Claire and Friends were an English music group, consisting of schoolgirl Claire Usher and her friends, from St Winifred's Roman Catholic Primary School in Stockport.
The song was intended as a kind of follow-up to the number one hit "There's No One Quite Like Grandma",[2] which the St Winifred's School Choir recorded at the start of the 1980s.
[4][5] The demo was submitted to a talent-spotting feature on the BBC children's television programme Saturday Superstore, where it beat a thousand other entries.
However in January 1987, future Music Week chart analyst Alan Jones[7] reported in his Record Mirror column that only 0.2% of the sales of "It's 'Orrible Being in Love" were on 12-inch, the lowest proportion of any hit single available on the format in 1986.
Entitled Super Claire, this release also was not a commercial success, missing the UK top 100 albums chart.