Artist, writer, musician, disc jockey and producer Bill Melody is best known for his 27 years as a featured entertainment writer, columnist, dining and show reviewer for Calkins Newspapers, which included the Bucks County Courier Times, Burlington County Times (N.J.), and the Doylestown Intelligencer covering hundreds of venues including concerts, Atlantic City and interviewing countless musicians, entertainers and celebrities, both local and national.


Bill Melody with Cissie Lynn and Toby Appleyard

     He's also well known in country music circles having produced shows featuring Grand Ole Opry stars for more than ten years for the Shriners organization in South Jersey. He served as Public Relations director for the Shriners for ten years promoting the Shriners organization and its hospitals and burn centers. 


Bill Melody with Grand Ole Opry Star Jim McReynolds

Melody has worked at a number of area radio stations including the former WJJZ-AM, (Mount Holly, NJ.), WNAR-AM (Norristown, PA), WPHT-AM (Philadelphia, PA) and his highly popular "Country Music Hall" shows can be heard every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 6 p.m. and Sunday mornings from 5 to 10 a.m. on WBCB-AM 1490 broadcasting from Levittown-Fairless Hills, PA. And on the Internet at www.wbcb1490.com. Bill Melody is a member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia (Pa.), The Circle Club and the Country Music Association (CMA) in Nashville, TN.


Bill Melody (center) with Grand Ole Opry Stars
Charley Walker and Melba Montgomery