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Gayla Peevey

Gayla Peevey

oldiesfemale vocalists50spopcomedy
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About Gayla Peevey

Gayla Peevey (born 1943) is perhaps best known for her song, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Columbia, 1953). A child star from Oklahoma City, she was 10 years old when she recorded the novelty song written by John Rox in 1950. The Oklahoma City Zoo capitalized upon the popularity of the song in 1953 through a fund raising campaign to "buy a hippo for Gayla" in order to bring a hippo to the zoo. (They had no hippopotamus at the time.) The song raised $3,000.

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Top Tracks

1

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero)

644.2K plays
2

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

82.1K plays
3

77 Santas

2.9K plays
4

I Want a Hippo for Christmas

2.6K plays
5

Got a Cold in the Node for Christmas

1.5K plays
6

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero) - Sped Up

469 plays
7

I Want a Hippopatamus for Christmas

1.1K plays
8

The Angel in the Christmas Play

335 plays
9

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero) [78 rpm Version]

652 plays
10

I Want a Hippopotamus for Chri

520 plays
11

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero) - Slowed & Reverb

259 plays
12

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Remastered)

313 plays
13

Are my ears on straight?

352 plays
14

I Want A Hippopotomus For Christmas

508 plays
15

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 18, 1953

199 plays
16

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero) (78 rpm Version)

187 plays
17

I Want a Hippoptamus for Christmas

221 plays
18

I Wany a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Esselunga Commercial Spot)

102 plays
19

I Want A Hippo For Christmas (The Hippo Song)

92 plays
20

I Want a Hippotamus for Christmas

159 plays
21

I Want a hippopotamus

230 plays
22

The Christmas Hippo Song

84 plays
23

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Digitally Remastered)

184 plays
24

Hippopotamus for Christmas

92 plays
25

Seventy Seven Santas

55 plays
26

Got A Cold In The Nose For Christmas

601 plays
27

77 Santas (Remastered)

100 plays
28

Are My Ears on Straight

110 plays
29

I Want A Hippopotamus For Xmas

162 plays
30

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero) (Audio)

44 plays
31

I Want A Hippopotomus For Chri

53 plays
32

Angel In the Christmas Play

105 plays
33

I Want a Hippop

78 plays
34

I Want a Hippopotamous for Christmas

122 plays
35

I Want a Hippopatomus for Christmas

102 plays
36

I Wanna Hippopotamus For Christmas

57 plays
37

Robot Man

44 plays
38

I Want A Hippopotamus For Chrismas

63 plays
39

Missin

23 plays
40

I wanta Hippopotamus for Christmas

13 plays
41

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero) @ 4Usonly.Biz

30 plays
42

I Was a Hippopotamus for Christmas

14 plays
43

I Want A Hippopotomus

88 plays
44

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero) (Slowed & Reverb)

13 plays
45

I want a Hipppopotamus for Christmas

53 plays
46

Wish I Wuz A Whisker

37 plays
47

Daddy's Report Card

29 plays
48

The Night I Ran Away

25 plays
49

I Want a Hippopotamas For Christmas

30 plays
50

A Dog Named Joe

19 plays

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