It was one of the most irritatingly memorable pop tunes of the 1970s – and could provide the key to making crisis-hit Lincoln City top of the pops.

But the re-release of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep as a charity single was also memorable for Lincolnshire Echo’s assistant content editor Wendy Inkster, pictured below.

Picture editor Stuart Wilde persuaded her to dress up to mark the occasion – and she found her photo featured across the top of the front page – with more of her unusual dance routine inside.

She said: “I was expecting it to be a big baggy mascot uniform where you wouldn’t even see my face – but it turned out like this so I made the best of it!”

“It was really embarrassing – people were hanging out of the windows at work to watch. Stuart was getting me to dance to the song and when I’m singing it looks more as though I’m screaming.”

Wendy’s opportunity knocked when Imps fan and professional singer Michael Courtney re-recorded Middle of the Road’s 1971 number one hit to release it as a double A-side single today.

And the Lincoln City Football Club fighting fund will get £2 from the sale of every £3 CD.

The Imps have just 11 days to raise £75,000 and try to come up with a rescue plan to save the club from calling in the receivers.

If more copies of the CD are sold, it is more likely to get national radio play.

“We need a chart position to get radio play. Then more and more people will get to know about Lincoln City’s plight,” Michael said.

See also today’s Bulletin Board.

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