The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 13, 2019

Haven’t you heard, Wilberforce? “When the ice cream truck plays music, it’s means it’s all out of ice cream.” One person was told “That’s not an ice cream truck, that’s a music truck.”

In USA probably the The Entertainer, UK Greensleeves – see http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160728-the-ice-cream-truck-jingles-summer-spell

in our neighborhood it is Frank Mills Music box dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwa0c8VO71s

Somewhere in an insane asylum there’s a poor former ice cream truck driver afflicted with a perpetual ear worm of “The Entertainer” in his head.

Ours was Turkey in the Straw, also known as Do Your Ears Hang low. Something else was often substituted for “Ears.”

Good Humor truck was white and open . He just rang bells! Toasted almond was my favorite and I guess still is if they still make them.

Got to wonder if those poor souls that drive those trucks last for more than one season.. Listening to that “music” for the duration of the time it takes to pass my house is enough to drive me batty.

I heard an ice cream truck here playing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, in May.

It Stephen Wright’s neighborhood it plays “Helter Skelter”.