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 ...

A poor Saskatchewan farm boy would grow up to change the music industry for decades. During the first half of the 20th century and the Great Depression, Philip Kives grew up in the hamlet of Oungre, ...

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 ...

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 ...

That`s the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) the record-buying public likes it (uh-huh, uh-huh), so Pravda Records is starting to compile a follow-up to its popular K-Tel tribute album, ”20 Explosive Dynamic Super ...

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.

Photo by Jeanne Rice> K-Tel Records. There is no better example of pathetic vinyl on the planet. I love K-Tels because they pressed a new one practically every week, and as a '70s kid on a budget, I ...