For several summers, Henry the Ice Cream Man has traversed the streets of Roslindale, always accompanied by this weird song featuring quacking ducks, oinking pigs, barking dogs and a maniac woman yelling "HEH-LO!"
This spring, Henry came around a couple times, then disappeared. Did he go back to Jordan? Was he abducted by aliens? No, he was spending the summer in Gloucester, where, apparently, the pickings are much better for ice-cream men (which we learned when he showed up on our street a couple weeks back on a gloomy day when business was non-existant on Cape Ann). So mostly it's been a summer without an ice-cream man. But today, some other guy showed up with a new(ish) truck and a similar song - no ducks, no pigs, no dogs, but still with the crazy lady yelling "HEH-LO!" To fully appreciate this, turn your sound way up, click on the photo and then imagine his truck stopped right outside your house (1.5M QuickTime file).
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Comments
I smell a techno remix!
By Spatch
Sun, 09/04/2005 - 12:41am
I smell a techno remix!
can't...stop....laughing...
By Aqua
Sun, 09/04/2005 - 3:32am
can't...stop....laughing...
PFFFT
By eeka
Sun, 09/04/2005 - 9:44pm
Dude. That TOTALLY reminds me of Mario Paint, the Super Nintendo game from about 1993. It was a paint program with a mouse to plug into your Nintendo (um?) and it would let you make animations and compose music to go with them. The composition section, being Mario-related and all, had horns, pianos, guitars, carhorns, ducks, pigs, elephants, someone shrieking...
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