Thursday, December 10, 2009

"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas!" ...what's YOUR favorite Christmas tune?

I tell you what...you can be in the worst mood, and then "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" comes on the radio, and there comes that smile!  LOL..That is the cutest song I have heard SINCE "Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer"...

Here is the YouTube link to "Hippopotamus"...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqIM_bPTws

Wikipedia's link to "I want a Hippopotamus For Christmas"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_a_Hippopotamus_for_Christmas  The song was written by John Rox in the early 1900's and sung by a little girl (Gayla Peevey) who was only 10 years old at the first time the song was performed in 1953.  What a cutie!  Columbia Records was the recording giant who released the song. 

The story goes that Gayla Peevey's recording was such a hit that a campaign was launched to give her a real hippo.  IT WORKED.  She received a hippopotamus, and donated it to the zoo.  I have to say...you go girl....what a woman!