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[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0369]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Is that "Stardust" in the eyes of Gayla Peevey? It could well be , because the little 10-year-old singing star from Ponca City is now under the wing of Hoagy Carmichael, who once wrote a song himself about the same subject."
Date: July 17, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0368]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CHRISTMAS WISHES CAME TRUE for these two pretty Oklahoma City girls. Ten-year-old Gayla Peevey, right, has had juke boxes spinning her request for a hippopotamus for Christmas."
Date: December 24, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0371]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "City TV Star Lands Network Role at 10 - Blond and impish Gayla Peevey, Oklahoma City's 10-year-old TV singer, headed for the big-time. Gayla , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Peevey, 2101 SW 27, and the little charmer who has caught everyone's heart on the Sooner Shindig over WKY-TV since March of this year."
Date: July 4, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0366]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gayla Peevey, 10-year-old singer, went without breakfast until 10:30 a. m. Thursday to welcome her "Hippopotamus for Christmas" to Oklahoma City--and then said she was too excited to eat."
Date: December 24, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0367]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gayla Peevey. the 1-year-old girl who's going to get a hippos for Christmas and give to the zoo for everyone to see, sang a new song for the first time Thursday night to help bring in the dimes for the animal."
Date: 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0376]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Zoo to Be Ready If It Gets Hippo for Christmas - "And, here's where the hippo will be put when we get it," Julian Frazier, above, zoo director, points out to Gayla Peevey, the young songstress whose Christmas wish, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," is spinning from records throughout the country."
Date: December 11, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0372]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "You've Got a Hippo For Christmas Now! You've done it! You've gone and bought a "Hippopotamus for Christmas," just like the song says. And it's going to be in Oklahoma City Thursday morning, in time for Christmas."
Date: December 23, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0378]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gayla Heads for Hollywood as Young Fan Gets Pictorial Autograph - Boarding the plane for her new television job in Hollywood, 10-year-old singing star Gayla Peevey poses for a youthful admirer."
Date: July 13, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0364]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gayla Gets a Scare at Hippo's Coming Out Party - Gayla Peevey, right young Oklahoma City songstress, went to Lincoln Park zoo with her cousin, Judy Wilson, Wheatland, Saturday for the coming out party of Mathilda, the Hippo, but they almost ran when Mathilda raised her head and started their way."
Date: April 17, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0373]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ANOTHER WISH COMES TRUE for Gayla Peevey, 10-year-old Oklahoma City singer, who wished for a hippopotamus for Christmas and received one and now wants to be the whisker on an Easter bunny's chin. She got a whole live bunny for Easter."
Date: April 4, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0380]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gayla Peevey, at left in front, receives a list of fellow students and teachers at Columbus school from Council President Jo Ann Noblett."
Date: December 14, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0379]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DELICACY FOR MATHILDA at her "coming out party" Saturday at Lincoln Park zoo is offered by 10-year-old Gayla Peevey, little Oklahoma city Songstress whose hit set off a drive for funds to buy the hippopotamus."
Date: April 17, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0374]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the entertainment attractions of the 1953 Greater Oklahoma Home show will be 12-year-old Gayla Peevey, the popular young Oklahoma singing star, who jumped to national fame with her top selling record, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas."
Date: March 24, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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