John Doremus was an American radio personality, best known for his radio syndication of "The Passing Parade

Passing Parade

The Passing Parade, a.k.a. John Nesbitt's Passing Parade, was an American radio series created, written, and narrated by John Nesbitt which was adapted into an Oscar-winning series of MGM short subjects...

", 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

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

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In 1964, his company pioneered the idea of in-flight music for airlines.

He had an uncredited voice-over part in the 1982 video game Sinistar

Sinistar

Sinistar is an arcade game released by Williams in 1982. It belongs to a class of video games from the 1980s called "twitch games". Other "twitch games" include Tempest, Defender, and Robotron: 2084. Sinistar was developed by Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger, Noah Falstein, RJ Mical and Richard Witt...

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