JOHN DOREMUS SHOW - TREES, ROSES and TRAVEL

 

John Doremus was born on August 3, 1931 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, USA as John Crumley Doremus. He was an actor, known for Sinistar (1983). Radio programmer and personality. He died on July 6, 1995 in Naperville, Illinois, USA. John Doremus, with a melodious-voice, was a disc jockey in Chicago for more than two decades, was known by many as "the nation's foremost beautiful music host."

John Doremus Show - AFRTS - 111 29-7

 

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Doremus opens this hour long episode of beautiful music with "Do I Hear A Waltz" by The Percy Faith Orchestra.

JOHN DOREMUS SHOW "AFRTS 111 29-7"

John Doremus, with a melodious-voice, was a disc jockey in Chicago for more than two decades, was known by many as "the nation's foremost beautiful music host." In addition to top-rated radio shows, he hosted "Patterns in Music" on NBC-TV in the 1960s. In 1964, he created the concept of airlines providing in-flight audio entertainment and his John Doremus Inc. supplied airlines with 14-channels of programming, individually tailored to their specific needs. A longtime resident of the John Hancock Building, he died in July 1995 in Community Convalescent Center in Naperville. Here is an aircheck of one of Doremus' beautiful music hours for AFRTS.

JOHN DOREMUS

John Doremus (August 3, 1931 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma – July 6, 1995 in Naperville, Illinois) was an American radio personality, best known for his radio syndication of The Passing Parade, a series of short stories of remarkable but relatively unknown episodes throughout history. In the late 1950s he acquired the rights to the series, which until then had been a television series, and syndicated it for radio. The stories chronicled such diverse topics as the first white man to discover the mountain gorilla to the espionage and intrigue during wartime. During the mid-1960s he produced Patterns in Music for WMAQ in Chicago.