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Post by thiccqueenweesa on May 11, 2024 18:12:45 GMT -5
Hi, I'm not sure if there's a thread about this topic on here yet but I've always been fascinated by the music that plays on ice cream trucks. I thought about posting about here after I heard an ice cream truck drive by my neighborhood in what seemed like forever. It was playing a loop of the usual suspects (nursery rhymes, traditional songs) but it was also playing Christmas music (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Silent Night) as well as "why is this coming from an ice cream truck" songs like the theme from Swan Lake, Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender, and the chorus of J-Lo's On The Floor, all played in off-key 8-bit style music. For like the past 15 years, there have been countless ice cream trucks with this looping "playlist" of songs in my neighborhood, but I have heard some trucks play the 8-bit On The Floor chorus melody seperately on a loop before, usually at a friend's house.
My favorite ice cream truck song, which sadly I haven't heard IRL at all anymore since my childhood other than YouTube videos (I know, we all fall down the rabbit hole of random videos especially late at night) is the one that has a trap beat behind a song that sounds like a weird mashup of Do Your Ears Hang Low and She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes (and has a progressive buildup climax that transitions between the two songs towards the middle) and during the latter song, there's four beats after each verse that is comprised of a cricket chirping and a car horn. At the end of the song, there's like 5 seconds of silence and a woman's voice randomly says "HeeeLLLOOO!" with a vocal tone that sits right between southern belle and drag queen. I absolutely love this song and every time I think of it, I imagine myself being 8 years old again, doing homework while eating a quick dinner at the kitchen table or spending my weekend evenings plopped in front of the TV playing with my Gamecube or watching Disney Channel.
So, what do you think of ice cream truck music? Are you intrigued by it? Perhaps annoyed? Do you think the music played by ice cream trucks should evolve for newer generations (the Hello one was a product of the early 2000s and is rare to hear today)? And why that specific J-Lo of all things!?
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 11, 2024 20:06:13 GMT -5
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Post by thiccqueenweesa on May 11, 2024 20:53:21 GMT -5
Thank you SO MUCH. I recall hearing this ice cream truck loop long before I heard the J-Lo song. But it's still weird to hear such an obscure song coming from an ice cream truck lol. |
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 11, 2024 22:16:22 GMT -5
Thank you SO MUCH. I recall hearing this ice cream truck loop long before I heard the J-Lo song. But it's still weird to hear such an obscure song coming from an ice cream truck lol.
That main melody part that she used in her song was also in a very famous song called “Lambada” by Kaoma. |
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Post by thiccqueenweesa on May 11, 2024 22:56:06 GMT -5
Thank you SO MUCH. I recall hearing this ice cream truck loop long before I heard the J-Lo song. But it's still weird to hear such an obscure song coming from an ice cream truck lol.
That main melody part that she used in her song was also in a very famous song called “Lambada” by Kaoma. You're so right... So I was doing research on the ice cream truck music and turns out someone on YouTube not only did a direct rip of the tubes on several ice cream truck tapes, they also named all the songs. Here's the endless loop I mentioned, which is called "Wolo 345 Animal House". And guess what... the 14th song is listed as "Lambada." youtu.be/8IbRwZONboo?si=4eosTKD1pJpifmKAHere's the rip of the "HOLTEK HT3894A" tape. The first song sounds awfully familiar... Note at the end the YouTube uploader ripped some of the sound effects as well separately. I FINALLY can have that Hello to myself!!!! (evil laughter)🤣 youtu.be/ygCCgjOfGLE?si=75j1U8JplCvadZCWIf anyone needs free ice cream music, I guess this will do... |
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Post by 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 on May 12, 2024 0:17:02 GMT -5
Whenever the ice cream truck comes into my neighborhood, I would mostly hear these common tunes described in these videos and nothing else:
1) "Mister Softee"
2) "The Entertainer"
3) "Camptown Races"
4) "Turkey In The Straw" or "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"
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Post by thiccqueenweesa on May 12, 2024 0:34:33 GMT -5
Whenever the ice cream truck comes into my neighborhood, I would mostly hear these common tunes described in these videos and nothing else: 1) "Mister Softee" 2) "The Entertainer" 3) "Camptown Races" 4) "Turkey In The Straw" or "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" The only one I'm familiar with that you mentioned is Turkey in the Straw which is also called "Do Your Ears Hang Low." If an ice cream truck in my area does not play the endless loop, it's usually a variation of Turkey in the Straw. I've heard a shortened version of it and an extended version. The shortened version is much more common to hear. I just wish more ice cream trucks would play the Hello song (which oddly enough is #2 on the best ice cream truck songs in that video lol) |
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Post by G@bing$20n on May 12, 2024 11:30:20 GMT -5
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Post by SabrinaFan on May 12, 2024 12:44:15 GMT -5
the one that has a trap beat behind a song that sounds like a weird mashup of Do Your Ears Hang Low and She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes (and has a progressive buildup climax that transitions between the two songs towards the middle) I never paid enough attention to know if it's that exact song, but in recent years when I've traveled back home to visit my parents, there is an ice cream truck that will sometimes blare trap versions of classic ice cream truck songs throughout the neighborhood. The most amusing one to me is I remember them once playing a trap remix of "The Wheels on the Bus" lol. |
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Post by thiccqueenweesa on May 12, 2024 14:02:51 GMT -5
the one that has a trap beat behind a song that sounds like a weird mashup of Do Your Ears Hang Low and She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes (and has a progressive buildup climax that transitions between the two songs towards the middle) I never paid enough attention to know if it's that exact song, but in recent years when I've traveled back home to visit my parents, there is an ice cream truck that will sometimes blare trap versions of classic ice cream truck songs throughout the neighborhood. The most amusing one to me is I remember them once playing a trap remix of "The Wheels on the Bus" I once heard this remix on a truck once back during the pandemic. I was floored hearing it in real life because I saw the exact same video like 10 years prior to that lol. XD youtu.be/xWf8HrvscF4?si=U7r5bYTM32l9BMaH |
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Post by thiccqueenweesa on May 12, 2024 14:06:09 GMT -5
I'm also gonna post this just because. youtu.be/RSmWdwgnP40?si=3akurG4UWzPOgJEmWhere I'm from, if it's a vehicle, it can absolutely be an ice cream truck, no ifs ands or buts. I've seen minivans and school buses being converted into ice cream trucks. |
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Post by thiccqueenweesa on May 12, 2024 22:22:48 GMT -5
I think what's more fascinating about ice cream truck music is the conspiracies people have about it. Like how ice cream trucks only play music when they're out of ice cream, which (no surprise here fellas!) is actually a LIE. This isn't McDonalds' ice cream machine. The music means they HAVE ice cream. If they completely ran out of ice cream, they wouldn't be driving around, now would they? 😝
Oh and the Mandela Effect (tm) also has its place in ice cream music. I thought that the Hello song ended with 3 knocks on a door, the door opening, and the lady saying hello. Well that's not the case lol. It's just the hello. My whole childhood was a lie. Also the identity of the hello lady is still a mystery but back in '07 during its massive popularity my dad's side of the family would often joke about how much it sounded like my mom when she would answer voicemails. My late grandmother actually brought that up to my aunts and it was a running joke for a while until my parents divorced.
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Post by Glass Joe on May 16, 2024 9:00:33 GMT -5
There was an ice cream truck in my old neighborhood that rode by off and on during the years 2005 to 2008 or so. It never played radio hits though. It was just generic circus sounding music, it sounded like.
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Post by divasummer on May 18, 2024 10:13:35 GMT -5
There was an ice cream truck in my old neighborhood that rode by off and on during the years 2005 to 2008 or so. It never played radio hits though. It was just generic circus sounding music, it sounded like. There is an ice cream truck that still comes around my area each Summer and all I’ve heard was Circus sounding music as well. Definitely not as hip as blaring “trap” music. Lol |
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Post by Glass Joe on May 23, 2024 19:16:43 GMT -5
There was an ice cream truck in my old neighborhood that rode by off and on during the years 2005 to 2008 or so. It never played radio hits though. It was just generic circus sounding music, it sounded like. There is an ice cream truck that still comes around my area each Summer and all I’ve heard was Circus sounding music as well. Definitely not as hip as blaring “trap” music. Lol That is quite a funny thought though! If only the one in my old neighborhood played radio songs from the time, even the thought of it riding by blasting "Fergalicious," "Don't Cha," or "Ridin'" would have been rather hysterical. |
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