Many of us, I am sure — recall hearing the approach of an ice cream truck, from a half mile off. The pling-ey sound-track was… unique — and unmistakable — and brought the kids right down into the street, all over the block.
We all knew the jingle most often played was “Away Down South, In Dixie” — a racists’ anthem.
But without the lyrics, and badly distorted by the tinny loudspeakers on the top of the rolling treat truck… it went mostly un-remarked upon.
Well, now the Good Humor ice cream folks are teaming up with RZA, of Wu-Tang Clan, to create a more welcoming (to all kids) and hopefully equally catchy tune — one without the racists’ slave song baggage.
I’ve posted this here, since Martin Shkreli (a topic of another blog of mine) owes much of his ongoing notoriety to his stunt in buying (and then faux-selling, on eBay) the album “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin” — and then losing the rights to it, to the US Marshals’ office, in asset seizure proceedings.
And — bonus! — it tweaks Hinderaker, on his desire to “preserve” our slavers’ heritage, as he sees it.
So it goes. Enjoy your sunny Saturdays folks… grin.
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