Steve: Well you can't win 'em all....

Every #1 chart topping hit was also a loser. The batting average for a U.S. platinum single is less than 1% market share. Your country math may vary. Mass media companies couldn't tell an 'up' from a 'down' vote if they tried. Buy it to burn it in protest or play it to death on repeat. There is no difference. Do not buy because you will hate it forever or will love it next payday. Still no difference.

Roderick: I understand what Gershwin was trying to do but Paul Whiteman wasn’t the man to help achieve it

Nice work if you can get it? Going by those same chart numbers, schmaltz is fair play and jazz ain't vegan. Most music critics couldn't name Paul Whiteman's instrument. The man hardly played a note. Yet Whiteman is, still today, one of the most successful “jazzmen” on planet Earth… by the numbers. Gershwin was on Paul Whiteman's job, not the other way around.

Take Five: Another non-African West Coast joint found on more than a few all-time 'Top Five' jazz lists.