The song even begins with a skit about ice cream ... ended up playing in ice cream trucks around the country, opposed to "Turkey in the Straw" or "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" Johnson writes: "19th ...

When I started the song, the music that tumbled from the speakers was that of the ever-recognizable jingle of the ice cream truck. (For the record, not all ice cream trucks play this same song ...

Ever since I moved to California, I've noticed that the ice cream trucks out here all play weird, borderline creepy tunes. I mentioned this to my wife and I wondered why they didn't just use "The ...

On how the song became associated with ice cream trucks "In the late nineteenth century, people weren't very mobile, right? So they lived very close together, and the ice cream parlor was sort of ...

And these messages about you permeated your neighborhood, your town, your city: Mark Fairsley’s kinda scary ... is to assume that the ice cream truck song is simply paying homage to “Turkey ...

Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA is putting the "good" in Good Humor, partnering with the sweets vendor to create a new ice cream truck jingle as ... unveiled the catchy new song Thursday morning in ...

The creepy, slowed-down version of the ubiquitous Mister Softee jingle has been playing through the LinkNYC kiosks. The off-kilter ice cream truck song was first noticed last week by passersby ...

of Americana: According to a study by Good Humor, nearly 70% of respondents said they noticed fewer ice cream ... and scary," especially when most states forced their trucks – and anything ...

Here’s something that’ll make it impossible to hear the ice cream truck song in the same way: The seemingly sweet and whimsical tune has a racist history. Viola Davis just dropped that ...

Do you know the ice cream truck jingle? (This one). Well, try not to get it stuck in your head again, because have I got bad news for you: it's the direct descendant of a very racist song that ...