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 ...

from Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song" to "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas," recorded by a 10-year-old Gayla Peevey in 1953.

But Peevey's original rendition remains the perennial ... The OKC Zoo is planning to put its ties with the classic Christmas song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” in bronze with a new ...

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 ...