Ice Cream (King Mole Johnson) - Monty Sunshine Style

"Ice Cream", also known as "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream", is a 1927 novelty song by Howard Johnson, Billy Moll and Robert A. King, a favourite of traditional jazz bands. This page has the Ice Cream chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Ice Cream"

Robert A. King wrote the music, and Howard Johnson and Billy Moll the lyrics, a comic song built on the playground chant. It is a song with words. It was published in 1927 and recorded that year by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. In the 1950s the British trad-jazz revival took it up, and the version by Chris Barber's Jazz Band, featuring the clarinettist Monty Sunshine, made it a standard of that style.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians (1927) — an early recording from the year of publication.
• Chris Barber's Jazz Band, with Monty Sunshine (1950s) — the trad-jazz version, with Sunshine's clarinet and the band's chorus.