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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Not many people get an obilt.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com">Marek Boym</a><br><b>Sent: </b>16 June 2020 20:02<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:stevevoce84@gmail.com">Steve Voce</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com">Dixieland Jazz Mailing List</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Dixielandjazz] Brooks Kerr</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Happens all the time, Joe.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anyway,very sad that, at his age, an obilt had to be published.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Marek</p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:16, Joe Bebco <<a href="mailto:joe.syncopatedtimes@gmail.com">joe.syncopatedtimes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>My own brush with Brooks Kerr was a bit more esoteric. His obituary<br>was the first viral story we had on Syncopatedtimes.com. At the time<br>the website was only a few weeks old and none of the content from the<br>paper was on it. It was essentially just a place to put a paypal link<br>to renew the print paper. I was already writing obituaries for print<br>so I started putting them online as I wrote them. (It made for a<br>pretty depressing website, nothing but obits!)<br><br>When Brooks Kerr died a lot of the best information I found was from a<br>New York Times profile in the 1970s. He had a great quote about<br>himself, too good to pass up, so I used it and diligently cited the<br>source. Online I even linked to the original NYT story in their<br>archive.<br><br>A week later the site starts getting all kinds of traffic out of<br>nowhere. (At least for then, it was a quarter of what we get on a<br>normal day now but I was floored by it.)<br><br>The New York Times had cited The Syncopated Times in their obituary<br>for Kerr. They attributed to us the quote that we had clearly<br>attributed to them, and linked to us from their online story. They<br>also made it seem like the quote was much more recent than the early<br>70s if not contemporary.<br><br>We've had several more legitimate brushes with fame since, as after<br>that they from time to time began correctly citing us as a source.<br><br>Joe Bebco<br>Associate Editor<br>SyncopatedTimes.com (315) 507-5490<br>A monthly newspaper covering Hot Jazz, Ragtime, and Swing.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>To unsubscribe or change your e-mail preferences for the Dixieland Jazz Mailing list, or to find the online archives, please visit:<br><br><a href="http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz" target="_blank">http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz</a><br><br><br><br>Dixielandjazz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com" target="_blank">Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</a></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>