Title: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Content:  "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" is a Christmas novelty song written by John Rox (1902–1957)      and performed by Gayla Peevey (10 years old at the time) in 1953. The song peaked at number 24 on Billboard magazine's pop chart in December 1953.
Title: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Content:  The B-side of the original 78 featured the song "Are my Ears on Straight?"
Title: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Content:  It is a Dr. Demento Christmas staple, and is currently available on his album The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Vol. 6: Christmas. A version by Vicki Dale and the Peter Pan Orchestra was released in 1953. The Three Stooges also recorded a version in 1959. Bob Keeshan, as Captain Kangaroo, recorded a version of the song in 1961 with his collaborator Lumpy Brannum as Mr. Green Jeans. Malcolm T Elliot recorded and released a version in 1975. The song peaked at number 83 in Australia. Country music singer Gretchen Wilson recorded a rendition in late 2009. It debuted at No. 54 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts dated for January 2, 2010. It is included on her album Christmas in My Heart, released in 2013. American recording artist LeAnn Rimes released her cover of the song as a digital single for her EP, One Christmas: Chapter 1 (2014).
Title: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Content:  WNIC radio station, Peevey clarified that the song was not originally recorded as a fundraiser. Instead, a local promoter picked up on the popularity of the song and Peevey's local roots, and launched a campaign to present her with an actual hippopotamus on Christmas. The campaign succeeded, and she was presented with an actual hippopotamus, which she donated to the city zoo. The hippopotamus lived for nearly 50 years. Peevey, by this point 73 years old, was again present when the Oklahoma City Zoo acquired a rare pygmy hippopotamus in 2017. Gayla Peevey later recorded as Jamie Horton, scoring the Billboard Hot 100-charter "My Little Marine" in 1960.
Title: Christmas music
Content: "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" sung by 10-year-old Gayla Peevey (1953) ; "Nuttin' for Christmas" by Art Mooney and Barry Gordon, who was seven years old when he sang it (1955) ; "¿Dónde Está Santa Claus? (Where is Santa Claus?)" sung by 12-year-old Augie Rios, featuring the Mark Jeffrey Orchestra (1959) "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth", written by Donald Yetter Gardner in 1944 and introduced by Spike Jones and his City Slickers (1948) ; "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" with music and lyrics by British songwriter Tommie Connor was first recorded by 13-year-old Jimmy Boyd in 1952, reaching No. 1 on the 
Title: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Content:  Peevey was a child star who was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her family moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma, when she was five. When released nationally by Columbia Records the song shot to the top of the charts, and the Oklahoma City Zoo acquired a baby hippo named Matilda. In October 1953, Peevey performed the song on The Ed Sullivan Show in an episode that would air on November 15, 1953. A video of this performance is available on her website. A popular legend holds that this 1953 hit had been recorded as a fundraiser to bring the city zoo a hippo, but in a 2007 radio interview with 
Title: All I Really Want for Christmas
Content:  All I Really Want for Christmas is the third Christmas album and thirteenth studio album by Steven Curtis Chapman, released on September 27, 2005. The album includes traditional holiday favorites such as "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Silver Bells", as well as some of Chapman's own Christmas songs, some of which had appeared on his previous Christmas albums. Chapman's adopted daughter, Shaohannah, appears with her father on the album cover. On the first track, she reads the passage of the Nativity of Jesus (Luke 2:7-14) with the music of "The Night Before Christmas" (track 13) in the background.
Title: The Star (song)
Content:  Hugh McIntyre from Fuse felt that the record "was made for a 90's Disney animated film", mentioning that "Carey doesn't push herself on the ballad, keeping things simple and sweet instead". Mikey Fresh from Vibe writes that Mariah "uses her signature vocals to capture the X-mas spirit on the animated movie's title track." Reviewing the song, Lucas Villa from AXS states that "Piano and twinkling production back Mariah recounting the magical night Jesus was born." Victoria Messina from PopSugar wrote that "this brand-new jam just might give 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' a run for its money."
Title: All I Want (For Christmas)
Content:  "All I Want (For Christmas)" is a song by British singer Liam Payne. It was released as a single on 25 October 2019 by Capitol Records as a bonus track off Payne's debut studio album LP1.
Title: All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
Content:  Year!!!" Homer and Jethro parodied the song as "All I Want for Christmas Is My Upper Plate", on their 1968 album Cool Crazy Christmas. Drag performer and singer RuPaul parodied the song on his Christmas album Ho Ho Ho. In his version, the singer lists "a litany of plastic surgery requests" that he would like to receive for the holiday. In 1986, the song title was parodied in "All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" by the band Half Man Half Biscuit on The Trumpton Riots EP. Country music parodist Cledus T. Judd parodied the song on his 2002 Christmas album Cledus Navidad. Titled "All I Want for Christmas Is Two Gold Front Teef", Judd's parody is performed in rap.

Question: who sang original i want a hippopotamus for christmas?
Answer: Gayla Peevey.