K-Tel Documentary

[@TruthTalkTarot]

Fantastic! A total blast from the past. I was a kid in the 70's and I LOVED the compilations. Made my allowance go much farther. I'd forgotten 90% of this, but I remember the SNL skit. Fun! Thanks for posting this.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Classic company. I have most of those albums!

[@josephconsoli4128]

The objective of the salesman is to sell something people don't need with money they don't have. If you actually need something and you have the money/credit, you'll go out and buy. You don't need to be coaxed into it. Actually, the first record I ever bought was a K-TEL LP, "Circuit-Breaker" circa 1979. The commercials were convincing!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

They did their job.

[@ventues9751]

This just an awesome documentary !!

[@jaxhoffalot2812]

Fascinating, really enjoyed watching that!

[@stephenszklarski5446]

This is great

[@scootermom1791]

Many of the products they produced were actually pretty useful, in my opinion. Not totally useless cheap gadgets.

[@Hillers62]

Growing up in the 70's, I bought a lot of K-TEL's biggest hit albums...Disco Mania, Music Express, Block Busters, Mind Bender, Hit Machine, Disco Rocket, Let's Disco, Disco Dynamite, Disco Fire, Disco Nights, Hot Nights And City Lights...How do I remember them? I still have them!...Plus some Ronco albums, too!!!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Yeah, Ronco got on this too, got some of their LP's.

[@seabreeze9296]

Too bad they ALL went under. K-tel, Ronco, Polytel, Ahed, Jukebox International, Polystar, Impact....Even Quality records stopped making compilations

[@Viperkal]

That was FANTASTIC!

[@joellarson8906]

Phono-Log Favorites

[@seabreeze9296]

"Right On!" "That was "Fantastic". It Was "Dynamite". What a "Mind Bender"

[@beng2427]

I kept my K-Tel records in my record-selector.

[@josephtisdale5262]

The K-Tel CEO should have invested in those record companies in the Toronto Stock Exchange. [TSE]

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

True.

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

Of course it had to be Canadian. I suspected.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

From Canada with love. Their US office was in Minnetonka, MN, though I'm sure that's close to Winnipeg.

[@ryansperception]

Hal sent me here

[@TyroneEpps]

I remember k-tel records

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

when was this?

[@agent3015]

K-Tel exec. Bryan Turner will go on to sign NWA, Snoop Dogg, Jay Z, West Side Connection and more.. Ktel Bryan Turner left Ktel and created Priority Records. - NWA and Snoop are kind of from Winnipeg in this way. Ktel family is incredibly important to GFunk and Gangsta Rap.