Meet the Singer Who Got a Hippo for Christmas
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(16 Dec 2016) When she recorded "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" in 1953, Gayla Peevey says she had no idea schoolchildren would be singing it 63 years later.
Or that people in her hometown of Oklahoma City would really raise the money to buy a 10-year-old girl a hippopotamus.
She gave that hippo, named Matilda, to the local zoo on Christmas Eve. It lived to be nearly 50.
Her song might live forever.
It's found today in ringtones, iTunes downloads and the voices of schoolchildren who sing it every holiday season.
It's even featured in a U.S. Postal Service commercial in which the post office boasts it ships more online gifts, hippopotamuses included, than anybody.
That's something the 73-year-old Peevey says she couldn't be happier about.
Now retired, she still sings regularly at her Southern California church.
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