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 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' ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The creator of the Mister Softee jingle heard in hundreds of ice cream trucks since 1960 has died. Les Waas was 94. Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks funeral home says Les Waas ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – 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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — 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 ...

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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 ...