We have two. One plays Turkey In The Straw; the other plays a Scott Joplin tune that I can’t remember the name of, but it was the theme from The Sting.
Oh right! The Entertainer.
That is pretty creepy. Makes me suspect that that ice cream man really is a serial killer.
Ice Cram! That’s what I want to do after hearing the same song all the time…
Turkey in the Straw and The Entertainer here.
Just yesterday the endless sounds of “Pop Goes the Weasel” was heard through my windows. Funny, when I was a kid during summer and you heard that music approaching you would instatly have 50 kids on the block all run into their houses at the same time to beg mom and dad for money.
He changed it today. He doesn’t know what it is, nor do I. “They downloaded it off the internet.”
98F, Heat Index 105F.
Mississippi Mud Ice Cream Sandwich.
Yum.
Yeah, this one. We have it too, except it’s Kotijäätelö because it’s Finland.
It’s Hjem-Is in Norway - I think with the dash, I’m not sure - and they just ring a bell. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Same system, though.
At the moment I’m on vacation in Rome. No ice cream trucks here that I’ve noticed, but they are not needed, because the city is home to (rough estimate) 4,623 gelaterias 
It only plays It’s a Small World After All. In order to maximize the torture, the driver gleefully adds sound effects (horns, buzzes, bells) in time to the music.
The ice-cream truck in my neighbourhood in Toronto plays some kind of music that has the HELLO! in it as well, right at the very end. I thought it might be Turkey in the Straw but I just googled that asn it’s not the same at all. However, I’m having great difficulty remembering it now, because I’ve got a mixture of Turkey in the Straw and the Tetris theme stuck in my head.
*Lili Marlene * is popular round my way (UK).
The Entertainer.
When I get an ice cream truck I’m gonna blast Purple Haze or perhaps Layla.
mmm
“Vegetable van” at our house. Didn’t work for long, but my kids recognized that we could buy a tub of ice cream for what a cone costs off of those trucks, and it is a very rare treat…
They are 14 and 12, and we still call it the vegetable van when it comes by…
Sorry, didn’t answer the OP question and missed the edit window.
It plays “Do your ears hang low…”
We have two round here, one which plays Greensleeves, and one which plays the Teddy Bear’s Picnic. One of them used to do Pop Goes the Weasel.
It never occurred to me that people find them annoying to hear. I always like hearing the ice-cream van. It’s nice to think they are still around. I remember the excitement as a child of listening to it getting closer and closer to our road. Screwballs all round!
Maybe there’s a different truck in my neighborhood on the weekend, because one playing Home, Home on The Range just went by. I still want an ice cream.
What, “Pop Goes the Weasel” over and over again? For hours? Right next to your office window? Do you enjoy that?
The produce van doesn’t play his music over and over–he just plays that musical phrase they play at baseball games that’s followed by the crowd saying, “Charge!” He plays it one time ONLY, when he arrives, which is at the same time every day. He’s a welcome fixture to the neighborhood.
Moreover, the produce van provides a more useful service than the ice cream truck–especially if you want to cook something and have no time for the market. He gives me a discount, too, if I speak Armenian with him when I say how many eggplants I want.
About the the bizarre “HELLO”: I asked one ice cream truck guy about it, and he said, “It’s just be nice. You know, like a friendly.”
I agree with the above posters: To me it sounds like some psychotic talking to herself.
Perhaps it takes a very special type of person to be an ice cream truck driver.
There is a nice sequence in Mr. 3000 when Bernie Mac talks about the sound of baseball - and it is whatever the local ice cream truck plays.
I would answer Turkey in the Straw if asked this question on, say, the Family Feud. But I’m sure that we’ve had our local guy play other things - The Entertainer may have been used recently. Fur Elise seems really strange though.