Gayla Peevey

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I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas 02:36 Tools
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero) 02:35 Tools
I Want A Hippo For Christmas 02:37 Tools
77 Santas 02:51 Tools
I Want a Hippotamus for Christmas 02:38 Tools
Got a Cold in the Node for Christmas 02:45 Tools
I Want a Hippopatamus for Christmas 02:38 Tools
I Want a Hippopotamus for Chri 02:38 Tools
I Want A Hippopotomus For Christmas 00:00 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero) (78 rpm Version) 02:34 Tools
The Angel in the Christmas Play 02:34 Tools
Are my ears on straight? 02:50 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero) [78 rpm Version] 02:46 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamous For Christmas 02:50 Tools
I Want a hippopotamus 00:00 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Hippopotamus for Christmas 00:00 Tools
Got A Cold In The Nose For Christmas 00:00 Tools
I Want a Hippoptamus for Christmas 00:00 Tools
Seventy Seven Santas 02:46 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Xmas 00:00 Tools
77 Santas (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Are My Ears on Straight 02:50 Tools
I Want A Hippopotomus For Chri 02:50 Tools
The Christmas Hippo Song 02:34 Tools
I Want A Hippo For Christmas (The Hippo Song) 02:34 Tools
I Want a Hippopatomus for Christmas 02:46 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (1953) 01:48 Tools
I Want A Hippotpotamus For Christmas 02:46 Tools
I Wanna Hippopotamus For Christmas 01:48 Tools
Robot Man 01:48 Tools
I Want a Hippop 02:46 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Chrismas 02:46 Tools
I wanta Hippopotamus for Christmas 02:34 Tools
Angel In the Christmas Play 02:34 Tools
The Hippopotamus Song 02:34 Tools
I Was a Hippopotamus for Christmas 02:34 Tools
Missin 02:34 Tools
I Want A Hippopotomus 02:34 Tools
The Hippo Song 02:34 Tools
I want a Hipppopotamus for Christmas 02:38 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero) @ 4Usonly.Biz 02:38 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Remastered) 02:38 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christ 02:38 Tools
Track_18 02:38 Tools
I Want A Hippopotomas For Christmas 02:38 Tools
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas / Are My Ears on Straight? 02:38 Tools
I Want a Hippopotamas For Christmas 02:38 Tools
I Want a Hippo 02:38 Tools
I Want A Hippopotamos For Christmas 02:38 Tools
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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. A baby hippo, named Matilda, was procured and flown in to Oklahoma City and presented by Peevey to the zoo. Gayla went on to record other children's songs for Columbia, such as Got a Cold In the Node For Christmas and Angel in the Christmas Play. She also recorded a duet with Columbia's other child singer Jimmy Boyd (who had the hit recording of I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus), entitled "I'm So Glad", and "Kitty in a Basket". In 1959, Gayla Peevey adopted the pseudonym Jamie Horton and recorded a series of pop singles for Joy Records. One of them, My Little Marine, reached a peak position of #84 in 1960 and was song #507 for that year. It was her only song that reached the Charts. Under the pseudonym, she also recorded Robot Man which was popular in Australia in 1960, and was later recorded by Connie Francis. She graduated from San Diego State University, and received a teaching degree. She left teaching and went into advertising, where she owned her own firm for 15 years. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.