A children's favorite, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" features words and music by John Rax and was originally performed in 1953 by Gayle Peevey. Peevey, besides recording ''Hippo'' and its flip side, ''Are my Ears on Straight?'', also recorded several other novelty songs, including ''Angel in a Christmas Play'', ''Got a Cold in my Node for Christmas'', and others. At the time of its release, the "Hippo" song was used by the Oklahoma City Zoo to raise nickels and dimes from youngsters to bring a new hippopotamus to the zoo. The public relations ploy worked and the zoo soon got a hippo who they named Matilda.
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