are both right it turns out: Turkey in the Straw is as I described (one racist passage), but was used as the tune for the ice cream truck song which was a bajillion times worse, Holy cow.
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
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'
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?
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over_clox@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
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.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
that's a cracking tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
confuser@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
this should be the song that all ice trucks play, this is amazing
Sprinks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
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.
snooggums@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y
I was hoping for Adele.
My disapppintment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I was hoping for Lionel Richie.
Yes, I was in fact looking for ice cream.
criticon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
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:
https://youtu.be/_XL8BEnIIWs?si=EtMFYeSXcsMiz2uD
SouthFresh@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
Whatever it is, he's out at 9:30pm and I'm convinced he's not selling anything legal.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
look at this guy, never bought an icecream at night. You get the best deals that way!
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
And the best meth...
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
hah! *slaps shoulder* yeah!
Nomad@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
What 'chu want?
HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
Pop Goes the Weasel like this one (not mine)
ODuffer@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
It only plays a tune when it's run out of ice cream, or at least that's what my mother told me š
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
smart woman!
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y
The Entertainer
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Just dropping by to share the legendary
Ice cream truck in the hood
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
lmao, actually slapped
shalafi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
LMAO, my man co-opted an old racist tune. You go on with your bad self.
sirico@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1y
Greensleeves boooooriiing
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
I fuckn love Greensleeves! Greensleeves is my JAM
sirico@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
Yeah, if you're riding to Canterbury!
Hr24@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y
Greensleeves is the only ice cream van song I've heard in Australia.
Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Mr. Sandman just like this one.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Hush little baby, don't say a word
ilmagico@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
And never mind that noise you heard
DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Must be a benelux thing? Same thing here
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
The last one I saw here was over a decade ago and it played Ears Hang Low
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
Someone was raised on Barney, that's Turkey in the Straw
NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
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
RBWells@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The Farmer in the Dell?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y
Turkey in the Straw.
Mine played the same thing.
lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 1y
all ice cream vans in my country play the same, bespoke song
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
Hemglassbilen!
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
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.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
I need to start using "as the crow flies" more
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
christ that gave me chills
Nemo@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y
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".
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Christ that should be illlegal
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I'm not sure what this one's called but it's very pulular in Mexico.
https://youtu.be/5jPS8FDVhc8
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
It's kind of got a dreamy melancholy to it
Tracked@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
can@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
I thought it was just in movies or the 50s or something
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
The Merry-Go-Round Brook Down.
Brewchin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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!"
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
never apologise for a good song
MisterNeon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
In Philadelphia PA we got Mr. Softee blasting this down the street.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
It sounds almost like "Hail to the Bus Driver"
TaviRider@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
It reminds me of O Du Lieber Augustin. And it took me a really long time to figure out that titleā¦ I thought it was some well-known nursery rhyme melody, but itās a 224 year old Viennese tune.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
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
TaviRider@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
Apparently it was adapted to āDid you ever see a lassie?ā which has much brighter and simpler lyrics than the original, which is very dark.
Masamune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yup, that's the one!
TaviRider@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, Mr. Softee in San Francisco uses the same music. I donāt recognize it from anywhere else. It sounds like a music box, especially because many of the notes donāt hit the beats.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
TaviRider@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
Mister Softee is headquartered in Runnymede, NJ so the east coast association makes sense. Itās a franchisor so thereās trucks in 18 states.
The Wikipedia article about them says the song is titled āJingle and Chimesā, and itās based on āThe Whistler and his Dogā. Thereās lyrics too!
ZDL@ttrpg.network · 4 pts · 1y
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Chile?
ZDL@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 1y
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
You have seen some shit, my friend
TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
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
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I choose to believe you mean this instead of this.
crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
I think there are mainly two competitors in Norway. The oldest and most recognisable is Isbilen (recently rebranded to FrƄst) 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
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
The first one is really fun with that periodic trill which peters out. The second one I have to say I'm not very fond of, maybe because it sounds overproduced in that advert. Still, beats a ringing a bell!
istoff@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Almost always Musicbox dancer for Cape Town, South Africa.
credo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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.. Iāll have to listen closely next time I happen to hear it.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
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.
credo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/11/310708342/recall-that-ice-cream-truck-song-we-have-unpleasant-news-for-you
I already posted the relevant bit above. The history of this song in ice cream trucks was absolutely racist.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
Something isn't meshing with my app, or whatever. I swear I saw your comment but it disappeared and the one I replied to remained.
Ok, so we are both right it turns out: Turkey in the Straw is as I described (one racist passage), but was used as the tune for the ice cream truck song which was a bajillion times worse, Holy cow.
Fuck things were bad back then.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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
gmtom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Completely tangential, but why are all the default recommended videos for that about "woke people getting destroyed"
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
That's kind of hilarious. I can imagine adults breaking out into gleeful smiles and running over to get the freshest barrel
Squeezer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
āOranges and lemons say the bells of St Clementsā but like itās from the minaret of a mosque run by the hard of hearing. Itās aggressive.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I hope they include the dialtone noises at the end too
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
The song that comes to mind for me is "Do your Ears Hang Low?"
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
https://lemmy.ml/post/19887375/13434203
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Greensleeves. Nothing else.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 1y
Also, what does your Ice Cream Van Halen play?
Codandchips@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Ours plays the Match of the day theme
It drives me fucking nuts
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
if it was played well, then fine -- but christ that was horrible
TTH4P@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
It's not a van, it's a dude on a modified bike-cart. He honks a bulb horn.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Turkey?
TTH4P@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Los Angeles lol
Vytle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Every icecream truck I've ever heard plays FĆ¼r Elise
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
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'
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
Strangely, an instrumental version of "Chain Hang Low, by Jibbs.
finley@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
jxk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
O Sole Mio!
2ugly2live@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
"Pop goes the weasel." Though now that you mention it, I haven't heard an ice cream truck in a few years.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Wonderwall
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 1y
The one I remember most played Pop Goes the Weasel.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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?
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Get on our bike and chase after him with your money!