Much of the content created on NPR Music is never played on the radio, including the Tiny Desk concerts.
Herrmann's success on the radio, including a tenure as chief conductor of the CBS Symphony from 1943 to 1951, did not prevent him from writing noncommercial scores.
He hasn't been alone in his visibility: Wednesday's "Howard Stern Show" on the radio included an appearance by Jason Itzler, the self-anointed "King of all Pimps".
Crouch writes that Parker also got serious about music, studying harmony at the piano and spending lots of time listening to other musicians on the radio, including the trumpeter Roy Eldridge and the alto saxophonist Buster Smith.
I still listened to the radio, including John Schaefer's 30-year-old institution New Sounds on WNYC, but even while I had the interest, I didn't always have the time, or energy, to pursue new music.
Langford was also heard for many years on the radio, including several seasons in the late 1940s and early '50s as Blanche Bickerson to Don Ameche's John Bickerson on NBC (later on CBS, with Lew Parker) in a comedy show about a relentlessly squabbling couple.
As such packages go, #1's was a solid retrospective of Mariah's chart hits, but because these songs were oversaturating the radio, including a favorite nonhit album track or two might have made a nice change.
