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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Infomercial pioneer Phillip Kives, founder of TV channel and sometime record label K-tel International, died on Wednesday, according to the Winnipeg Free Press. He was 87. Kives and his brother ...

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 ...

The K-Tel label is best known for compiling hundreds of cheesy pop-music collections. Recently, however, the label has begun to capitalize on music listeners' love of compiling just about everything: ...

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 ...

Platinum Entertainment Inc. of Downers Grove is buying some of the music business assets of Plymouth, Minn.-based K-Tel International Inc. for $35 million. Fourth-and-3. Game on the line. How Chicago ...

Platinum Entertainment Inc. said it has backed out of a deal to buy K-tel International Inc.’s music business. Both companies pointed the finger at the other for the collapse of the deal, and Downers ...

Philip Kives, master of the infomercial, has died. He was 87. With gadgets like the Miracle Brush and — wait, there's more! — the Veg-O-Matic food slicer, Kives started reeling in customers when he ...

John Kasich came to Ohio as a young man, and — discovering it to be a paradise on earth — never left. He served in the Ohio Senate, then almost two decades in the U.S. House of Representatives ...