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The campaign succeeded, and she was presented with an actual hippopotamus, which – as had been planned all along – she donated to the city zoo. [11] The hippopotamus lived for nearly 50 years. [10] In 2017, Peevey, then 73 years old, was again present when the Oklahoma City Zoo acquired a rare pygmy hippopotamus from the San Diego Zoo. [11 ...
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 ...
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. Pearce was Gladys Kravitz in the 1960s television situation comedy Bewitched. [1]
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" 48: 3 — "A Different Kind of Christmas" 50 — — "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 2005 60 — — "Santa Baby" [101] 2010 — — — — "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" 2014 — 25 — One Christmas: Chapter 1 "Celebrate Me Home" (with Gavin DeGraw) 2015 — 12: 25 Today Is Christmas "Today ...
'I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS' 70TH ANNIVERSARY SING-ALONG. Featuring: Gayla Peevey. When: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 9. Where: Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, 2000 Remington Place.
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) []
S. Santa and the Satellite; Santa Baby; Santa Bring My Baby Back (to Me) Santa Claus and His Old Lady; Santa Claus Is a Black Man; Santa Claus Is Back in Town
Donald Yetter Gardner (August 20, 1913 – September 15, 2004) was an American songwriter who is best known for writing the classic Christmas novelty song "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth".