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JT: Yeah, the Paramount files is what you're talking about. Yes, mostly what we use in the
calendars comes from that collection of Paramount advertising material. Now I have bought
smaller collections with other advertising material from other companies. I've bought other
photographs of singers that weren't in the Paramount collection and so I've supplemented it, but
yes, the majority of what we use in the calendars comes from that collection. The records mostly
come from my collection that we use on the calendar stuff. Now, I do borrow some occasionally

from other collectors if I have a really great ad for a record, but I don't have the record myself, or
my copy is not that great. I will borrow it and use it from somebody else's collection, so you get
the best sound on the one we put out on the CD
with the calendar.

BiTS: There's a fabulous album, I'm sure you've
seen it, "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of",

which has a picture by Robert Crumb on it of a
collector.

JT: I'm actually the one that came up with the
name for that set. That was put out by Richard
Nevins at Yazoo and when he was putting it
together, I contributed some records to that

collection. He borrowed some records from me to
put on that collection on the CDs.

BiTS: The Crumb picture shows a collector who
is sweating as he's opening a package. Maybe
people do sweat as they open packages, but I
gather you went to South Carolina to get the

Tommy Johnson. I guess that must be to avoid the
sweating.

JT: Yes, I'll finish up with "The Stuff That Dreams
Are Made Of" for a second and then I'll address
that. When Richard Nevins was putting that
collection together, I loaned him some records to go on it. A lot of them came from his own

collection, but I loaned him some and we were just talking one day and he says I'm trying to figure
out what to call this set and I said, well, I have a suggestion for you, why don't you think about the
movie the Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart and call it "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"
because those records are kind of like chasing the Maltese Falcon. And he thought that was a great
title, so he used it for the title of the set. As far as getting rare records through the mail and all

that, yes. If there is something super-duper rare, like the Tommy Johnson or something, really up
in that kind of price range and stratosphere, I will most likely make a trip to pick it up in person. I
don't hate the US mail, but it's very nerve-wracking to trust the US mail with something that rare
and that irreplaceable where just dropping the box wrong could crack it or break it and I do pack
things very well and we ship 78s all over the world and we don't have much problem, but when
you come on something that's really, either a one of a kind, or super, super expensive record, I'd
prefer to pick it up in person.

BiTS: Yes, well, I can't say I blame you, to be honest with you.