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 ...

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.

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 ...

Among the many holiday advertising slogans I have seen and heard over the past five decades, one is particularly memorable (and appropriate here): “Give the gift of music.” Now, that can be done many ...

TORONTO (AP) — Philip Kives, the tireless TV pitchman whose commercials implored viewers to “wait, there”s more!” while selling everything from vegetable slicers to hit music compilations on vinyl, ...

Philip Kives, in word and deed as much as anyone, reminded millions of us that life is full of unimagined possibilities yet ultimately also finite. In other words, wait, there’s more. And quantities ...

With the loss already this year of so many big musical names, I don’t want one to get lost amid the closing numbers. Headliners include Prince, Merle Haggard, Paul Kantner, David Bowie and Glenn Frey.

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 ...