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Ktel

michaelhigh

michaelhigh

mind's eye music
Is anyone having fun with these? I love the music of my 60's and 70's childhood, and these records are the perfect time capsule for my grade school years (64-70) and my high school ones (72-76). I've been getting them for 50c apiece! KTEL FOREVER!!!:banana:
 
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K-Tel

Have quite a few myself. thrifts used to be full of them not as much now. I do give them a spin now and then. I will say I put a small collection of the K-tel collections together. was trying to get them all but I got derailed some where along the line and never got back on track. There is quite a large number of different K-tel records out there. :thmbsp:
 
I'm including all various artists. That encompasses quite a large body of work spanning various genres as well.
 
michaelhigh said:
I'm including all various artists. That encompasses quite a large body of work spanning various genres as well.
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At first it didn't matter as I was picking up the many different various artists records also. I noticed just how many different K-tels were out there at the time I seemed to focus in on the K-tels. I think for awhile they just stopped showing up, that goes along with a bunch of other records that were easy to find at one time but not so much anymore. I still will pick up K-tels in VG or better condition. :D
 
I have about 100 K-Tel and Ronco "various artists" LPs. They are are a great source of long lost, hard-to-find gems and for the most part sound quite good, as I only buy excellent+ condition vinyl.
 
I ususally pick up the ones from the 70's as these have a wider variety of music from your cheesy AM ballards to the disco hits to the FM radio staples.
 
Having been introduced to music through am radio(70-74)I would enjoy listening to them but all I have come across have been beat to hell.
 
K-TEL originated from my home town so there are still lots of LP's banging around from yrs ago at all the thrifts but I don't have any as I put all of them on R 2 R many yrs ago when I could get them relatively cheap!
 
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No record collection should be without at least one of these...;)

This was actually the very first record I ever bought. It was a garage sale across the street from where I grew up. It was .10 and I must've been about 8 or 9. I bought it because my uncle liked The Who and I Can See For Miles is on this one. The one from the garage sale is long gone. This one in the picture I found just recently at a thrift for a buck. Looks like it was hardly ever played.
 
I have I Believe in Music, Bright Side of Music and Today's Super Greats even though I have the entire Super Hits of the 70's on Rhino records.
 
Back in '69, one of my college buddies came back from break with one of those compilation records. I don't remember what label it was, but boy, was he pissed! All the songs were about 30 seconds long, then faded into psycho-rocko sound effects for a few seconds before the next song started. There must have been over 50 cuts on that album.

Does anybody remember these? I think it was a brand that got heavy advertising on TV and/or radio. But of course they never mentioned the "abbreviated" feature.
 
I never turn down a K-Tel disc at the thrifts. Like you guys, they are a slice of my personal history.

They were still touting music in Germany when I resided there in 1995.
 
This is the nicest K-Tel I've found not for the music but the presentation and the story behind the album. I guess K-Tel really got around this copy is from Finland.

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Never bought one, but I still remember the commercials that were on late night.

Midnight Special comes to mind as one of the shows that had them featured.
 
Tinitus said:
Back in '69, one of my college buddies came back from break with one of those compilation records. I don't remember what label it was, but boy, was he pissed! All the songs were about 30 seconds long, then faded into psycho-rocko sound effects for a few seconds before the next song started. There must have been over 50 cuts on that album.

Does anybody remember these? I think it was a brand that got heavy advertising on TV and/or radio. But of course they never mentioned the "abbreviated" feature.
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There were some radio station records that did this, but the K-Tels and Roncos were original artists, licensed through the respective record companies and did a great job of promoting the artists and at the same time gave the teenager a rockin' good time! I recommend them highly for anyone who likes a good time with the cheapest way to get a wide variety, from bubblegum to classic rock. Even New Wave!:banana:
 
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