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"The Hippopotamus"—one of Flanders and Swann's best-known songs (because of its memorable chorus, "Mud, mud, glorious mud"), and one of a range of songs that they wrote about different beasts, including:
Its refrain ("Mud, mud, glorious mud,/Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood") suggested the titles for both of his volumes of memoirs. In his Who's Who profile, under "hobbies", he wrote "singing a song about a hippopotamus to children of all ages."
Each performance ended with the "Hippopotamus" song, ... "The Hippopotamus" (Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud) Encores – Words from the Lord Chamberlain's regulations:
“I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” singer Gayla Peevey poses with a plush hippo. “We both thought it was god-awful,” said Gardner, according to Deardoctor.com. “I said, ‘My God ...
[94] [95] Hippos were mentioned in the novelty Christmas song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" that became a hit for child star Gayla Peevey in 1953. [96] They also feature in the songs "The Hippopotamus" and "Hippo Encore" by Flanders and Swann, with the famous refrain "Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud".
She gained early fame after Gayla Peevey's hit song, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," was used to bolster schoolchildren's fundraising efforts to bring the hippo from New York to Oklahoma ...
The Hippopotamus (1994) is a comic novel by Stephen Fry.Written in part as an epistolary novel, it is largely narrated by the main character Edward "Ted" Wallace.Wallace is an alcoholic washed-up poet and theatre critic who, having been fired from his newspaper job, accepts a lucrative commission from his terminally ill goddaughter to investigate rumours of miracle healings at Swafford Hall ...
Hippopotamus is the 23rd studio album by American rock group Sparks. It was released on September 8, 2017, through BMG Rights Management and The End Records , their first record issued on a major label for decades.