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I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

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I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas is a Christmas novelty song written by John Rox 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.

The b side of the original 45 featured the song “Are my Ears on Straight?”

Gayla Peevey changed her name to Jamie Horton when she was 16.

The Oklahoma Zoo solicited its citizens to donate their change to buy Gayla a hippo, which she in turn donated to the zoo. There was no official agreement between the two parties.

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