ID the ice cream man tune from the '60s

Nope, but I can see how it might appear that way.

Here’s an icecream truck- at about 2:35. Is that close?

Here is the tune in question.

Hmm, if you use the JavaScript search on that site it looks like maybe it saves your search. Does this link work for you?

And if so, does that sound anything like your song? I just punched the notes you have above.

That’s it! :slight_smile:

Now we just need a name!

(FWIW, the truck played it a little faster.)

I just listened to it. I don’t recognize it. I’m thinking maybe it was a tune written just for the ice cream trucks.

Oh, and Biffy, I like the fact that you went through the trouble of making a YouTube video, complete with ice cream picture. :slight_smile:

I didn’t notice Biffy made that!

I like the Creamsicle. There’s a cat in the neighbourhood we call ‘Creamsicle Kitty’ because he’s orange and white. (A local shelter had an orange-and-white cat named Creamsicle, too.)

Don’t recognize the subject tune.
“Mr Softee,” though, had lyrics that I can still remember more than fifty years later!:

Around here, the ice cream men play La Cucuracha for no apparent reason.

Anyway, I recognize the OP’s tune because when I was a kid visiting relatives in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s, that’s the tune the ice cream men played out there. (Back at home in Virginia at that time, the ice cream trucks didn’t play tunes - they just had a rack of bells over the windshield, and would pull on a string to ring them from time to time. How primitive, huh? It still got our attention, though.)

That’s the Firesign Theatre ice cream truck from the end of Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers and the beginning of I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus! An ice cream truck here was playing it one day and I thought I’d be able to go to the Future Fair.

Another San Diego 50’s kid with a less often heard Ice Cream Truck tune from 1971. I drove a Good Humor truck for a few weeks, during which ordeal I heard this song about a million and six times. You have to imagine it sped up a little, played in a very basic 4/4 time, in those moronic bell tones.

“Oh Donna Clara”

There’s another ice cream truck thread that was started today.

Thought I’d resurrect this one to see if anyone can identify the name of the tun in Biffy put up. (The tempo was faster on the actual truck.)

I recognize it, sort of. It sounds like a simplified version of a reel that I remember from my days of Scottish country dancing. The rhythm I know is a bit more complex:

4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4, and 1 & 2 & 3 & 4, and a 1 & 2 & 3 & 4, and 1 & 2 and a 3–4.

I don’t recall the name of the reel, but if you listen to some of the country dancing collections on YouTube, you’re bound to hear it.

The stress (beat) always falls on 1 and 3 (and the half note at the end).

You can hear it starting at 3:08 in this video. Unfortunately, the name of the dance is not the name of the tune:

Amazing how all this crap comes back to you once you start thinking about it! The name of the tune is “The White Cockade”:

Takes me back to my fife and drum days.... :o

Not the tune I’m looking for though. Biffy has it, but the name is elusive.

It sure sounds like the same tune to me, just more elaborate. :dubious:

Did you listen to it all the way through?

I listened to the first link starting at 3:08, and enough of the second one to determine it doesn’t sound the same to me.

I stand by “The White Cockade.” :slight_smile: