Ron. Yes, they've been converted to CD and the best set is the one that Ward Marston did which have superb liner notes by Larry Holdridge with the texts as well. The liner notes are on the website as well. _Marston Records - In Their Own Voices_ (http://www.marstonrecords.com/voices/voices_tracks.htm) Highly recommended (as are all of Ward's CDs) Steve Ramm In a message dated 4/12/2007 12:56:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, RCowen at sciserv.org writes: Hi, this is Ron Cowen, a phoho collector and writer, who plans to write an article on the first use of records in 1908 among the two presidential candidates. First, although I know the records have been converted to CD, can someone authoratatively tell me whether they can legally be posted at the web site of a major magazine without any copywright issue? (I know songsheets lose their original copywright after 75 years but didn't know if this appplied to records or not.) Second, aside from what the Edison monthly told about the records, if any one has any written accounts describing the making of the records, their impact on the campaign, how they were viewed by the public and the meidia, I'd be grateful. How did Columbia records get into the act--I saw there was one record of Bryan made for Columbia that was recently on ebay. Thanks, Ron Cowen you contact me at rcowen at sciserv.org ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.