RS023 -  The Real Song of the Summer
Channel: Reasonably Sound
Date: 27/11/2017

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It’s the ice cream truck jingle.  Even Mike’s hated Mr. Softee one.  Mike provides the secret origin of the jingle, touching on the Great Depression, the growth of the American middle class, the Good Humor Man, refrigeration, and bobsled bells.

SOURCES
Ice Cream: A Global History by Laura B. Weiss - http://amzn.to/2hVRDsq
Ding, Ding!: The Commodity Aesthetic of Ice Cream Truck Music by Daniel T Neely - http://bit.ly/2hVggpa
A Brief History of the Ice Cream Truck - http://bit.ly/2hVphhW
Nichols Electronics Co - http://bit.ly/2hTNzc5
Putting the ‘Mr.’ in Soft Ice Cream - http://nyti.ms/2hVDono

Racist History of “Turkey in the Straw”:
Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You - http://n.pr/2hTc897
That Viral Story About the Racist Ice Cream Song Is Wrong - http://bit.ly/2hUZkPl

A PREVIOUS VERSION OF THIS EPISODE CONTAINED MUSIC BY
Intro: Ice Cream Man by Tom Waits from Closing Time
Break #1: Shut Up And Drive (Far Away) by the Deftons from Around the Fur
Break #2: Star Spangled Banner, Rock Version - http://bit.ly/1PgbFX9