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.

Whatever it is, he's out at 9:30pm and I'm convinced he's not selling anything legal.

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 😅

Just dropping by to share the legendary

Ice cream truck in the hood

The Entertainer

Mr. Sandman just like this one.

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

Greensleeves boooooriiing

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.

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".

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.

all ice cream vans in my country play the same, bespoke song

I'm not sure what this one's called but it's very pulular in Mexico.

https://youtu.be/5jPS8FDVhc8

In Philadelphia PA we got Mr. Softee blasting this down the street.

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!"

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

Almost always Musicbox dancer for Cape Town, South Africa.

‘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.

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

Greensleeves. Nothing else.

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