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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.
Ian Wallace. Ian Bryce Wallace OBE (10 July 1919 – 12 October 2009) was an English bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor and broadcaster of Scottish extraction.. His family intended him for a career in the law, but he was attracted to the stage.
"Songs for Our Time": – "Philological Waltz" – "Satellite Moon" Sung by Flanders. – "Topical Song (Harold Macmillan)" – "A Happy Song" "A Song of the Weather" A litany of the months of the year, with their (cold and wet) weather, sung by Flanders in a faux West Country accent.
“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 City.
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.
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 ...