ice cream truck music

[jwgh]

WFMU's Liz Berg posted a few links to mp3s of ice cream trucks, including the 'Down By The Station' one that has tortured Kibo for the past couple of years.

This made me think of what songs might make good ice cream truck jingles. A few jazz tunes might be nice; I'm thinking John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps' (which I once heard a tuba player play an awesome version of on Thayer Street) and maybe Thelonious Monk's 'Mysterioso'.

I'm also strangely attracted to the idea of hearing an ice cream truck playing an arrangement of 'I Wanna Be Sedated'.

What would you pick?

Comments

[mskala.livejournal.com]

I didn't recognize "Down by the Station" by name, but on reading the Kibo post it's apparent that this is the same tune to which my mother once taught me a song she'd learnt in Girl Scouts, about a man who immigrated to the USA to run a laundry because after the Triad boss stole his girlfriend there was nothing left for him back home in Hong Kong.

I don't think the Girl Scouts sing that song anymore.