I’m listening to a high-pitched wordless tune outside that I’m sure is from a local who runs an ice cream van. But the songs it’s playing are odd: Jingle Bells, Silent Night… Why would that be on the soundtrack? Maybe it’s better on sanity than “Turkey in the Straw” over and over, but it’s still strange…
You’re not in Toronto by any chance are you? Because I was there two weeks ago and noticed the same damn thing…
Serious guess: These tunes are very recognizable (who plays obscure music with an ice cream truck?), and, being in the public domain, do not require the payment of royalties.
Not so serious guess: The Christmas season keeps starting earlier and earlier.
It’s just a semi-funny attempt to take people’s minds off the heat. Radio stations have been known to do this as a summer joke in the past.
It got your attention, didn’t it?
(I wish we got the ice-cream man out here in the boonies . . . 
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Maybe he’s having a Christmas-in-July sale?
One of the stores here is doing this - TV and print ads with Santa Claus on them
“Hello folks!”
My local ice cream trucks play Christmas songs as well as “Happy Birthday” and “Music Box Dancer.” It’s just a way of getting the attention of potential customers. For some reason, though, one particular truck lowers the volume while stopped and raises it while driving away. Many’s the time my daughter has heard the ice cream truck and excitedly ran outside, change in hand, only to see said truck speeding away as it blasts its happy tune. :mad:
Didn’t someone in a thread a long time ago say that all the ice cream trucks in his town played “Greensleves?”
The garbage trucks here (Okinawa) play music so that people can get their garbage out. Ours plays christmas music.