Is there anything better than K-Tel? Anyone?

Lame copycat, how dare I try to get attention, yeah I already know. You can like it or you can not like it.

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I owned a few. One was a disco one, one was called college radio or something like that and I don't remember the other but it had Kool and the Gang on it.

they had quite a few different artists on each album and they sounded much better than my mix tapes that I made by holding up my tape player to the radio.

Something like 20 songs to a disk, by shrinking the groove that the needle traveled in.

I had a lot of these when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, they were pretty cheap, and K-Tel seemed to release a new one every month.

but it was a good way for someone with not alot of pocket change to get the music on the radio-and alot of it-for a decent price.

Oooh, dreeeeaaaam Weaaavah, I believe you can get me through the night!


I don't know why, but when I was a youngster and got my first turntable, I also got some K-tel compilation albums--I was six. I was all about the little 45 rpm things that came with "Wonder Woman" comics and you could read along (anybody else remember that sort of thing?) But there I was with "Do the Hustle" and "Disco Inferno" and who knows what else top-40 mid-70's stuff playing (I still have'em in a box somewhere.) All I know is, my older cousins tried to teach me "the Bump" to them, and I seriously got bruised. And my musical taste may have been scarred for life.

Not really, but how amazing that someone thought this stuff up, hired engineers, made prototypes, approved them, mass-produced them, made commercials and bought airtime for them..

Straight from my LP collection:

From "Bright Side of Music" (circa 1972-73): "Oh Babe What Would You Say," by Hurricane Smith. "Daisy a Day," Jud Strunk. "Love Jones," Brighter Side of Darkness. Also, "Bell Bottom Blues," Eric Clapton. "I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance) Part I," James Brown.

From "Believe In Music" (circa 1972): "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)," Looking Glass. "How Do You Do," Mouth and McNeil. "Go All the Way," The Raspberries. "Sylvia's Mother," Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. "No," Bulldog.

I also have a two-LP album, "Superstars Greatest Hits," from 1974.

What I liked about K-Tel was that it managed to get 11 songs on one side of an LP. Of course, that meant extensive editing, but hey, for what you paid for the album, you got what you paid for.

Long live K-Tel. Just looking at these albums tonight brought back good memories.