Today’s the day that I promised to have the most annoying Christmas song ever. Some may have thought that the most annoying Christmas song would be “Grandma Got run Over by a Reindeer” that’s just the second most annoying Christmas song. The Winner of the most annoying Christmas song is ” I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas”. I first heard this song a couple of years ago, then last year this song was on a commercial what they were selling I really don’t remember, but I can’t believe that someone thought this song could sell anything. This peaked at #24 on the Billboard magazine pop chart of December of 1953. Besides this song being annoying and this girl who thinks she’s so cute but she isn’t. There is something that is not, let’s say truthful, the little girl says that her mom told The hippopotamus would eat her but her teacher says that hippopotamus are vegetarians, but if you goggle hippopotamus killing people, you’ll read about how hippopotamus kill around 3,000 people a year. I could be wrong, but I think this is why Hippopotamus do not make very good pets. I’m sorry if I disappointed you if you was planning on giving on of your kids or grandkids a hippo for Christmas. So if you have never heard this song now you can hear the most annoying Christmas song of all time.
This is the video is from the Ed Sullivan show in October of 1953. I guess this song was popular for a while in the early 50’s but it didn’t stand the test of time like Rudolf and Frosty. The girl who sang this song is from Oklahoma City. When the song first came on the radio a Oklahoma DJ started a fundraiser to give this girl a real hippopotamus. The fundraiser worked so well that they raised enough money to buy a real hippopotamus. I guess in the early 50’s they would have bought it at Hippo-Mart. She donated the hippo to the Oklahoma City Zoo where the hippo lived for fifty years and as far as I can tell the hippo didn’t kill anyone at the zoo.