Query: "I scream for ice-cream"

[Anne Gilbert]

Gerald:

>    I've received a request for the earliest datings of "I scream for
> ice-cream" and its variants. I remember hearing this at the Concord
> Hotel (Catskills) in the late '50's or early '60's but suspect it's
> older. Barry? Fred?

My parents used to tell me "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice
cream", so I think it goes back *at least* to the 1920's
Anne G


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