The opening track from their phenomenal album, The Mollusk, is basically a reworking of Peevey’s “Are My Ears On Straight?” from the other side of the “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” single. Some of them continue to inspire other musicians, including Tedium favorite Ween. “My Little Marine” came close, hitting #84 on the charts. She recorded several other songs, but none of them ever reached the high level of success that “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” did. That didn’t mean she wouldn’t continue to make recordings or perform. She became so popular in Oklahoma that her family moved to California-ostensibly to get away from show business. Peevey performed the song on The Ed Sullivan Show a few months before its release, where it was a big hit with Sullivan’s audience. Per an interview with Tulsa Films, he heard it and said, “keep it, keep it! I like it!” She added the adorable extended “s” sounds to the part of the song where she sings about not wanting any crocodiles or a rhinoceros. I remember it very well.ĭuring the recording of the song, she took some creative liberties with the lyrics. I was only ten, so he knew I was a kid and it needed to be fun. He was a character, he had a goatee and he’d jump around. Some of you that are a little older might remember Mitch Miller. Peevey recounted the experience in a 2020 interview with KUSI News: Mitch Miller-old “sing-along with Mitch” himself-produced the song. The very first song Columbia brought to her was “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” When Columbia Records noticed her, they reached out to offer her a recording deal. Eventually, she went to California to perform on Hoagy Carmichael’s Hollywood Review.
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She was a professional singer at the age of eight, performing on television and in-person throughout Oklahoma City. Born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK, Peevey had a talent for singing and entertaining. The cute, silly tune was performed by then ten-year old singer Gayla Peevey in 1953. This year, for some strange reason, the song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero)” has been ringing through my head for the past few weeks.īut what’s the story behind it? And why has it endured for so long? We wanted to find out. Revisiting and diving into novelty songs is sort of a tradition here at Tedium. But the traditions and pop cultures surrounding holidays are often a subject of great fascination. But for me, holidays really aren’t my thing. I love that other folks get to drive enjoyment from it and the meaning behind it provides something valuable to them. It wasn’t a tradition in my house, nor was there a strong emphasis on it over the years. I also never really enjoyed celebrating holidays. The truth is I don’t like traditional Christmas songs or holiday music very much. And while parodies can be loads of fun, there’s something to be said about the enduring legacy and abstract acceptance of some original Christmas novelty songs. “Jingle Bells” shares something remarkable with another insufferable Christmas tune, “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” in that it’s not only ripe for parody and silly performances, but has had several notable ones. If anyone remembers the first Christmas episode of The Simpsons-you know, the one where Homer becomes a shopping mall Santa after not getting his Christmas bonus-Bart famously sings his own rendition of the tune at the start of the episode. Remember when you were a kid and you got in trouble during a band recital for singing “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” during the holiday chorus? No, just me? Last year, YouTube extraordinaire Tom Scott dissected the origins of that holiday parody tune last year to unexpected-and hilarious-effect. So pour yourself a glass of eggnog, gather around the holiday ornamentation of your choice, and crank up the volume as we welcome you, dear readers, to the Tedium Christmas Novelty Song Spectacular. With 2021 wrapping up as yet another unspeakable nightmare, we thought it might be a good time to revisit one of our favorite topics: Christmas novelty songs. The interdisciplinary yuletide extravaganza was fun, but was conspicuously absent in 2020 (we talked about The Gingerbread Man instead). Ernie, Andrew, and I all contributed four items apiece to create a wonderful holiday project of which we’re all quite proud. In 2019, we embarked on a somewhat ambitious project: The Twelve Things of Tedium. Today in Tedium: It’s that time of year again, folks! As the weather changes and the calendar pages start falling off rapidly, another holiday season is upon us. Maybe after you listen, you’ll feel the same way. Hey all, Ernie here with the master of novelty music himself, David Buck, who brings us an analysis of the kind of music he wants under his Christmas tree this year.
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