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Death Valley Days

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Death Valley Days

5 old time radio show recordings
(total playtime 1 hours, 2836 min)
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Western Adventure (1930-1951)

Death Valley Days"As the early-morning bugle-call of covered wagon trains fades away among the echoes, another true Death Valley days story is presented for your entertainment by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, producers of that famous family of products – 20 Mule Team Borax, 20 Mule Team Borax Soap Chips and Boraxo."

One of the most respected shows of early radio, Death Valley Days was well written and endured throughout the decades. Ruth Cornwall Woodman was asked to write the show in 1930. Though she knew nothing of the desert and its people, New York Vassar graduate Ruth undertook the project with enthusiasm. When the show began in 1930, many of the areas she was writing about were Borax Chipsstill quite rough in nature, with many roads but mostly mere trails.

Each year Ruth would spend several months traveling through the desert to explore ghost towns, saloons, backpacking just outside Death Valley, and interviewing old timers. She would talk to gas station men, bartenders, and small town newspapermen. She did her research well, pouring over old newspapers and visiting old west museums, scouring the west for anything that would inspire a good story. The result of all this hard work was rewarding - a highly successful show that lasted over two decades, and later became a television show with Ronald Regan as the host. Death Valley Days presents stories of the old west, with realism and drama virtually unmatched by other westerns of the day.

Death Valley Days

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    I remember this show in its television incarnation, hosted by Stanley Andrews as "The Old Ranger." Andrews was succeeded by Ronald Reagan, who hosted it until sometime in 1966, when he ran for Governor of California. Reagan was succeeded by Robert Taylor, who was later succeeded by Dale Robertson.

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    It is unforgivable to have a successful radio show like Death Valley Days to go unrecorded, what were they thinking? whoever made this decision it was surely a bad one.

    Paul W. Pilkerton

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  • MP3 CDs are delivered by mail. These archival quality MP3 CDs are playable in your computer and many MP3 player devices.



    5 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00. Total playtime 1 hours, 2836 min
    5 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00
    total playtime 1 hours, 2836 min
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    1. 5 shows – total playtime 1 hours, 47 minutes
    2. Death Valley Days 360827 305 Sam Bass.mp3
    3. Death Valley Days 380617 398 Burro That Had No Name.mp3
    4. Death Valley Days 390616 450 Shoo Fly.mp3
    5. Death Valley Days Xxxxxx Dear Teacher.mp3
    6. Bugle Themejosef Bonimeu.s. Borax, Inc (0.32).mp3
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    5 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00. Total playtime 1 hours, 2836 min
    5 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00
    37 MB – total playtime 1 hours, 47 min
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    1. 5 shows – 37 MB – total playtime 1 hours, 47 minutes
    2. Death Valley Days 360827 305 Sam Bass.mp3
    3. Death Valley Days 380617 398 Burro That Had No Name.mp3
    4. Death Valley Days 390616 450 Shoo Fly.mp3
    5. Death Valley Days Xxxxxx Dear Teacher.mp3
    6. Bugle Themejosef Bonimeu.s. Borax, Inc (0.32).mp3
  • Standard Audio CDs are delivered by mail on archival quality media with up to 60 minutes on each CD and play in all CD players



    5 recordings on 2 Audio CDs. Total playtime 1 hours, 47 min
    5 recordings on 2 Audio CDs
    total playtime 1 hours, 47 min

    Death Valley Days Disc A001

    1. Death Valley Days Xxxxxx Dear Teacher
    2. Bugle Themejosef Bonimeu.s. Borax, Inc (0.32)
    3. Death Valley Days 360827 305 Sam Bass

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    Death Valley Days Disc A002

    1. Death Valley Days 380617 398 Burro That Had No Name
    2. Death Valley Days 390616 450 Shoo Fly

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