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 Popular WBCB-AM DJ Bill Melody Publishes New Book on Area Country Music

 Long time Country music followers will no doubt remember such well known Delaware Valley area performers as Freddy Walters, Les Seevers, Frankie “Pick” Marshall, Bill Haley, Dick Thomas, Billy Law, Mickey Starr, Tex Zario, Sally Starr, Lee Edmonds, Joann Brown, Rocky Payne, Jesse Rodgers, Charlie Forester, Lucky Steel,  Johnny Capp, Bill O’Neil, “Big” Bill Kormas, Johnny Keiffer, Loyd Lee and Thelma Porch, as well as numerous other country entertainers who picked and sang their way into everyone’s heart. And these same country music fans will surely remember the many watering holes where Country music enthusiasts gathered in large numbers in such well established Country music night spots as Hurley’s, Rack’s Hut, the Totem Ranch, Ollie’s Dude Ranch, the White Owl Inn, Whiskey Junction, Four Guy’s, Joe Melody’s, Ma Hinkson’s, Jimmy’s Place, the Frontier Room, Tunick’s, Masterson’s, the Skyway Grill, Boeing’s Hotel and countless other outposts where Country music reigned supreme. Well, you can look back on those good old days when it was cool to enjoy Country music with Bill Melody’s new book  “When Country Was Gold In The Delaware Valley©.” Bill Melody, a performer, accomplished musician, cartoonist, writer and host of  The Country Music Hall shows heard Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings on WBCB-AM 1490, and on the Internet at www.wbcb1490.com,  has written a straight forward account of the people and places that helped make Country music a popular art form in Philadelphia and its surrounding area for nearly three decades before the music finally faded from popularity and disappeared from everyone’s view. Simply put, the cowboys rode away one day never more to return. “When Country Was Gold In The Delaware Valley©” by Bill Melody is now available at limited locations in Lower Bucks County and at www.billmelody.com.