I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas Singer Tells Her Story - Gayla Peevey
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Interview with Gayla Peevey, who as a little girl in Oklahoma City, recorded the song " I want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" .
This segment is from documentary "OKC A to Z". Gayla now goes by Gayla Henderson and no longer lives in Oklahoma. She recounts story about how the song came about, how she recorded it, and how it became a national sensation. It also helped the OKC Zoo land a hippo.
Extended un-cut version of Gayla's interview that we did is here: • Revealed! Hippopotamus...
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Its crazy how her voice still sounds the same!
My 34 year old daughter and I sing this song every Christmas and it's a lot of fun to sing.
Beautiful voice!!!!
You deserve at least a million dollars!!
Cruel cruel world!!
We need a new 2024 version by Gayla! The remix!
Beautiful.
The world is very unfair not giving Gayla a dime.
yeah!!!!!
my sister had that COLUMBIA record in 78 RPM
1953..the flip side was are my ears on straight!
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Ay, she still got it!
This is one of my favorite whimsical Christmas songs.
I love her childlike voice! I had never heard her speaking voice before.
Glad to bring it to you
I was named after you!
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My new favorite Christmas song!
What a charming lady who retained her impish qualitiies of her youth.
I love this song it is one of my favorite songs
I finally found a stock issue of the 45 (red and gold) in near mint condition for under a dollar. Thank you Gayla Peevey. You made my Christmas complete.❤
Glad it made your Christmas complete!
I had no idea that she was from, or at least resided at one point in Oklahoma.
She still looks fairly young considering that song was from 1953, when she was 10. So I'm guessing this interview is old.. It's amazing that she still sounded almost the same as she did at 10 years old. Still sounded great.
Merry Christmas, everyone. ✝️
We should take a collection for her
"Christmas Car Ride with Motoki" video introduced me to the song 😂😂
She's a ray of sunshine.
Certainly is
I want to thank you so much you don't realize it but this song is my Happy song and I can't take life and it's all piling down on me I seem to listen and sing this and I'm okay again for a while thank you so much for the giggles
You're welcome
1:14 She should've received a writing credit for changing the lyrics.
You're right!
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You could tell at the beginning that she was singing like "oh boy, i have to do it AGAIN?!?" same with 1:54 LOL I bet she gets asked to sing it a lot, poor woman. Not even geting paid for it as well!
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I love it so much it's looks good I love it so much fun making flash back past life look story and history channel interview with oasr awesome picture awards TCM hollywood movies on Netflix with the same time as the best part of this song really remember reel thing
My son has to perform this song
She said that she got no compensation in royalties. I assume she got compensated for singing the song. If she didn't, then that's a real rip off. She was great.
She sounds like she's was sitting around she lives on
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OMG those wrong subtitles are sooo funny!! "I want to hit photographers for Christmas".
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that is very sad no money for she i looked he up she is 80 years old now 2023
I really wanted her to incorporate "hippo" after she said "zippo", which would've been cool, aside from the fact she actually gets zippo😮
she doesn't like she's in her 70s
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It's looks beautiful wonderful gril she was 10 year old girl galya peeva she was his own life story ture life movie made into new life live stream story and history channel VIP tickets tour New oasr awesome picture awards TCM channel on money made movie
Because she was not. This interview is from 2010. She was still in her 60s.
That’s messed up she doesn’t get anything. I guess it’s because they didn’t have stuff like that set up for artists like they do now.
Zippo for the Hippo
Somebody made a tribute to this song
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Can you imagine getting a hippopotamus for Christmas?
Aren’t Hippos dangerous and have disgusting habits?