In article <23ccaa1189ae45be2c54032be647b9ac@jiglu-wc>, (Address removed) (Simon Crees) wrote:

genres of music types also have their own dedicated chart.I think
its a great shame that the single is no longer a physical medium.
I, and i suspect most of the rest of you Anoraks have a collection
of old singles and its as much the remembering what the record
actually looks like and what record label its on that sticks in my
memory as the actual song thats on it. Bygon days !

You wouldn't suggest that if you had to lug thousands of the damn things into Halls and Working Mens Clubs when you started as a DJ. 12" singles made it even worse.
As for the collection, I gave up as soon as I could replace them with CDs. A simply flight-case, still heavy but not as bad as snap,crackle and stuck needle vinyl, with thousands of tracks to entertain people – much better.
I do agree that remembering what a vinyl sleeve or even picture disk looked like was a real plus point when you needed to find a single quickly. BUT, have you ever tried to get the needle on the tractor shaped single Combine Harvester in a hurry – yeah I know who would want to, but it's NOT EASY!!!!!!! :-)

So rather than bygone days, I hoped I could have said be gone days, but watching telly the other morning it seems anoraks are taking over as there is some crazy new interest in the 7" single – gawd, they'll be wanting radio stations on ships next.

As it goes the MD of a Slovak station came to see me today to pick up some production material and he's quite into UK radio history. We laughed about the fact that today we can put all the material he needed on one CD whereas a few years ago we would have been lugging tapes around and if they got cold it was a disaster :-)

So no, I'll stick with me modern day stuff Guv and if you want I'll play it through a valve Amp if it makes you happy :-) But, for me a few nice flights cases, no jewel cases either just sleeves, and I'm a happy camper.

Eric