Steve: If your Well you can't win 'em all... was not about how Roderick does Roderick on Rhapsody in Blue, then I am the one that missed your drift. Otherwise just... all so-called popular music is in fact hugely unpopular by the maths.

Whiteman is the jazz tie-in, not Gershwin. Millions of listeners have been giving all pop music critics a miss for two centuries now. You are not alone.