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Thank you, James, for this helpful information. When I did a Google search after Steve's original announcement of this set, I didn't find anything like this. Unfortunately, if what the folks posting here… http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=9672.0 … say is accurate, the recordings on the USB drive are MP3s. One of those folks also provided a PDF of the track listing, and aside from two Watts & Wilson B-sides, I don't see much here I do not already have on LP and CD. Certainly, no recordings from before Paramount launched their 12000 catalog series. So I will have to keep waiting to hear "Up! De Valera." :-) What the mastering company has to say about this project is here: http://www.airshowmastering.com/restoring-the-rise-and-fall-of-paramount-records-2/ Apparently, Christopher King did the original transfers from 78 RPM discs, but that begs the question of whether all the source material was in fact drawn from 78 RPM discs. I adore Watts & Wilson, but I will pass! Best wishes, Mark