Tuesday Trivia: June 16, 2020
Published June 2020
By Greg Elwell | 1 min read
Gayla Peevey meets Mathilda the hippopotamus at the Oklahoma City Zoo in this marked-up photo from 1953. Photo courtesy Oklahoma Publishing Co./Oklahoma Historical Society
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One of our favorite Oklahoma stories is that of Gayla Peevey, the Oklahoma City native who recorded a hit Christmas song when she was just ten years old. Contrary to popular believe, Peevey did not record “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” as a fundraiser for the Oklahoma City Zoo. Instead, the popularity of the song was so great that a local marketer teamed up with the zoo for a fundraiser to buy a hippo for Gayla, which was then donated to the zoo. Mathilda the hippo lived for forty-five years at the zoo.
What was the B-side song on Gayla’s “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” single?
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