Welcome to the Vinyl Single Covers Archive.
For the seasoned music lovers of you out there, this website will serve as a vehicle to transport you back in time. Back to the days when there was a certain magical feeling about holding a vinyl single in your hands, which was often intensified by interesting or unusual artwork on the sleeve. Somehow, CD covers don't seem to have the same feel as those 7x7 inch packets which used to adorn vinyl singles - maybe due to the smaller format, who knows?
The main aim of this website is to re-live the nostalgia invoked by those miniature works of art that adorned the covers of our chart music form the late 50's up to the early 90's. These pages explore the time when vinyl was king - when these little black discs were placed on the record deck, and played over and over again.
Sleeve design is the main criteria for entries stored here, rather than the merits of the artist or song. Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, cringe at them, or just would rather forget that you are old enough to remember them, a growing number can be found here! These are sorted loosely into Six main categories:

Artistic: Anything where the designer has used pen, paintbrush or collage etc.
Glossy: Sleeves where most of the content is photographic, be it the artist or whatever.
Basic: Not much to see yet, and pretty boring stuff here, but some will really take you back a long way!
Comic: Either the humour of the artist, song or cover will place it here.
Novelty: Mainly picture discs or unusual labels here.
Oldies: Some rare gems here - mostly pre 1970.

   Some artists now have chronological cover filmstrips.

  Newly added covers now have five or ten second audio clips to help recollect the song! All audio clips have been taken directly from the vinyl featured.