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Thomas Edison said, “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “ Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

I like what Josh Billings had to say, Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”

Thomas Jefferson said, “ I can never fear that things will go wrong where common sense has fair play.”

The list of wisdom about common sense could fill a book. Great men and women place much emphasis on common sense, which is simply seeing things as they are. You don’t need to go college to have common sense.

Since common sense is a vital ingredient to success, I’d like to offer my readers a Southern Gospel Music Common Sense Quiz to evaluate our industry. There are 10 questions with a simple “yes” or “no” answer. Take the test and then post the score you come up with to see if our industry has what it takes to succeed.

SOUTHERN GOSPEL MUSIC COMMON SENSE QUIZ

IS IT COMMON SENSE TO have less than 50 “professional” artists in our entire industry yet have charts with 80 positions? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE TO have songs climb to high positions on the charts yet having no sales at retail stores? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE TO ignore the fact that if a song is creating much action on the charts and no one is going to the store to buy it, then the charts are not reflecting the true popularity of the song? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE to have radio stations that play whatever they want, with little or no regard to what is being played at other stations? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE to keep the radio reports a secret, constantly creating suspicion that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE to believe that any radio promoter (tracker) can make calls to all the radio stations for 30 or 40 different artists and get songs charted without some help from Superman? ___ YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE to have custom recording companies acting like big shots, playing the role, yet they can’t service the retail market because their recordings are not good enough for any retail store to sell even one CD? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE that these same record companies that consistently make recordings that are not fit for retail sales are given stature within our industry and are treated as legitimate record companies? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE to have our artists (mostly newbies) pay for all these shenanigans while our fearless leaders look the other way? ___YES ___NO

IS IT COMMON SENSE to pretend that none of this is happening while most of us can identify by name all the guilty parties? ___YES ___NO

SCORE:

Count every “NO” answer. If you have any “YES” answers, put your glasses on, go back and re-read the questions and re-consider your answers, checking “NO” where you checked “YES.”

Truth is, every answer is a “NO” answer, meaning that there seems to be NO common sense in much of Southern Gospel Music.

It seems to me that nobody cares. Southern Gospel Music is, to me, the greatest music on earth. We have some professional artists who could out sing any artist in any genre. Yet, we continue to allow this cancer of mediocrity to exist within our ranks.

Oh for some leaders with courage, conviction and common sense.

I close with a quote by Jim Rohn.

“Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices.”

As always, I welcome your comments,

God Bless You.

Nick Bruno
http://www.nickbruno.com

Reader Comments

This will be short and to the point. Until they money flow stops to the cattle recording money takers, these situations won't change. As long as there are family's who believe their little son, daughter or church group, should be on the main stage at the NQC. The money flow will feed the vultures who will take the loot and laugh all the way to the bank.

[If your best is not good enough, you probably need to change your work ethic or vocation. 

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