European Country Music Association general level, covering all of Europe. The objectives of the organization are to help promote country music in this continent and help as much as it can the value of the European artists and record labels; also to provide a proof of real airplay to the country music industry through its weekly national and pan-European charts. Its national Top-20 covers weekly Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic, Swizertland, Malta, Poland and Austria. ECMA membership is composed of those persons or organizations that are involved in country music throughout the world, having members in
Roger Osborne (writer) and '60s. "Ohio Magazine" featured Osborne's writings in a 12-page article in its September 1997 issue. Osborne has been published in numerous local, regional and national periodicals throughout the country, and portions of "The Mountains Wept" were used in a Japanese television documentary. Osborne is a native of Wharton, West Virginia, a coal mine community located in the southern part of the state. Roger Osborne was born July 3, 1936, in Wharton, West Virginia. He died May 30, 2007, at 5:17 a.m. in Hospice of Dayton. He is buried in Byron Cemetery, Fairborn, Ohio. Roger Osborne (writer) Roger Solomon Osborne