[Dixielandjazz] Brooks Kerr

[Marek Boym]

Happens all the time, Joe.
People replied to my queries quoting me as the source of information
provided by others in reply to MY queries.  I am sure it's happened to
other listmates as well.
Anyway,very sad that, at his age, an obilt had to be published.
Cheers,
Marek

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:16, Joe Bebco <joe.syncopatedtimes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My own brush with Brooks Kerr was a bit more esoteric. His obituary
> was the first viral story we had on Syncopatedtimes.com. At the time
> the website was only a few weeks old and none of the content from the
> paper was on it. It was essentially just a place to put a paypal link
> to renew the print paper. I was already writing obituaries for print
> so I started putting them online as I wrote them. (It made for a
> pretty depressing website, nothing but obits!)
>
> When Brooks Kerr died a lot of the best information I found was from a
> New York Times profile in the 1970s. He had a great quote about
> himself, too good to pass up, so I used it and diligently cited the
> source. Online I even linked to the original NYT story in their
> archive.
>
> A week later the site starts getting all kinds of traffic out of
> nowhere. (At least for then, it was a quarter of what we get on a
> normal day now but I was floored by it.)
>
> The New York Times had cited The Syncopated Times in their obituary
> for Kerr. They attributed to us the quote that we had clearly
> attributed to them, and linked to us from their online story. They
> also made it seem like the quote was much more recent than the early
> 70s if not contemporary.
>
> We've had several more legitimate brushes with fame since, as after
> that they from time to time began correctly citing us as a source.
>
> Joe Bebco
> Associate Editor
> SyncopatedTimes.com (315) 507-5490
> A monthly newspaper covering Hot Jazz, Ragtime, and Swing.
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