There's No One Quite Like Grandma

"There's No One Quite Like Grandma" was a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart,[2]  by the Stockport-based primary school choir St Winifred's School Choir from 27 December 1980 to 3 January 1981.[3]  It was written by Gordon Lorenz.

The song was a Christmas number-one single in both the UK and Ireland, demoting John Lennon's last single, "(Just Like) Starting Over," to number two.[1] [2]  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. Another song that "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" prevented from reaching number-one was "Stop the Cavalry" by Jona Lewie, which has since become a Christmas favourite in the UK but finished at number three on the Christmas chart.

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. Furthermore, an extract of the song is always used in the "Granny Brainiac" segment in Series 3 of Sky One TV show Brainiac: Science Abuse.

In October 2009, the song was re-recorded by 14 members of the original choir.[4]  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.