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Ours announces the arrival of FAB lollies, vapes and Es to the tune of The A Team.
When I was a kid it was Green Sleaves from a vehicle that looked like it pre-dated the Battle of Britain.
I also have memories of the kid from over the road letting one of the tyres down and getting dragged through the hatch and covered in raspberry sauce for his troubles.
It was Popeye the sailor man for us kids 😃
Our local van (which comes around every Sunday at 3pm) does the classic Teddy Bear's Picnic at the moment, but a few years ago the same van definitely did the A Team too.
The one that currently does the rounds keeps it real with "Greensleeves" turned up to 11.
The Blue Peter theme. Which we assume is a wind-up, as one of its most famous ever presenters lives just outside the village.
Match of the Day theme tune features regularly for ours.
Match of the Day here too, are we neighbours?
My local ice-cream van plays a rousing rendition of John Philip Sousa's march called The Liberty Bell.
Although most folk just know it as the Monty Python theme.
When my kids were young they thought* the usic indicated that the van had run out of ice cream.
*I may have accidently taught them this was the case.
We have two. The first is “I love to go a wandering…”
I don’t know the name of the second, but it goes:
de-diddly-diddly-ding
de-ding-de-ding-de-ding-ding
Home: Match of the Day.
Work: Greensleeves (Delivering supplies to the ladies of the nearby 'massage parlour' Illusions)
We used to have one. It was Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone. You know a tune is a classic when you can convert it into an ice cream jingle and it still sounds good.
The bloke was very, very old though and we haven't seen him since 'the before times'.
I used to know the owner of the cafe that did deliveries to the local knocking shop. Salted jacket spuds. Takes away the taste apparently.
Said knocking shop is above a chippy, which doesn't say much for the quality of the chips if they have to bring their salty potato based lunches in from further afield.
O Sole Mio (aka just one Cornetto)
I tell the kids when they play the tune that means they've sold out
The van in question chucks out so much smoke it probably has its own private hole in the ozone layer
At uni,on the dodgy estate in Stoke, there was one that had the zither music from the third man. Not good for come down paranoia on a sunday morning!
Home: Match of the Day.
From previous threads mentioning locations, I think that's probably the same van as me.
local van plays the mothy python theme tune
van I can hear when out on my bike in Glennifer braes plays dixieland
Not the ice cream van but our regular sandwich van on the estate plays the old Batman theme - "Dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner....." you know the rest
One near me plays the theme from the Third Man. I love the idea that the kids of south east London are all into 1940s British film noir.
I’ll have a (Harry) Lime Sorbet please?
this piece of badass music 😉
edit only joking but it would be great if it was.
Not local, but down Tenby a few weekends ago and was treated to Benny Hill
The Ace of Spades would make a great jingle.
Whistle while you work,
Hitler is a berk...
I don’t know the tune but it comes with this…
I only know it as the Roger Ramjet theme tune but I’m sure it must have originally come from something else.
I did think the other day that there needs to be a better nationwide app that tracks ice-cream vans real-time so I could go and find one. Would be perfect for long ride refreshments too.
I also have memories of the kid from over the road letting one of the tyres down and getting dragged through the hatch and covered in raspberry sauce for his troubles.
After they found the body, the inquest concluded that he'd topped himself.
Working in Wakefield one time, the morning was punctuated by an ice-cream van playing the Batman theme. "Oh," says someone, "the sandwiches are here." Huh?
So I moseyed down to the car park, to discover The Bap Van.
Mine's on the estate now. Match of the Day.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly here
I'd love it if we had this one:
What a bizarre and fascinating thread. Where do they get these from? I assume they aren't real music boxes any more and are recordings, but they all sound exactly like music boxes so that must mean someone is putting these tunes out. Somewhere there's a company producing these and selecting the tunes. Can someone get Dave Gorman on to it please?
When I was a kid it was Teddybear's Picnic and Greensleeves, but in my part of Cardiff it's Match of the Day.
Most of the country's 5,000 ice-cream van chimes are made by MicroMiniatures in Staffordshire, which for 25 years has offered the most technologically advanced chimes (most are now digital) and an extensive range of tunes, from Jerusalem to The Stripper, via Nessun Dorma, Cherry Ripe and Waltzing Matilda.
"Our most popular chimes are O Sole Mio, Greensleeves and Match of the Day," says the company's Rich Lister. "We also provide a service to have custom chimes, so if the customer wants a particular song or their own jingle we can put this on to a chime. Most recently, we have produced Soul Limbo (the Test Match Cricket theme) and Amarillo of Tony Christie & Peter Kay fame."
http://www.microminiatures.com/tunes.html
Bobby Shaftoe.
Driven by Paolo - I've him known for years, and he has a PhD in Italian. Takes payment by card too.
Always fancied being an ice cream man. Seems like a chilled job.
When I was a kid our local one played La Cucaracha. There were two local Italian firms and the daughters of both were at my school. Hated each other. Ice cream wars have ruined generations 😂
Ours is "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me".
Not heard that until moving here.
Back home (South East) the ones I recall have alreadt been mentioned (Greensleeves & Match of the day are definitely ones I remember).
Said knocking shop is above a chippy, which doesn’t say much for the quality of the chips if they have to bring their salty potato based lunches in from further afield.
Home of the Jumbo Cod?
I always thought the knocking shop was the one that looks like an undertakers on the other end of the block.....you live and learn.
Hitler Has Only Got One Ball..
Home of the Jumbo Cod?
Kerrect!
Never could work out if "Jumbo Cod" was a big fish from the chippy downstairs or some sort of specialist service/beating from upstairs.
I'm just trying to get over the fact that ice cream vans are able to play tunes other than Greensleeves!
... and am reminded also of the Ivor Biggun song about the Ice Cream man.
"Match of the Day"
I hate it 🙁
Doo doo dooo, doo doo dooo, do doo do doo do do dooooo.
No one here buys ice cream from the 'van', because our local town centre has a home made 'gelato shop'. Only £2.50 for a small 'baked' cone. At least 8 flavours on any given day. Queues out of the shop at the weekend, in this scorchio weather.
A Team by us as well - which means the van does quite a patch if they do whitefield and right to the other end of prestwich; I wonder how the sales patches are agreed, is it a council managed scheme or do they have some form of secret meeting place with a mafia Don Whippy ??
Never could work out if “Jumbo Cod” was a big fish from the chippy downstairs or some sort of specialist service/beating from upstairs.
Just don't order the Red Snapper.
That's all I'm saying.
Or a battered sausage.
😀
Sandwich van at work plays the test match cricket theme!
'Match of the day' this weekend!
RE the chippy connection - coincidentally the knocking shop is next door to the chippy. The same guy owns both.
When I was kid growing up in Bolton, Manfredi's was the local ice cream 'big noise'. Local schoolkids used to nip over his yard wall and force the van windows open to steal stuff overnight.
Good job they didn't get caught as the Manfredi's could be a bit 'hot headed'...
Manfredi was previously jailed for arson with intent to endanger life and false imprisonment in 2004, having set a man he caught trespassing on his business on fire in October the previous year.
Darren Matthews was held in a car inspection pit at the Lifford Street ice cream factory before Manfredi doused him in white spirit and flicked a cigarette he had been smoking at him.
The victim suffered 60 per cent third degree burns, was unconscious for three months and had to undergo more than 20 operations following the incident.
It was a Manfredi van that my mate Sandeep let the tyres down on before being dragged through the hatch!
Jingle was "Pop Goes The Weasel" IIRC.
Teddy bears picnic here too
Ours plays “I’m for ever blowing bubbles”. Annoys me, because once I hear it, I find myself whistling it for the rest of the day, which makes me sound like a West Ham fan. Hate West Ham.
Raindrops keep falling on my head.
Just outside now
Anyone playing Greensleeves should be boycotted.
I reckon 'Ride of the Valkyries' is where it's at.
Having direct experience, this is a cut-throat business. We had 3 different prices, depending on how rich/poor the area was.
I wonder how the sales patches are agreed, is it a council managed scheme or do they have some form of secret meeting place with a mafia Don Whippy ??
Well the Trillos of Whitby owner was up before The Beak a few years ago for attacking a van owned by Mr Trillo who he'd bought the business off:
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/yorkshire-post/20150513/281754152895239
Their Whitby Gothic flavour is good though (blackcurrant and liquorice). No jingle but a fixed spot on the top prom here.
Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the Heels of Love
(It's really Match of the Day, of course).
Playground Bang Around by Ryc Spangle
The one that comes round here hasn’t been lately, and I can’t remember what the tune is. His ice cream is that horrible ‘plastic’ stuff that extrudes out of a machine. I prefer the proper solid ice cream that has to be scraped out with a proper scoop!
When I was a kid, there was a van came from Bristol, did wonderful ice cream, it was very creamy, and I’ve never found any other ice cream that tastes like it. Can’t remember the name of the company, sadly, it was around sixty years ago…
I can get tubs of Marshfield Farm Ice Cream from the farm shop just outside of town, though - their honeycomb one is superb, as is their chocolate with chocolate chunks in, and the lemon sorbet is outstanding; it’s very difficult to stop myself from scoffing an entire plastic tub at one sitting.
Ride of the Valkyries might have been appropriate for this lot. Typical weegies 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars
I couldn't remember until it came round just now.
It's Hugo Alfvén - Swedish Rhapsody No. 1.
No one here buys ice cream from the ‘van’, because our local town centre has a home made ‘gelato shop’. Only £2.50 for a small ‘baked’ cone. At least 8 flavours on any given day. Queues out of the shop at the weekend, in this scorchio weather.
Ours plays Greensleeves and cynically hangs around outside the local school at kicking out time like the chid catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. No-one here buys ice cream from the 'van', because the town centre has a vape shop and the local kids prefer destroying their lungs to lining their arteries with god-knows what godforsaken artificially created, super-saturated ultra-processed fat derivative.
I bet you lot have eco-friendly, home-made, organic vapes with at least 80 flavours on any given day 😉
One of my pals told his kids
"oh, sorry kids, they only play that music to signal that they’ve run out of icecream".
My girlfriend tried to pull the same trick on me (not English) told me music was when they ran out and was going home.
Dont know what current ones tune is but years ago we had one using The Good the bad and the ugly theme, was so good, i miss that every summer