I Want A Hippo For Christmas Synced To Lights


I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas synced to lights.

Posted by Xmas Lights on November 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
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    amberbamber69 Says:

    The song was not written specifically for the Oklahoma zoo, its just that when they needed the hippo the song came out so the Christmas hippopotamus song just fitted in.

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    amberbamber69 Says:

    Here’s an interesting fact about the popular Christmas hippopotamus song – in 1953 a ten-year-old girl from Oklahoma, Gayla Peevey sang the song as a way to raise money for the Oklahoma City Zoo’s first hippopotamus. It became a nationwide hit after that, although John Rox wrote the song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” in 1950!

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    amberbamber69 Says:

    I love this song and have for years. I did a lot of research when there was no info out there on the net. Now it’s very popular. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas is a Christmas novelty song written by John Coctoasten and performed by Gayla Peevey in 1953. It is a Dr. Demento Christmas staple, and is currently available on Dr. Demento’s The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Vol. 6: Christmas.

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    hgrodriguez01 Says:

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!

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    sonyachristina Says:

    Excellent Song!! I usually only hear this when I’m driving through the mountains of NC. Good to hear it again. Can you believe that’s a woman singing that!!!!! YEP THATS RIGHT!! lol

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    arielnicole Says:

    does anybody know a way to get this on an i-pod? i can’t find a way. lol

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    Thedarklordchucles Says:

    I love this song too. . . I wonder who sings it?. . .

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    ajogg Says:

    Gayla Peevey sings it. 

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    chelsaestaton2012 Says:

    this song is so cute. . i love it

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    Keitafox Says:

    wow. . . just wow, these guys mustve been BORED!!! 5/5

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