If there's a sound that brings back memories of my childhood summers, it's the sound of ...nothing. When I was little, the only thing I did was study to get ahead of the other kids when we started school in the fall, so the only sounds I heard in the summer was light tapping on the keyboard of my Apple 2e (or something).
Oh alright. The music that came from ice cream trucks is also a quintessential sound of summer, especially for Michael Hearst, who just released his self-explanatory new solo release, Songs for Ice Cream Trucks. The music was recorded specifically for ice cream trucks -- the high pitched chimes, and sounds from slightly more bizarre instruments.
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7-25-2007 @ 10:24AM
JMForester said...
Those chimes sound even worse than the Mr. Softy song.
When I was 17 and had just graduated high school I had a Good Humor ice cream truck for the summer. I hooked up my tape player to the pa system and played Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man" and we were known throughout the city as the "Rock & Roll Ice Cream Truck."
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7-25-2007 @ 1:06PM
Barry said...
Anything is better than hearing "Turkey In The Straw" or "The Entertainer" on a continuous loop. Those are the two tracks I have to suffer through in my neighborhood everyday.
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