From Hooked on Classics to country compilations, K-Tel was a '70s and '80s music business success, synonymous with popular ...

Remembering ultimate cheese label K-tel. SECTIONS ... And unless you were a pre-teen weaned on UHF reruns and the last gasp of Top 40 AM radio during the 1970s, you may not even know what K-tel was.

The margins were slim but profitable: $4 million was a good year in the 1970s. The compilation albums helped K-Tel thrive until the 1980s, at which point Kives made a series of self-admitted lousy ...

Kives, however, wouldn't stop at ads. "The late '60s and the '70s, that was an incredible time for K-Tel, because they were often in the marketplace by themselves," said filmmaker Cam Bennett in ...

K-tel grew exponentially in the 1970s and by the early 1980s, the company had sold more than half a billion albums world-wide. Kives was born in Ougre, Saskatchewan, on Feb. 12, ...

Phil Kives, a Winnipeg businessman who made one of television's very first infomercials and founded Plymouth-based K-Tel International Inc., has died at age 87. The Winnipeg Free Press has an ...

Philip Kives dies; K-Tel founder and 'wait, there's more!' pitchman. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 65°F. Wednesday, April 9th 2025 Today's e-Edition. Home Page. News.

In the '70s and '80s, Winnipeg record label K-Tel was the master of compilation albums and infomercials. We speak with Samantha Kives, daughter of K-Tel's founder Philip Kives, about the company's ...

KASICH: This is 1970. And I said, well, sir, ... K-TEL was founded by a Canadian salesman named Phil Kives, who learned his trade hawking wares on a boardwalk. But before that, he had another job.

Las Vegas(KLAS)-The Composers Room is known for its distinctive blend of vintage charm and contemporary entertainment. And on May 12, guests can experience “The K-Tel All-Stars – A Groovy 70 ...

K-tel grew exponentially in the 1970s and by the early 1980s, the company had sold more than half a billion albums world-wide. Kives was born in Ougre, Saskatchewan, on Feb. 12, ...