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Bob Keeshan, as Captain Kangaroo, recorded a version of the song in 1961 with his collaborator Lumpy Brannum as Mr. Green Jeans. [19] Malcolm T. Elliot recorded and released a version in 1975. The song peaked at number 83 in Australia. [20] Country music singer Gretchen Wilson recorded a rendition in late 2009.
In this 1953 photograph, Mathilda the hippo, safely immered in her new home, stares up at Gayla Peevey, the little girl whose fast-selling Christmas song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas ...
Happy Hippo (pink), Henry Hippo (orange), Homer Hippo (green), and Harry Hippo (yellow) ... In 2009, the song in the commercial was the "Elefun and Friends" theme ...
Ten-year-old Gayla Peevey performed "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" in 1953 and her version remains one of the silliest (and the most popular) Christmas songs on radio waves each year. 6 ...
43. “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” by Gayla Peevey. Warning: This song may or may not inspire your kids to dream up the most ridiculous Christmas wish list. We hope Santa is prepared ...
Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus is an album by American music group Cloud Cult, released in June 2005 by Earthology Records. The song "Lucky Today" was used in an advertising campaign for Esurance that showed the band performing the song while sitting on clouds.
The genre is an industry unto itself, and the greats of music have made holiday songs. But with so many seasonal tunes, there are a few clunkers as well. Here are the 10 worst, in chronological order.
Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo and musicians. Michael Flanders (1922–1975) was a lyricist, actor, and singer. He collaborated with Donald Swann (1923–1994), a composer and pianist, in writing and performing comic songs.