Sonny Rollins Alfie LP - Fat Orange-and-Black impulse! Spine?

[Teasing the Korean]

I have misfiled my Sonny Rollins Alfie LP.

I assume that this has a fat orange-and-black impulse! spine, correct?

Edited June 25, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[JSngry]

Mine isn't, no. White top, black bottom. My original is an OG mono picked out of a random cutout bin, can. 1973. Then for some reason I got a stereo reissue a few years ago, probably because the original was kind of a crap pressing. But the spine on it was the same way 

[Teasing the Korean]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Mine isn't, no. White top, black bottom. My original is an OG mono picked out of a random cutout bin, can. 1973. Then for some reason I got a stereo reissue a few years ago, probably because the original was kind of a crap pressing. But the spine on it was the same way 

Thanks.  Hopefully it will turn up.

My Jackie and Roy LPs accidentally were filed with Hugo Montenegro.  I eventually found them. 

[JSngry]

Did Hugo surrender Jackie willingly? 

[Teasing the Korean]

45 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Did Hugo surrender Jackie willingly? 

He enjoyed their time together, but he knew their separation was inevitable, because I would eventually see those fat CTI spines in the wrong place.

[JSngry]

DynaFlex was its own punishment. 

[Teasing the Korean]

31 minutes ago, JSngry said:

DynaFlex was its own punishment. 

Yeah.  

[Teasing the Korean]

Now I wonder if I have a false memory of owning this album.  I have the CD.  Could I be mixing up Alfie with Mal Waldron's Sweet Love Bitter, also in the jazz soundtracks section, and also with a fat impulse! spine?  But I could have sworn I have Alfie on LP.  The mystery deepens...

[clifford_thornton]

I have a mono with the standard orange and black spine.

[JSngry]

Oh? 

How did that happen? Either way. 

[Teasing the Korean]

2 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

I have a mono with the standard orange and black spine.

Good to know!  My copy, or the copy I possibly imagined I own, is mono.

[JSngry]

ok, mine is also mono, a pressing with that original impulse label, and it's always had the white. It's also got black running up just a little less than 2/3 of the spine, for whatever that's worth. You can see the word STEREO tucked under the inside left liner paper.

[clifford_thornton]

printing defect, perhaps?

or maybe a record club edition?

[JSngry]

ok, but whatever "modern reissue" I have has the white, not the orange.

when did impulse! switch to the A/AS system for mono/stereo? I've got plenty of stereo impulse! records that have the front slick that can be used as either stereo or mono. They all have the A-xx number on the front/back.

I doubt my Alfie is a record club edition, though. No fine print, and it came out of a cutout bin in a Gibson's Discount Center.