he wanted to be an irish caruso, as he once said.particular recording i want to play for you is called "when you and i were young, maggie", by john mccormick. again, this is a victrola nine. ♪ ♪ >> you can close the doors to modi modify the sound for the horn here, and also you can close the lid and have the same effect. and i'll re-open the lid, re-open my doors, and you have, of course, extra volume again. ♪ >> and it was also very important to johnson to bring this new available machine to the masses. he really was very much wanting to make sure that music was, was heard by anybody who would like to hear it. so in the ensuing years, he did manufacture machines that were talking machines that were very well priced, so to speak, meaning most people could afford them. >> the machine i'd like to show you now, now that we've seen the other two, was referred to at credenza, and it was produced between 1925 and 1928. and what makes this machine so very special was the fact that in 1925, the victor company had a big promotion, referred to

very, very well-known for the irish songs and also he had a beautiful tenor voice. he used carusos model. when you and i were young, maggie by john mcformic. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and also i can close the lid to have the same effect. reopen the lid and my doors and you have extra volume again. it was also very important to bring this new available machine to the masses. he really was very much wanting to make sure that the music was heard by anybody who would like to hear it. in the years, he did manufacture talking machines that were very well priced. most people could afford them. >> the machine i would like to show you now now that we have seen the other too was the cre denza. what make this is machine so very special was the fact that in 1925, the company had a big promotion referred to as victor day. on that day, customers were invited to go to the local stores and by the very first orthophonic machine and also records, these were records that were recorded elect rickally by the use of a microphone where earlier records were referred to as acoustic and they were recorded inside of a horn.