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| name       = There's No One Quite Like Grandma
| cover      = No-one quite like Grandma.jpg
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| type       = single
| artist     = [[St Winifred's School Choir]]
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| B-side     = Pinocchio
| released   = November 1980
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| genre      = [[Middle of the road (music)|MOR]]
| length     = 2:58
| label      = [[Music for Pleasure (record label)|Music for Pleasure]]<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/>
| writer     = [[Gordon Lorenz]]<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/>
| producer   = Peter Tattersall<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/>
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"'''There's No One Quite Like Grandma'''" is a song by the [[Stockport]]-based [[primary school]] choir [[St Winifred's School Choir]], released as a single in November 1980. It was [[record chart|number-one]] on the [[UK Singles Chart]]<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006
| title= [[British Hit Singles & Albums]]| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| pages= 388–9}}</ref> from 21 December 1980 to 3 January 1981.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1980/music1.shtml |title=Cult - I Love 1980 - Music |publisher=[[BBC]] |accessdate=2008-05-11 }}</ref> The song was written by [[Gordon Lorenz]], recorded at [[10cc]]'s [[Strawberry Studios]] in Stockport and features [[Rick Wakeman]] on keyboards.
The song was the 1980 Christmas number-one single in both the UK and Ireland. In the UK, it demoted [[John Lennon]]'s last single, "[[(Just Like) Starting Over]]", to number two.<ref name="500 Number One Hits">{{cite book| first= Jo| last= Rice| year= 1982| title= The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits| edition= 1st| publisher= Guinness Superlatives Ltd | location= Enfield, Middlesex| page= 210
| isbn= 0-85112-250-7}}</ref><ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> After two weeks at number one, a previous Lennon song, "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]", replaced it. This was a posthumous release as [[Death of John Lennon|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 that 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 ''[[Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice|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 the [[Sky One]] TV show ''[[Brainiac: Science Abuse]]''.
In October 2009, the song was re-recorded by 14 members of the original choir.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8302097.stm |title=Original 'Grandma' choir re-form |publisher=[[BBC]] | date=2009-10-12 | accessdate=2010-05-25}}</ref> 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]].
The song was covered by Leilah and Jeordie (daughters of [[Melanie Safka]]) in 1981, and this version charted on the Canadian singles chart at No. 27 in January 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.0444.pdf |title=50 Singles |work=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] |publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]] }}</ref>
==References==
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{{UK Christmas number ones in the 1980s|song}}
[[Category:1980 songs]]
[[Category:1980 singles]]
[[Category:UK singles chart number-one singles]]
[[Category:Songs about old age]]
[[Category:Christmas number-one singles in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Music for Pleasure (record label) singles]]
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