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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few years back, I had lunch with Phil Kives, the legendary founder of the schlock-hawking company K-Tel, who passed away in late April, at age eighty-seven. Kives was in Toronto visiting his ...