It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

St. Winifred's School Choir

St Winifred's School Choir, from St Winifred's Roman Catholic Primary School in Stockport, United Kingdom, was a choir of children whose single in 1980 became that year's British Christmas number-one single. Entitled "There's No One Quite Like Grandma", it spent 2 weeks at number one, and 11 weeks in the UK Singles Chart in total.Dawn Ralph provided the lead vocal of the song composed by award-winning record producer Gordon Lorenz. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, Miss Terri Foley trained and conducted the choir, who gave the Music for Pleasure record label its only UK No. 1 single. The choir had been recording since 1972, when Miss Foley played the guitar with the choir and the conductor was Miss Olive Moore. more »