Yeah weird! I have that story, but not as a Golden Melody Book. I'd bid on it ... but you want it ... and the nice part of me (I do have a nice part for realz) won't let me start a bid war. lol
LOL...I just opened mine for the first time in a few years and it VERY feebly tried to play the song but it just came out as slow, strange tones...lol! Guess 25 years is the life-span of such things. It worked the last time I tried it! But no, there's no way to change the batteries...at least not without ripping up the book