The biggest revelation from yesterday's City Counil hearing on the noise ban was that even Mr. Softee owner James Conway Jr. thinks the Mr. Softee song is annoying! He told the City Council, "I have ...

The official start of summer means it's time for the return of the annual urban earworm, the Mister Softee jingle. Resistance is futile, so here instead is another way to fight: reappropriation. The ...

MADELEINE: I’m one of those generally despised people who doesn’t have to work to stay thin. I’ve never had to MADELEINE: I’m one of those generally despised people who doesn’t have to work to stay ...

We all scream for ice cream, but some New Yorkers are screaming mad over Mister Softee and its iconic jingle. Nearly 1,300 complaints were filed with the city over the past 12 months about having to ...

I say this every time that the Mister rings his bells: Mrs. Softee is lonely during the torrid nights of a New York summer, wondering for whom her man plays his song. Mister Softee is no damn good, ...

In an article that will surely win The New York Times a Pulitzer, Dan Barry undergoes an experiment with the Mr. Softee jingle. Gothamist and our readers are very familiar with the jingle, but Barry ...

There’s no sound that sounds more like summer than hearing a Mister Softee ice cream truck's jingle, knowing that a cool, sweet treat is just steps away. For the greater part of the past six decades, ...

The creepy, slowed-down version of the ubiquitous Mister Softee jingle has been playing through the LinkNYC kiosks. The off-kilter ice cream truck song was first noticed last week by passersby playing ...

Jul. 26—WILKES-BARRE — On a recent drive through the homeland — Plymouth, Pa. — I turned down Gaylord Avenue, and halfway down, I saw it — a Mister Softee truck. The familiar music of my childhood was ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. WILKES-BARRE — On a recent drive through the homeland — Plymouth, Pa. — I turned down Gaylord Avenue, and halfway down, I saw it ...