"baby" lumbered from her moving crate into the awaiting water at Oklahoma City's Lincoln Park Zoo. "I Want a ...
"Then, (there's) the longevity of the song, and the fact that it's the original recording ... a life-size sculpture of a ...
An OKC native, Gayla Peevey was just 10 years old when she recorded the 1953 yuletide ditty and then helped her hometown zoo get its own hippo.