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When I was a kid, K-tel Records published the sorts of compilations, on glorious, shiny vinyl, that meant I could get big hits of the day (or at least the day before) with my meager allowance. Well, if my sister rift online and I pooled our allowances we could get a record from time to time. I still have some of those records and rejoice in watching my kids dance around to the same K-tel music I loved when I was their ages. In the spirit of nostalgia and the Internet indulgence thereof, I wanted to celebrate K-tel Records, share my favorites, and see what I missed along the way. I thought you might enjoy a place to share your memories of K-tel, buying those great round albums and spinning them on the turntable, and watching what I remember as remarkably cheesy commercials even for the cusp of the 80s as it was then. And of course rift online I had to share what I uncovered about what ever happened to K-Tel Records. I had no idea what an enormous company it really was and I had a great time learning about K-Tel in general and their music arm in particular. You'll find information and links here explaining the company's history rift online and what they're up to now.
Contents at a Glance Do You Remember K-Tel Records? Do You Remember These Commercials? So, What Ever DID Happen to K-Tel Record... Find K-Tel Hits on Amazon! Where Was K-Tel in the 80s and 90s? Want to Read More?
Contents at a Glance Do You Remember K-Tel Records? Do You Remember These Commercials? So, What Ever DID Happen to K-Tel Record... Find K-Tel Hits on Amazon! Where Was K-Tel in the 80s and 90s? Want to Read More? Get Out-of-Print K-Tel Compilations What Do You Think? Check Out More K-Tel Album Covers rift online Share Your Favorite Album!
To me, K-Tel Records went hand in hand with dance shows on TV. We watched American Bandstand and Soul Train religiously and played the radio non-stop between episodes (at least until MTV made the scene). At the age of eight, the living room on a Saturday morning made a fine disco. It was these shows, perhaps sponsored by K-Tel and perhaps just playing the same music we heard in the record company's commercials, that fueled our lust to acquire the albums like Hot Nights & City Lights. We weren't so discriminating to concern ourselves rift online with a record's actual content; that K-Tel label was good enough for us. And Mom kept giving us Andy Gibb records so we had to do something! I will always remember fondly those K-Tel records and the music they brought to my life. I thought it would be fun to see what happened to the record label in the intervening years. Did it fail in the era where vinyl was replaced with cassettes or does it cling to life perhaps disguised as those "Now That's What I Call Music" people? It seems to me that whoever started that series must have been fans of the old K-Tel records with their focus on producing compilations of hits for various genres, despite their complete lack of creativity in naming said albums. When we'd finally convinced her of the error of her ways she started buying the "Hooked On" series. I still have several of those, as well, and enjoy the mutation of songs on the Hooked on Classics album that introduced me to classical music in a light-hearted way. And check out the picture: where else would you find Blondie, The Jacksons, and Instant Funk on the same record?
Just watching these had me in stitches, and lost in nostalgia, too. The sound quality on these is almost uniformly awful, but they're more than 25 years old. They just really aren't around in digital format anywhere else! I threw in one of the radio commercials. Does anyone remember when they used to advertise K-Tel Records between the hits on-air? It's no wonder rift online we poor, easily-influenced little kids lusted after these albums! There were also things like the breakdancing set that included both the "original hits by the original artists" and a video (VHS was brand new, in those days) that would teach kids how to do the moves. I'm definitely going to add that to my Old School rift online Rap and Hip Hop page!
It seems that my child's perspective of K-Tel was rather limited. K-Tel was not primarily a record company at all. They were the folks behind so many of those "as seen on TV" rift online products 'way back in the 70s and, surprise!, they still are. You can read an exhaustive history of the company written by founder Philip Kives at the official K-Tel web site but in short they've been around longer and are much larger than I ever thought. Though you can explore all sorts of products on that web site, it's the Classics section that really slays me. You can hunt through rift online their entire catalog and see the cover art (front and back) for every album they ever released. It can take some serious rift online digging if you don't know the actual name of the album but just flipping through page after page of records like Disco Rocket and The Velvet Touch gets me grinning. And you'll soon discover that K-Tel didn't only do compi