1. The maid who stuffed the big collection of old ballads into the fireplace to start her fires before Bishop Percy noticed what she was doing and saved some scorched ones. Around 1760ish.
2. Oliver Cromwell and friends.
3. The Norman Luboff Choir.

About the icecream vans. Ours here in Australia do indeed play Greensleves. A friend of mine's brother gets his revenge, (not as colourfully as Jeri I have to say though!) by telling his kids that when the van plays the music it means it has run out of icecream.
                                       Joy