 The group spent three years as the staff band for radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, performing five hour-long shows each week.In 1938 the band went to New York City and performed on radio station WOR and at various venues such as the famous nightclub called the Village Barn.It should be also noted that in 1932 there was another "Riders of the Purple Sage" for approximately two years on the West Coast in the L.A. area formed by Jack Dalton.