RARE GAYLA PEEVEY PICTURE SLEEVE 78 I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS PB211 E

Sold Date: July 12, 2014
Start Date: July 5, 2014
Final Price: £23.22 (GBP)
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS 78 IN A PHILIPS PICTURE SLEEVE

Have you ever heard the song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" sung by Gayla Peevey? If not (or if you'd just like to hear it again), click .

John Rox wrote the song in 1950. It became a hit in the USA in 1953 when some savvy PR people had ten-year-old Gayla sing it as part of a money-raising campaign to get a hippo for the Oklahoma City Zoo. Kids were encouraged to send in their change and voila! Gayla got her hippo. (Matilda. Which of course Gayla immediately "donated" to the zoo.). It did not bother the Charts in the UK though.....

 

GAYLA PEEVEY - I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door, that's the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian

There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!

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UK PHILIPS PB 211   10"  78rpm SHELLAC    CONDITION IS RATED AS EX/EX-       HERE'S A CHANCE TO PICK UP THIS RARE CHILDRENS XMAS 78  

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