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In October 1953, Peevey performed the song on The Ed Sullivan Show in an episode that would air on November 15, 1953. A popular legend holds that this 1953 hit had been recorded as a fundraiser to bring the city zoo a hippo, but in a 2007 radio interview with Detroit-based WNIC radio station, Peevey clarified that the song was not originally ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
"Probably Wouldn't Be This Way" is a song recorded by American country music artist LeAnn Rimes. It was written by John Kennedy and Tammi Kidd and produced by Dann Huff.It was released on March 21, 2005, as the second single from Rimes's seventh studio album This Woman (2005).