| "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" | |
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| Single by St Winifred's School Choir | |
| B-side | "Pinocchio" |
| Released | November 1980 |
| Genre | MOR |
| Length | 2:58 |
| Label | Music for Pleasure |
| Writer(s) | Gordon Lorenz |
| Certification | Gold |
"There's No One Quite Like Grandma" was a number one hit single by Stockport-based primary school choir St Winifred's School Choir from 27 December 1980 to 3 January 1981.[1] It was written by Gordon Lorenz.
The song was a Christmas number-one single in both the UK and Ireland, bumping John Lennon's last single, "(Just Like) Starting Over," to number two. After two weeks on the charts, a previous Lennon song, "Imagine," replaced it. Both Lennon songs were posthumous releases; Lennon had been killed three weeks prior.
More recently, the song was used within the one-off Channel 4 comedy by Peter Kay called Britain's Got the Pop Factor..., which had Sally Lindsay, who was in the original choir of the song, in a cameo role.
In October 2009 the song was re-recorded by 14 members of the original choir.[2] It was released in the UK in November 2009 as part of food company Innocent Drinks' "Big Knit" campaign, to raise money for Age Concern.
| Preceded by "(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon |
UK number one single 27 December 1980 - 3 January 1981 |
Succeeded by "Imagine" by John Lennon |
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