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Tony Gore Signs with Eddie Crook Company
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Written: 10/25/2004 
Author: SGN
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(Goodlettsville, TN) – Eddie Crook and Dave Wilcox of the Eddie Crook Company are pleased to announce that Tony Gore has signed an exclusive agreement with the company. Tony has agreed to write the liner notes on the upcoming Wilburns project.
http://www.eddiecrook.com
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LAME. LAME. LAME. Proof positive that hype will always let you down. BAD FORM. BOOOOOO
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This is suppose to be exciting news? Sounds more like a lame and cheesy way to get something noticed. I've seen some lame ways to get a press release, but this one takes the cake. Makes ya wonder now about the S.P.A.M. hype. My thought could be: If you buy "our products" we will give you a can of spam absolutely free, only one can per family or household please...lol. Another unsuccessful attempt to get noticed....way to go boys!
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Lame?, I dont think so... PEOPLE THIS IS MARKETING. An attemp to "get noticed" is what publicity is all about. Now, whether you agree with the method or not... IT WORKED! Lets be honest, a great deal of southern gospel music is entertainment, and entertainment is almost 100% hype. Listen to the programing on your local SG gospel station, and we should all agree that this business is as much about hype as it is talent (in some cases more so). Consider this, why do some of your favorite groups shout on the same song, at the same time, night after night... its hype. Why does your favorite singer "feel lead" to tell the same stories in the same part of the service night after night... its hype. Why do our favorite groups wear the nicest clothes, have the most elaborate set-ups, ride the most expensive buses, and promote their material in the "newest and most state of the art" manners... HYPE, HYPE, HYPE (and we EAT IT UP). Lets face it, most everything we do is hype. Our jobs (proclaiming our company to be the best), our hobbies (who has the most chrome on their bike), our childrens activities (those magnetic stickers and bumper stickers with your childs sporting number on them). Hype creates excitement,excitement draws attention and attention produces those little green bills that we all need (and please dont give me that "the love of money is the root" speach). In closing lets remind ourselves that as much as we would like to deny it... THIS IS A BUSINESS and publicity (hype) is just one of the tools that must be untilized to promote the product of SG music.
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This is total bunk! You guys are like little kids, using any little bit of so-called "news" to get attention lately. This sort of stunt is about half of what's wrong with the SG music business today. I guess when you produce on the cheap, "cookie-cutter" projects until you drive away most of your name artists and lose credibility with radio and the industry you'll do anything to try and rebound. I guess if you can't get Tony Gore as an artist this is the next best thing.
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Well I thought it was funny anyway. LOL
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Come on folks......think about it. It's not hype, it's not marketing.....it's funny! Sometimes we we get so caught up in our own press releases we forget to have a little fun! Thanks Dave and Eddie, we get it (or some of us do)!
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The Eddie Crook COmpany is quite possible the single largest contributor to SG music today. Lets all remember the 80s and early 90s when Dave Wilcox and Eddie Crook gave us... The McKameys, The Bishops, The Perrys, The Perrys Sisters, The Wilburns, The Isaacs, The Mid South Boys, The "reformed" Dixie Melody Boys, The Fox Brothers, Carrol Roberson, Cedar Ridge, and on and on and on. These guys are GREAT at spotting and developing talent (in their own way). I would not be the SG fan I am today with the Eddie Crook Company. Call them cookie cutter if you will, but to anyone who can remember GOD ON THE MOUNTAIN, LAZARUS COME FORTH, I REMEMBER THE DAY, GODS PROMISED LAND, CARRY ON, THATS MY CHILD, FAMILY CHAIN, RESSURECTION MORN... (wow what a resume).
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Lets just face it.. the "ECC" was on thier way Down. and this is just a way to try to make them look better.. but they will never get the recognition they need with the type of artist they have... "NOW dont get me wrong there are 4 artist on his roster that really dont need to be there b\c they are better than most PRO singers today." but if he really wants his name to get out there get rid of the "MOM AND POP GROUPS". and that is just my opinion.. b\c the ECC are defnantly behind the times.. they have alot of Catching up to do. with Daywind, Spring hill and Horizon records.
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Who really Cares...??
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Apparently everyone here cares or they wouldn't take the time or the effort to comment, including you, JTR.
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