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

It did work for Kives, though, and from 1972 on, K-Tel was doing an album every couple of weeks. With titles such as Music Power, Disco Rocket, and Star Party, K-tel branched out of the country ...

A poor Saskatchewan farm boy would grow up to change the music industry for decades. During the first half of the 20th century and the Great Depression, Philip Kives grew up in the hamlet of Oungre, ...

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 ...

By 1978, the albums made up 80 percent of K-Tel’s business, with $33 million spent on television advertising. The margins were slim but profitable: $4 million was a good year in the 1970s.

From Hooked on Classics to country compilations, K-Tel was a '70s and '80s music business success, synonymous with popular compilation albums, TV ads and early infomercials. Then the music stopped.