The trucks are out. Spring is here. Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photos: Getty Images The trucks are out. Spring is here. Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photos: Getty Images Yesterday, as I ...

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 ...

The Mister Softee trucks have been rolling down my block for months, since well before it was even remotely summer (or perhaps more worrisomely, I've simply been hearing the song in my head). But now ...

The creator of the Mister Softee jingle heard in hundreds of ice cream trucks since 1960 has died. Les Waas was 94. Les Waas died April 19 at Abington Hospice in Warminster, Pennsylvania, Goldsteins' ...

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, ...

For millions of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, the lilting jingle tinkling from slow-moving Mister Softee ice cream trucks conjures up nostalgic memories. But the realities the company’s dwindling number ...

Les Waas, the advertising legend behind the Mister Softee jingle heard in hundreds of ice cream trucks for more than half a century, has died. He was 94. Waas died April 19 at Abington Hospice in ...

The jingle of a nearby ice cream van is a sure sign that summer is approaching. But you never have to guess when the next time a popular ice cream truck might roll through your neighborhood because ...