I'm looking for samples, in .wav, .ogg or .mp3 format, of ice cream
van chimes - 'environmental' recordings of ice cream vans, or the
chimes themselves.

You know, the cheesy, distorted well-known tunes that they play so
distinctively...

Amazingly hard to find, yaxu.  However, along with the link provided
by my colleague websearcher below, I also found...

http://home.adelphia.net/~fhbals/music/icecreamtruck.wav

(Note: Will only be available for the next 7 days).

http://tulsatvmemories.com/icecream.html

Scroll down the page. Right-click on the link to download the .wav
file.

Related stuff...

http://www.watermelonpunch.com/chloe/soundfiles/sounds/icecreamtruck.html

Click to hear a .swf recording of an ice cream truck.

Dependent on how dedicated you are to finding ice cream truck music,
you might want to contact Micro Minatures at...

info@microminiatures.com

They have a slew of tunes as they note on their home page, "designed
with today's modern, intelligent, ice cream mobiler in mind who wants
to sell ice cream in style and not just announce a presence on the
street..."

However, for reasons know only to themselves, they've put all the
samples of their "chime music" inside of a password-protected
"members-only" area.  Perhaps a polite email to them will get you in.

regards,

rico

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Clarification of Answer by rico-ga on 23 Sep 2002 05:06 PDT

I realized that I didn't post the location information on Micro
Miniatures.  Home Page is...

http://www.microminiatures.com/

Their "chime tunes" list can be found by following the "Chimes &
Amplifiers" link.  As I said, an email to them might yield some more
tunes.

Search strategy: "ice cream truck music"; "ice cream truck sound"; 

regards,

rico

exactly what i wanted, thanks both.

I could only find one:

http://www.sounddogs.com/mp3/Music_Ice_Cream_Truck_195047.mp3

websearcher-ga