Sold with taglines like "20 Original Hits, 20 Original Artists" the K-Tel albums were treasure troves of music, vinyl discs filled with hidden gems amid some duds. It didn't even matter if there ...

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

The products that K-Tel marketed—things like the Hair Magician, a razor-tipped comb; a line of color-changing Mood Shirts; the Record Selector, an auto-flipping vinyl-record stand—were cheap ...

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.

K-tel grew exponentially in the 1970s and by the early 1980s, the company had sold more than half a billion albums world-wide. Mr. Kives was born in Ougre, Saskatchewan, on Feb. 12, 1929, the ...

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.

Gerald Rea hasn’t seen the new musical “33 1/3 — House of Dreams” commemorating the parade of talent who recorded at Hollywood’s Gold Star studio in the vinyl golden age of the 1950s ...

Not My Job: Gov. John Kasich Get Quizzed On K-Tel The governor of Ohio faces three questions about the company which invented the infomercial (and also made those '70s music compilation albums ...

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.

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, 1929, the third of ...