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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 1946, he wrote the song Ridin' Double for the soundtrack of the 1946 film Sioux City Sue starring Gene Autry. [7] [8] He later wrote I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (1953) with Gayla Peevey singing the original version. It was a popular song with 39 artists singing the cover for it. [9]
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 ...
Run-DMC, "Christmas in Hollis" The 1987 Special Olympics charity album, A Very Special Christmas, had some incredible contributions from A-list artists like Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bruce ...
One Christmas: Chapter 1 is an extended play (EP) by American singer LeAnn Rimes. It was released on October 28, 2014 via the Iconic Entertainment Group and contained six tracks. It was released on October 28, 2014 via the Iconic Entertainment Group and contained six tracks.
"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 ...
A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf of the endangered species to be born at the zoo in the last five years, officials said.