There 's No one Quite Like Grandma - Wikipedia There 's No one Quite Like Grandma `` There 's No One Quite Like Grandma '' Single by St Winifred 's School Choir B - side `` Pinocchio '' Released November 1980 Genre MOR Length 2 : 58 Label Music for Pleasure Songwriter ( s ) Gordon Lorenz Producer ( s ) Peter Tattersall `` There 's No One Quite Like Grandma '' was a number - one hit in the UK Singles Chart, by the Stockport - based primary school choir St Winifred 's School Choir from 27 December 1980 to 3 January 1981. It was written by Gordon Lorenz. The song was a 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. After two weeks at number one, a previous Lennon song, `` Imagine, '' replaced it. This was a posthumous release as 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. 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. References ^ Jump up to : Rice, Jo ( 1982 ). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits ( 1st ed. ). Enfield, Middlesex : Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 210. ISBN 0 - 85112 - 250 - 7. ^ Jump up to : Roberts, David ( 2006 ). British Hit Singles & Albums ( 19th ed. ). London : Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 388 -- 9. ISBN 1 - 904994 - 10 - 5. Jump up ^ `` Cult - I Love 1980 - Music ''. BBC. Retrieved 2008 - 05 - 11. Jump up ^ `` Original ' Grandma ' choir re-form ''. BBC. 2009 - 10 - 12. Retrieved 2010 - 05 - 25. Jump up ^ `` 50 Singles '' ( PDF ). RPM. Library and Archives Canada. 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 UK Christmas number - one singles in the 1980s `` There 's No One Quite Like Grandma '' ( St Winifred 's School Choir, 1980 ) `` Do n't You Want Me '' ( The Human League, 1981 ) `` Save Your Love '' ( Renée and Renato, 1982 ) `` Only You '' ( The Flying Pickets, 1983 ) `` Do They Know It 's Christmas ? '' ( Band Aid, 1984 ) `` Merry Christmas Everyone '' ( Shakin ' Stevens, 1985 ) `` Reet Petite '' ( Jackie Wilson, 1986 ) `` Always on My Mind '' ( Pet Shop Boys, 1987 ) `` Mistletoe and Wine '' ( Cliff Richard, 1988 ) `` Do They Know It 's Christmas ? '' ( Band Aid II, 1989 ) Complete list 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s This 1980s pop song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=There%27s_No_One_Quite_Like_Grandma&oldid=823550457 '' Categories : Christmas number - one singles in the United Kingdom 1980 singles Christmas songs UK Singles Chart number - one singles 1980 songs Songs about women Songs about old age 1980s pop song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 1 February 2018, at 22 : 56. About Wikipedia

Question: who sang there no one quite like grandma
Answer: St Winifred's School Choir