just in my city. I think I remember hearing an ice cream truck playing Beethoven once.

Wasn't exclusively Beethoven, I think had some cool jazz stuff too. Pretty good stuff, and I resisted purchasing!

Buttons and Bows. I've heard other songs in other cities, though.

Here, is this it?

Seems like an eerily appropriate symbol of Americana.

the two are very very similar. According to wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Your_Ears_Hang_Low%3F

'The melody of this song was partially taken from another: "Turkey in the Straw."'

But more often it's guys pushing ice cream carts and ringing bells, mostly older immigrants who look too worn out to pick crops anymore.

really it's distorted played thru a blown horn speaker that keeps repeating the same phrase .

I see myself as a lonely kid with no money--------sorry I zoned out there , I'm old and the sound still creeps me out.

from the TV show Bones?

I knew this guy who collected clown memorabilia, and he was a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work. Perhaps that's it.

truck around here plays.

It's from the Guns n' Roses album "Appetite for Destruction."

I have an excellent memory and pay scrupulous attention to detail.

plays Music Box Dancer

....but most often it's "Turkey In The Straw"

It was a little surreal hearing "Speak Softly Love" coming from an ice cream truck.

"You stiff me, I'll stiff you."

You can download a decibel meter for most smart phones. Most cities have a bylaw saying you can't exceed 70 dB. Most ice cream trucks are over 100 dB.

I was working a sound gig one time running 4000 Watts of power. An ice cream truck pulled up in the parking lot and I had to threaten him with prosecution before he would turn it down enough so people could hear my performers.

plays in london? We have a mantle clock that plays the same tune 'on the hour'. Every clock shop person I have asked has no idea.

plays an ice-cream truck version of La Cucaracha. Gotta love New Mexico.

Issues linking since posting on my phone sorry!

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=WZ5Px_tR3uo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWZ5Px_tR3uo

Plays Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer in July.

The truck also comes into the subdivision sometimes as late as 8:00 p.m. on winter nights when it's too dark for any "children" to be out.

One of those things that makes you go "hmmmmm".

Is called Turkey in Straw.