K-Tel 1979 High Energy Album Commercial | MemoryMuseum If you have ever ... Because K-Tel owned more than 200,000 songs, he was later able to help populate Apple’s burgeoning iTunes format.

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.

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 ...

Operating in 20 countries, K-tel had sold more than 500 million albums by the early 1980s. ... Kives continued to work almost up to his death, driving himself into the office. In 1979, ...

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.