Grandma single bids for number one again after 29 years

Imagine it the old hit ‘There’s No One Quite Like Grandma’ beat the X-Factor single to number one this Christmas! That’s what Age Concern and Help the Aged are attempting to do as part of their Big Knit fundraising campaign.

The choir who originally sang the song in 1980 have been reformed to try and make it to number one again. Members of St Winifred’s School Choir are a little bit older and wiser now, but 14 of them have got back together to try and make it big again.

The song is a new version and, like all modern songs bidding for the top, is available on iTunes. Profits (42p from every sale) from the single will go straight to Age Concern and Help the Aged’s Big Knit campaign.

The annual campaign asks the public to hand-knit woollen hats, which are sold in Sainsbury’s and the supermarket chain gives 35p to Age Concern and Help the Aged for every hat sold.

It is hoped that the charity single will add £250,000 to the money raised from hat sales, thereby boosting healthy eating and living project for older people over the winter.

Rcord producer Pete Waterman said: “It would also be great if it gave my old mate Simon Cowell’s X-Factor single a run for its money in the Christmas chart stakes.”

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