There's a picture of me somewhere in my parents' basement. It's Christmas morning. I'm about eleven years old and I'm holding two K-Tel records, beaming like I just received the greatest gifts ever.

Anyone who grew up from the late ’60s through to the early ’80s will be familiar with K-tel Records, the Winnipeg-based label founded by Phil Kives, a travelling salesman from Oungre, Sask., (current ...

If you grew up in the 1970s or 1980s, you probably owned at least one (if not many) K-Tel records. K-Tel were synonymous with compilations, releasing albums that contained everything from polka hits ...

WASHINGTON – Searching for songs you loved, but don’t have on your playlist is one of the joys of the Internet, especially music streaming services, including Spotify and Rdio. Long before the ability ...

"But wait, there's more!" That's a now-classic line used in infomercials, but it was completely innovative when first used in the '70s by Philip Kives, the founder of K-Tel. K-Tel populated '70s and ...

Where were you when you found out K-tel Records declared bankruptcy and shut down its U.S. music distribution subsidiary? Unless you worked for K-tel or a similar industry cranny, chances are you're ...

Which of the following acts has appeared on a Priority Records release: N.W.A., Ice Cube, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Devo, the Clash, Pure Prairie League, Rick Derringer, Reba ...

Just heard the sad news that Phil Kives, the founder of Winnipeg-based K-Tel International, had died yesterday at the age of 87. I never knew Kives personally, but back in the '70s I sure knew his ...

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 through mid-’80s.

Now that ”It was 20 years ago today” refers to the 1970s, Pravda Records is preparing an album tribute to K-Tel Records that will feature local bands covering those amazing, dynamic hits of yesteryear ...