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Gayla Peevey's song 'I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas' helped bring a hippo to OKC Zoo
She was a children's Christmas song ... life. On Dec. 24, 1953, a 700-pound "baby" lumbered from her moving crate into the awaiting water at Oklahoma City's Lincoln Park Zoo. "I Want a ...
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Bronze sculpture of 'I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas' singer coming to OKC Zoo
The OKC Zoo is expected to welcome its newest art installation, a life ... hippo, safely immered in her new home, stares up at Gayla Peevey, the little girl whose fast-selling Christmas song ...
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Gayla Peevey's song 'I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas' helped bring a hippo to OKC Zoo
She was a children's Christmas song come to life. On Dec. 24, 1953, a 700-pound "baby" lumbered from her moving crate into the awaiting water at Oklahoma City's Lincoln Park Zoo. "I Want a ...