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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...