I loved this one as a kid and practically played the grooves flat. Like many of the others here, I collected these records in the seventies and received them as gifts for birthdays and holidays. I still have a lot of the K-Tel releases in my archive. Thanks for the post!
that's why I love buying old K-tel records. I was born in 1985, so i missed out on the '70s, but on most K-tel records, you discover all kinds of obscure songs and bands that no one's thought about in 30+ years.
I think I bought just about every one of these K-Tel records when I was a teenager! Just think what heaven I would have been in if mp3 and iPods had existed back then!
I had several K-Tel albums and I thought they were great!! I still have them. The thing about K-Tel is that at least they used the original artist singing the original songs. I have several albums where they got some knock off band to sing the famous songs, you should hear those :(
look at all those K-tel records!! I got a few in that pile too: "Sound Explosion", "Radio Active", "Music Express", "High Energy", "Canadian Mint", "Blast Off", and many more that aren't in that pile. I should make a video of all the K-tel records, 8 tracks, and cassettes I got.
K-Tel Records rule. I find these in the thrift stores and each album has at least more than one favorite. BTW, it sounded like the beginning of a spot for the movie, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at the end!
Somewhere I have 'Sesame Street Disco' that I bought with my allowance at Gibson's in Casper Wyoming for around 3 bucks. There is nothing sadder than the disco version of "C is for Cookie" but you couldn't have told the 7 year old me that.
the problem i always had with having all those songs on one side of the album was that some of the songs would be cut short and that always pissed me off!
Good Day! I have a # of K-tel lp's.....& a K-tel selector still in the box. It was a more economical way to have your fave tunes on 1 disc. Their philosophy, which sold well.
or Can't You Hear Me Knockin', Highway Star, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Baker Street, Lido Shuffle Man I miss those days. Every day you would turn on the radio and hear a new album like Led Zep 4 or Animals or Rumours. Yes, they would play the whole album on the radio, AND the ENTIRE ALBUM was worth listening to. We thought it would always be that way and it never occured to us that there would be an end to it, or that beat/drums would replace guitar as the main instrument in pop music.
K-tel's commercials were tacky and loud, but effective enough to run to K-mart, Towers or Zellers and bug mom for a record or 8-track tape. Thanks, K-tel, for getting me interested in music: I now own nearly 400 CDs and a number of MP-3s. My old K-tel records are hiding in my parents' basement, a surviving (but unusable) remnant from the 1970s.
@RetroCaptain How could you beat 22 songs for 4 bucks! Nice bargain, that was. I loved being too innocent to notice the audio compresssion and editing. If I heard those same albums today, I'd have a stroke.
It's like K-Tel had the prescience to know exactly who was going to be a one-hit wonder even when their one hit was hot at the time, and they signed every one of them.
Yeah if you OWNED the song, in any cut up/watered down form, you could play the song when you wanted to. Otherwise you hoped they would play it on the radio while you were listening and then begged everyone in the car to shut up so you could hear it. And then, 3 minutes and 27 seconds of bliss while you got to hear almost all of "Hitch A Ride" or "War Pigs" or "Immigrant Song" or "Kings And Queens".
Gads. K-Tel used to use old melted down vinyl from albums that didn't sell, paper labels and all, and pressed these God-awful sounding things and sell them to an unsuspecting music buying public. The audio quality was *awful*, but I guess folks in the 70's didn;t seem to care....
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I loved this one as a kid and practically played the grooves flat. Like many of the others here, I collected these records in the seventies and received them as gifts for birthdays and holidays. I still have a lot of the K-Tel releases in my archive. Thanks for the post!
that's why I love buying old K-tel records. I was born in 1985, so i missed out on the '70s, but on most K-tel records, you discover all kinds of obscure songs and bands that no one's thought about in 30+ years.
I think I bought just about every one of these K-Tel records when I was a teenager! Just think what heaven I would have been in if mp3 and iPods had existed back then!
Oh my God. I still have this album.
great tunes from a great time!
I remember seeing one of those old K-Tel records in my parents' record collection. It had many of the same songs heard in this commercial.
I miss all these mix albums. I have several K-Tel records.
"K-tel's" were the "Nows" of yesteryear!
I loved K tel! Thanks for posting this!
The "High Energy" album ... I think my older brother and/or sister had one of those K-Tel specials! What memories!
I have a few k-tel albums but they're CDs, released in the 90s and sound very good! The vinyl albums were another story.
Right on!
I now have most of those songs on my ipod. How technology has changed.
Wow - these songs are ancient but still hear them from time to time in clubs and bars to this day !!!
nice job!
Totally agree!
We had the High Energy LP -- greatmusic!
Geesh, remember how we HATED these annoying commercials when they aired? Now, they are almost priceless. Cool memories..... Thanks!
Man, I had every one of K-Tel's LPs! They could pack like 15 songs per side!!!
I STILL have two of those albums that were in the beginning of the video...LOL
The original thats what I call music.
:42 "Thunder Island", by Jay Ferguson, I still have the sheet music to that one from high school days. (and the original 45 rpm I just remembered)
Sounds like it was on THE BIG 8 CKLW!
"Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold was later adapted by Cynthia Fee as the theme song for the NBC sitcom _The Golden Girls_
ah, when there was good music!!
I had several K-Tel albums and I thought they were great!! I still have them. The thing about K-Tel is that at least they used the original artist singing the original songs. I have several albums where they got some knock off band to sing the famous songs, you should hear those :(
look at all those K-tel records!! I got a few in that pile too: "Sound Explosion", "Radio Active", "Music Express", "High Energy", "Canadian Mint", "Blast Off", and many more that aren't in that pile.
I should make a video of all the K-tel records, 8 tracks, and cassettes I got.
K-Tel Records rule. I find these in the thrift stores and each album has at least more than one favorite. BTW, it sounded like the beginning of a spot for the movie, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at the end!
Somewhere I have 'Sesame Street Disco' that I bought with my allowance at Gibson's in Casper Wyoming for around 3 bucks. There is nothing sadder than the disco version of "C is for Cookie" but you couldn't have told the 7 year old me that.
the problem i always had with having all those songs on one side of the album was that some of the songs would be cut short and that always pissed me off!
I found Neals record collection :-D
Good Day!
I have a # of K-tel lp's.....& a K-tel selector still in the box.
It was a more economical way to have your fave tunes on 1 disc. Their philosophy, which sold well.
@CollectorOfMusic vinyl ftw, i blow so much money on vinyl
@NoLawyers4President good for you...i'm off to two guys to get mine....on sale too
I'm gonna make a vid of them within the next few weeks
Didn't they even shorten the songs to fit 20 songs on one album?
or Can't You Hear Me Knockin', Highway Star, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Baker Street, Lido Shuffle
Man I miss those days. Every day you would turn on the radio and hear a new album like Led Zep 4 or Animals or Rumours. Yes, they would play the whole album on the radio, AND the ENTIRE ALBUM was worth listening to. We thought it would always be that way and it never occured to us that there would be an end to it, or that beat/drums would replace guitar as the main instrument in pop music.
Most of these stores that are heard at the end are no longer in business.
@virnman Annoyingly, DJ's talk over the intro and the ending *now*!
K-tel's commercials were tacky and loud, but effective enough to run to K-mart, Towers or Zellers and bug mom for a record or 8-track tape. Thanks, K-tel, for getting me interested in music: I now own nearly 400 CDs and a number of MP-3s. My old K-tel records are hiding in my parents' basement, a surviving (but unusable) remnant from the 1970s.
@RetroCaptain How could you beat 22 songs for 4 bucks! Nice bargain, that was. I loved being too innocent to notice the audio compresssion and editing. If I heard those same albums today, I'd have a stroke.
It's like K-Tel had the prescience to know exactly who was going to be a one-hit wonder even when their one hit was hot at the time, and they signed every one of them.
loko
@JoshuaTaylor To much Marijuana on board!!
all of these songs were cut in half on k-tel & the audio was bad..
@jekiwe OMG...Two Guys!! I forgot!! What about Grant's? :))
Yeah if you OWNED the song, in any cut up/watered down form, you could play the song when you wanted to. Otherwise you hoped they would play it on the radio while you were listening and then begged everyone in the car to shut up so you could hear it. And then, 3 minutes and 27 seconds of bliss while you got to hear almost all of "Hitch A Ride" or "War Pigs" or "Immigrant Song" or "Kings And Queens".
Gads. K-Tel used to use old melted down vinyl from albums that didn't sell, paper labels and all, and pressed these God-awful sounding things and sell them to an unsuspecting music buying public. The audio quality was *awful*, but I guess folks in the 70's didn;t seem to care....
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