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It is included on her album Christmas in My Heart, released in 2013. American recording artist LeAnn Rimes released her cover of the song as a digital single [21] for her EP, One Christmas: Chapter 1 (2014). [22] American recording artist Kacey Musgraves recorded and released a version in 2016 for her Christmas album entitled A Very Kacey ...
The Oklahoma City Zoo capitalized upon the popularity of "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" with a fundraising campaign to "buy a hippo for Gayla". The fund raised $3,000 (equivalent to US$34,164 in 2023), and a baby hippopotamus named Matilda (who weighed over 700 pounds [ 2 ] ) was purchased and given to Peevey, which she then donated to ...
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 ...
His song It's a Big Wide Wonderful World (1939) was used in the soundtrack of multiple films. His holiday tune I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (1953) was a popular family entertainment song, originally sung by 10-year old Gayla Peevey. Many other artists also covered it. In 1948, he married actress Alice Pearce.
In mid-1994, Ex Girlfriend released "X In Your Sex". In August 1994, Ex Girlfriend released their second album It's a Woman Thang. [6] [7] The album failed to chart. After the second single "You for Me" failed to chart, the overall project ultimately became a commercial failure. In 1995, the group dissolved and each member pursue solo endeavors.
Mr. Christmas is the first Christmas album and fifth studio album by American country music artist Joe Diffie. It was released on September 19, 1995, through Epic Records. The song "Leroy the Redneck Reindeer" was released as a single, peaking at #33 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts that year ...
The song (probably the Finnish version) can be heard at length in the background (playing on the radio) of a scene in the Swedish film, My Life as a Dog-- the music for at least one stanza seems to be identical to the music for the song "All I Want for Christmas is a Hippopotamus"David 05:31, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Jewell Stovall, better known as Babe Stovall (October 14, 1907 – September 21, 1974), [1] was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist. [ 2 ] Stovall was born in Tylertown, Mississippi , United States, in 1907, [ 1 ] the youngest of eleven children (thus his nickname "Babe").