Marroni that sucks big time how hippacritical,we had Woolworths,Safeway and Coles in Australia Coles was the go to for diner and variety in its stores and they were very tolerant of everybody.Woolworths and Safeway merged to Woolworths,and they suck today
contraryMV I keep buying them from eBay and flea markets, Amassed over 120 upto now, most are pennies nobody wants them, which makes them even better to collect
@@Timemachine74 the older 70s ones were really squashed together and sacrificed audio quality and sometimes parts of the songs. Around 1979 however ktel changed and started offering less songs per side and fixed up their sound quality. I had quite a few of the 80s double lps and it was full songs in album quality. I cant do christmas without the hit list albums
Because the very concept of "hits" belonged even then to an earlier age-- Top 40 AM radio. The cool sounds were albums, on FM, a COMPLETELY different vibe (culture), and way cooler than over-commercialized AM hit-driven radio (culture).
The Movie Dealers UNFORTUNATELY ☹️,Everything is soooo disgusting now,Foul world we live in now😡,But fortunately we have fredflix to keep the awesome memories alive here🙂
@@gial.1854 DARN RIGHT! TOO BAD THERE AREN'T MORE LIKE HIM. HEY! YOU LIKE 35MM PRINTS? WATCH THE OLD TV SERIES FROM 1968 CALLED N.Y.P.D. AN EPISODE CALLED FAST GUN! IT HAS ALL THE COMMERCIALS ON IT FROM 51 YEARS AGO INCLUDING AN AD FOR "LARK" WITH THE ACTIVATED CHARCOAL FILTER! 🦃
Valerieann Rumpf Almost all the sears stores are no more,Sears like Boston store were the main staples of the malls,Sign of the times,Onlne stores is KILLING the malls now
I was born in 69, so as a kid in the 70’s & a teen in the 80’s: K Tel albums were always what I wanted for my Christmas gift or birthday gift. What great memories, the songs on the albums were always the hot hits at the skating rink. Oh how I miss the 70’s & 80’s! Folks don’t know what they are missing💭😁
I'm from Germany, I know these commercials only dubbed in German, which makes the over-enthousiastic announcer even more ridiculous. But no, he didn't sound like one of these Nazis from the movies you Americans like so much :-)
I was a teen in the mid-70's and had a couple of K-tels that were a key part of my early record collection. One was named "Fantastic" which you can see at the 15:10 mark. I took those and my assorted 45's to a couple of grade school dances, and they let me spin records. My classmates heard it and after learning I had my own mobile record player & speakers I began to get invitations to their birthday parties. I did this all the way through high school. A couple of years later I opened up my own DJ service and was in the business for 10 years. Thanks for posting. Funny how a little thing like a K-tel album can change your life forever! LoL!
All we need now are a couple of Grifter or BMX bikes, hot summer days, bottles of Corona, Jubblies, skateboards, Matchbox cars, Action Man, penny sweets, sterilised milk, metal dustbins, white dog poo, Bazooka gum, lemon sherbets, knocking conkers of trees, apple scrumping, go carts made out of wood & pram wheels...... And we're away!!!
K-Tel certainly deserve a homage- they revolutionised the record scene..before K-Tell you could only buy single collections by session singers not the original artists (at least here in the UK) and an LP only ran about about 24 minutes a side. K-Tell came along and stuffed 10 original tunes on each side and sold it to you for a couple of pounds.Thanks Fred they deserve it.
In honor of passing of Elvis, I saw a similar one for his album, and on it was his song Good Luck Charm, such warm memories for I remember first seeing that ad at my late-great grandmother's house.😇🥰🥲
Just so you all know, I’m 32 and still seeking out these k-tel records. These songs lived on, and the old vinyls that you’ve all loved and passed on are still being purchased and enjoyed by my generation as well.
I bought the KTEL and Ronco albums at Kmart in one town visiting grandparent's for the summer and in the town where I lived it was TG&Y and Value Giant.
It took a truely sick mind to compile over half an hour of old K-tell adds. ... And an even sicker mind to spend over half an hour watching them. ... ok, i have a sick mind. i loved it. great job. i actually baught most of these albums when i was growing up in the 70s. thanks for the memory blast.
K-tel. We used to laugh at these, but K-tel had it going on. You got what was going on with Top 40 on all these albums; a little Rock, a little Soul, a little Disco, a little bit of everything all put together. Fred, you are one of the brightest spots in the RUclips universe. I know it takes a LOT of time to put these together and speaking for myself, I hope you know how much you are appreciated.
What I get from K-Tel collections is the sense of what radio was at the time. The A.M. format ruled through the 70's. FM was just a stereo version of the AM format which was: Play a wide range of music and see what is popular in your market. Not narrowcasting. Black, white, dance, ballads, electric, acoustic, political, romantic, hard driving, mellow, urban, country, on and on. Your best local radio station played it all on one station. These records reflected not just the top ten hits, but the near forgotten other songs that were played.
These songs remind me of a funny story. When I was a kid (back in the early 1970s) my mother would drag us three kids to Gemco to do her grocery shopping. If we behaved, sg4d would buy each of us a 45RPM record which we called 45s at the time. For those of you too young, a 45 record has a single song on each side. One of our school teachers occasionally allowed us to bring a record to school on Fridays which she played during class. It was a nice treat for the class. It was also the only time we could legally bring a 45 to school. Only those my age would understand this.
I remember K-Tel to be a barometer of inflation. When K-Tel records first came out they were "3.99, tapes or cassettes 4.99!" things have gotten expensive since! Thanks for posting!
I recall, on "22 Fantastic Hits", that one, of the edits, was the final, explanatory verse, of "The Night The Lights Went Out(In Georgia)", by Vicki Lawrence. Fortunately, our local radio station was playing the entire cut; THEN, the song made sense!
That was their catch. Too often they cut the songs down to fit them all on! It didn't help matters the grooves were so thin it was easy to pick up a lot of surface noise unless you turn the treble down.
Don Crabbe: What they cut out was the second refrain; the verse remained. If the song didn't make sense to you, then you weren't listening, as you got this wrong. How do I know? They did the same thing on "Superstars' Greatest Hits". But it was never K-tel's decision to use edited songs. Think about it. It was the original labels who did this, only allowing them to use parts of songs. And there was no parentheses in the title of Vicki Lawrence's #1 hit.
I finally heard the complete version of Brooks Benton 's song . A Rainy day in Georgia " after hearing the first few verses off one these ads in the 70's a year ago . So many songs I just knew the first few verse thanks to these ads that they played 20 times a week .
I looked forward to the K-Tel compilations every Christmas - the perfect gift! I still have them and my favorite to date is the 24 Electrifying Hits from 1969. I'm lucky enough to have 3000 LPs in my music studio (my husband is an Oldies DJ). One of my favorite things to do as a kid was to go to Bradlee's (I lived in the U.S back then) and get 45 rpm records. I love your videos @FredFlix!
WOW, cool and FAR OUT, MAN!! Memories....50 years ago was 9 about to turn 10...Friday nights - Brady Bunch and K-Tel Commercials! 10 years later was it Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (or Midnight Special?) and K-Tel Commercials! Thanks for wonderful yesteryear memories, FredFlix...keep 'em coming!
Back in the days where C.O.D. was an acceptable way of payment. And how can you forget the "7 albums for 1 cent" record clubs, complete with the stamps that you affixed to the mailer telling them which ones to send you? That was the 1970's version of Netflix for LPs & cassettes. Wait, what?! What's a cassette?
Can anyone under 30 even grasp the concept of K-Tel Records? We had several! Notice how they always said "Original Hits, Original Stars"? That's because there were also records floating around on TV that had 3rd party imitators doing all the songs! No wonder they were such a good buy! Does anyone remember THOSE? Show me some commercials for those phonies and you have my attention!
I swear to god, long about 1976 or so, this compilation album was advertised on TV and had all the hits we listened to back then. One in particular was CW McCall's Convoy. I was all ready to buy this album--as it was super cheap--and my friend told me don't do it. I was like, but it has all the good songs. He was like, those are not the real songs. That is NOT CW McCall singing that, its an imposter! Never did get it. The big clue was when it said "not available in stores". The K-Tels always were. I wish I could remember the name of that album or find that commercial! Also, I remember some authentic, but non-K-Tel, albums being advertised constantly. One in particular was called "Freedom" and was filled with a bunch of hippyish late 60s/early 70s songs like Hair and One Tin Soldier, and had an illustration of a long haired hippy chic on the cover. I eventually bought a copy when I found it in the 80s at a used record store, just for the hell of it.
I've always wondered how much K-Tel had to pay to use those songs. Or was it a deal in which they would pay the record companies from the album sales? Anybody know?
I remember one of those imitation song records very well, my sister and I would laugh when they advertised it on the TV,as they stated the songs were by "The Originals" that being the name of the band that made them, hahaha, talk about deceptive.We would always wonder who would be stupid enough to be fooled by that. I guess we found out when one of my parents got it for my sister as a birthday present.,not knowing what it was. Even the records that had the real artists on them didn't sound very good,I think they used worn out masters to press them out or something.And all the songs were the very short AM radio versions.
I remember the K-Tell rec adds of the early 70s,the announcer sounding like a hip DJ and the LPs having titles "20 Happening Hits"-good days Auckland New Zealand 2022
Another AWESOME FredFlix creation! "Where were you 50 years ago?" I was in beautiful Pecatonica, Illinois! Which was a lot like being Opie in Mayberry. It was a great time to be alive, my oldest brother might not have thought so as he was just deployed to a weird place that none of us had ever heard of... Vietnam, he never returned. But, at the time we thought it would be all over in a year or so. (That's what the govt told us, why would they lie?) Our ignorance of the harsh future was a blessing, we were happy in spite of the lean years that were coming. Great video Fred! God Bless.
@@kamuelalee I've got a number of K-Tel albums on both vinyl and audio cassette. Whatever format they used, some of the tracks got chopped. It was always disappointing to find that the tracks that were shortened generally tended to be the ones you liked.
I bought a couple of those 'albums'. They had poor quality recordings and some songs were edited for length but it didn't matter. The memories of what I did while listening to them is what matters now. Thanks for posting Fred
@@FredFlix in the early nineties I bought one of these K-tell records second hand, unopened and played it in a good turn table with good stylus and through speakers I couldn't afford in 1973 and it sounded great. Got it stashed somewhere. Thanks for the time travel Fred.
I miss K-tel! I can still remember the 8 tracks and cassette tapes, lol! I even remember having K-tel tapes for my Sony Walkman, ha! They're all obsolete now. 😞 But thanks for the friday night goodies Fred! 😊
back in the day you could by a album with a couple good songs and 8 crap ones or for a dollar less you could get a K-Tell record with 20 hits ............K-Tel the prehistoric mixtape .
Such great memories. I have several K-tel record albums from the 70s & early 80s that I got at my local WOOLWORTHS'S store back home. I love them all and they still sound great. You can still find these records at ebay.
The Woolworths store for the record costing one pound and 99 pennies was an Aussie commercial from 1965 before Australia adopted the dollar and cents as their currency. Ktel sold a lot of records here and a lot of gadget crap as well. Woolworths was a department store here ... they still exist... Woolworths is now a massive supermarket chain here and "Big W" is the department store arm.
@sportster1988 ...Funny, because the nickname for Woolworths in Australia has always been "Woolies" (Aussies love nicknames). I do recall that your original Woolworths stores were called the "F.W. Woolworth Department Stores", especially in NYState.
I never claimed that our Woolworths was connected to F.W, Woolworths BUT they did use similar generic names live "Chevron" (probably as they used similar overseas suppliers).
Wow. Amazing compilation (the video...and some of these albums too, I guess). When I was 6 or 7 years old, these commercials were my intro to popular music. I remember these commercials so well that I still know a lot of these songs by the 3 second clips played here. I could anticipate the next song by memory. Thanks for uploading this.
Wow! What an awesome trip back through my childhood.believe it or not, I actually had most of these albums at one time or another. But you missed one. I kept waiting for "DYNAMIC SOUND" to come up. But an awesome collection, none the less. Thanks.
Ah , memories of the 70s. We had a lot of these K-Tel albums but some parts of the songs were left off of the albums. Thanks Fred for putting together these K-Tel commercials and I remember most of them. My teen age son makes fun of my "boomer memories" and tells me to stop thinking about the past. I said to my son , "One day when I'm gone you'll be able to buy a house or two with all of my "boomer" comic books of the 1960s and 1970s!"
Awesome, great memories being in the single digits during the 1970s and double digits in the 1980s I remember the Commercials and this music was on the radio what a great time to be young happy and free....
Local stations would have to superimpose the names on screen or cut to a slide showing said locations. A lot of other similar ads like ones for "Chia-Pet" and "The Clapper" would have the same deal.
25 Greatest Polka Hits...and here I was all along thinking the Schmenge Brothers had the market all to themselves! How about some cabbage rolls and coffee? Mmm-mmm good!
This is what I try telling the youth of today about when it came to an actual "hard copy" of an album/song. Well ... song, since not many kids know what an album is. In this day and age you can get virtually any, and I mean any song within seconds off the internet. But, yet, something's been lost. These K-tel commercials created instant fans, thanks to legendary bands, and delivered a record that many of us still have to this day. Found out a few years ago record are making a comeback. Not surprised! Nothing sounds like a real record. Damn, do I sound like an old fuddy-duddy.
Yep, amazingly vinyl still isn't dead. I still have 2 fully working turntables, a belt drive pioneer that turned 40 this year, shes on her 4th belt. & a yamaha DD table from the early 80's.
In the last decade, vinyl made a huge comeback, especially with audiophiles and people who were serious about music. Y'all might know them better as "hipsters", but they definitely kept the market going for record players and accessories, that's for sure.
Not sure how I missed this incredible gem all the way from 2017, but, thanks to whoever at YT decided to needed to see this, it's spectacular! And of course, a big shout out to Mr Fred for all the hard work in putting this masterpiece together - GREAT JOB, FRED!
Wow what a beautiful collection!! A true trip down memory lane here, and I had many of these, and I think “Hit Machine” was my all-time favorite, and I’m so happy to see it included here :-) Thank you for sharing these!
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I remember going to Woolworths to buy my K-tel LP, then go to the Woolworths diner and have a Hamburger and a soda. Ahh, the good ol days!
alley kitty must been something indeed
@@ClarenceFisher
63
I did not eat out much so when I went to Woolworth’s diner and had a meal it was a TREAT!
Woolworth's used to make the best fried chicken at the time. Greasier than KFC, just the way I liked 'em. Fo reals. lol
Marroni that sucks big time how hippacritical,we had Woolworths,Safeway and Coles in Australia Coles was the go to for diner and variety in its stores and they were very tolerant of everybody.Woolworths and Safeway merged to Woolworths,and they suck today
I don't know why we made fun of these in the 70's, I'd love to have them all now.
contraryMV I keep buying them from eBay and flea markets, Amassed over 120 upto now, most are pennies nobody wants them, which makes them even better to collect
@@Timemachine74 the older 70s ones were really squashed together and sacrificed audio quality and sometimes parts of the songs. Around 1979 however ktel changed and started offering less songs per side and fixed up their sound quality. I had quite a few of the 80s double lps and it was full songs in album quality. I cant do christmas without the hit list albums
Because the very concept of "hits" belonged even then to an earlier age-- Top 40 AM radio. The cool sounds were albums, on FM, a COMPLETELY different vibe (culture), and way cooler than over-commercialized AM hit-driven radio (culture).
I would literally trade ANYTHING for those vinyl LP’s back in my hands..trembling at the thought. The 70s rocked, I don’t care how you slice it..Aha!
I'm heading out to Woolworths to get my copy.
That really was an interesting store, especially the one in Sault Saint Marie, MI {350yrs:2018}
lol me too
MerleOberon lol
Is WTGrants next door?
The chain music retailer "Sound of Music" was in Minnesota, anyone know if it was in other states too?
You should get a grammy award for putting this together.
Mention me to the Academy, Jeremy.
I miss the 70's sooooo much ....
Then you remember Vietnam, Nixon, STDs, ...
@@chocomanger6873
Oh yeah but a much better time than now!
@@vincef.8261 *than
@@chocomanger6873 Thanks.
It was not just a different time - it was like being on a different planet. For real.
I miss my 70s ohhhhhhh how I wish I could go back in time😩😩😭😭😭😢😢yes those were songs!! Not all this music they sing now, cursing and killing.
I concur
Yeah, I want my 70s,too.
Steve Carras hi steve👍I’m with you💯💯💯
Being a teenager in the 70’s I end up buying a few of these k-tel’s because of the GREAT music back then and still have all my albums today in 2023
"AVAILABLE AT THESE FINE STORES...THAT ARE ALL NOW OUT OF BUSINESS..."
The Movie Dealers UNFORTUNATELY ☹️,Everything is soooo disgusting now,Foul world we live in now😡,But fortunately we have fredflix to keep the awesome memories alive here🙂
Sears is still around, although they're going to hell in a hand basket because they filed for bankruptcy.
@@gial.1854 DARN RIGHT! TOO BAD THERE AREN'T MORE LIKE HIM. HEY! YOU LIKE 35MM PRINTS? WATCH THE OLD TV SERIES FROM 1968 CALLED N.Y.P.D. AN EPISODE CALLED FAST GUN! IT HAS ALL THE COMMERCIALS ON IT FROM 51 YEARS AGO INCLUDING AN AD FOR "LARK" WITH THE ACTIVATED CHARCOAL FILTER! 🦃
Bowels Barf Ok Bowels Barf,I’ll DEFINITELY check that out,Thank you😃💜
Valerieann Rumpf Almost all the sears stores are no more,Sears like Boston store were the main staples of the malls,Sign of the times,Onlne stores is KILLING the malls now
I was born in 69, so as a kid in the 70’s & a teen in the 80’s: K Tel albums were always what I wanted for my Christmas gift or birthday gift. What great memories, the songs on the albums were always the hot hits at the skating rink. Oh how I miss the 70’s & 80’s! Folks don’t know what they are missing💭😁
I remember K-Tel commercials when I was a kid. It's so funny to hear the announcer sound so excited about the album.
Thanks for posting!
You're welcome.
SCTV always parody that type of announcer perfectly!
@@MJ-dq8ik Dave Thomas as "Harvey K-Tel."
I'm from Germany, I know these commercials only dubbed in German, which makes the over-enthousiastic announcer even more ridiculous. But no, he didn't sound like one of these Nazis from the movies you Americans like so much :-)
... especially when he's announcing someone you've never even heard of... "MELANIEEE!....Alan O'DAAY!!!"
😮-ooooo!! 😂
I was a teen in the mid-70's and had a couple of K-tels that were a key part of my early record collection. One was named "Fantastic" which you can see at the 15:10 mark. I took those and my assorted 45's to a couple of grade school dances, and they let me spin records. My classmates heard it and after learning I had my own mobile record player & speakers I began to get invitations to their birthday parties. I did this all the way through high school. A couple of years later I opened up my own DJ service and was in the business for 10 years. Thanks for posting. Funny how a little thing like a K-tel album can change your life forever! LoL!
I had the Fantastic album as well, I think I was about 13 or 14 years old at the time, I’m 63 now lol.
I swear, while watching this video, for just a moment I was actually back in the early 70's.
I was back in the mid to late 70s! Great time to be a kid!!
Yeah, same here, that happens when you hear something that you haven't heard since the actual time, what a time machine!
Got life on Mars?
All we need now are a couple of Grifter or BMX bikes, hot summer days, bottles of Corona, Jubblies, skateboards, Matchbox cars, Action Man, penny sweets, sterilised milk, metal dustbins, white dog poo, Bazooka gum, lemon sherbets, knocking conkers of trees, apple scrumping, go carts made out of wood & pram wheels...... And we're away!!!
K-Tel certainly deserve a homage- they revolutionised the record scene..before K-Tell you could only buy single collections by session singers not the original artists (at least here in the UK) and an LP only ran about about 24 minutes a side. K-Tell came along and stuffed 10 original tunes on each side and sold it to you for a couple of pounds.Thanks Fred they deserve it.
You''re welcome. K-tel also reminded us of songs we would have otherwise forgotten.
Efferpheasants I seem to remember that you could buy boxes of 45s. Can't remember how many were in the box .
Love the cheesy production quality on these commercials. The 70's was the best decade ever. Thanks for posting. Your channel is awesome.
Thanks, Robert.
@@FredFlix Remember Peter Lemongello at 1:am😨😨
What memories ! I bought a couple of these back in the 70's. These commercials are priceless
In honor of passing of Elvis, I saw a similar one for his album, and on it was his song Good Luck Charm, such warm memories for I remember first seeing that ad at my late-great grandmother's house.😇🥰🥲
Just so you all know, I’m 32 and still seeking out these k-tel records. These songs lived on, and the old vinyls that you’ve all loved and passed on are still being purchased and enjoyed by my generation as well.
Good to know, Kylie Kat.
I can not tell you how much I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!!! Music was so memorable back then!
K tel and Ronco products at Kmart.
Used to see that a lot.
Ronco with Mr. Microphone :)
I bought the KTEL and Ronco albums at Kmart in one town visiting grandparent's for the summer and in the town where I lived it was TG&Y and Value Giant.
"Makes a great Christmas gift!" Fantastic half-hour-long Ronco compilation. ruclips.net/video/WfcIPuvZE9I/видео.html
Had them all
It took a truely sick mind to compile over half an hour of old K-tell adds. ... And an even sicker mind to spend over half an hour watching them. ... ok, i have a sick mind. i loved it. great job. i actually baught most of these albums when i was growing up in the 70s. thanks for the memory blast.
Holy Crap. That was the soundtrack of our youth for millions of us! The memories!!!!!
FredFelix you must be an old soul like me. This is Classic!!!! I love the old stuff.
Check out the rest of my channel, Florida Gator, and you'll see I'm a very old soul!
@@FredFlix But, a very COOL old soul!!!!
K-tel. We used to laugh at these, but K-tel had it going on. You got what was going on with Top 40 on all these albums; a little Rock, a little Soul, a little Disco, a little bit of everything all put together. Fred, you are one of the brightest spots in the RUclips universe. I know it takes a LOT of time to put these together and speaking for myself, I hope you know how much you are appreciated.
What I get from K-Tel collections is the sense of what radio was at the time. The A.M. format ruled through the 70's. FM was just a stereo version of the AM format which was: Play a wide range of music and see what is popular in your market. Not narrowcasting. Black, white, dance, ballads, electric, acoustic, political, romantic, hard driving, mellow, urban, country, on and on. Your best local radio station played it all on one station. These records reflected not just the top ten hits, but the near forgotten other songs that were played.
AM radio used to be something before everyone shifted over to FM.
By 72, 73, F.M. and album cuts were the thing. F.M. played more than just the standard pop hits. They didn't care if it was a B side or not.
Brian Smith But can you imagine in the 90’s playing the Notorious B.I.G. and following it up with Taylor Dayne?
Ellie May's got the moves! You go girl!
Man was I indoctrinated! I knew what song was coming up next on every one of these - lol
I remember so many of these! The spiritual ancestors to Now! That's What I Call Music.
Those albums were worth the money! Thanks for this walk down memory lane!
These songs remind me of a funny story. When I was a kid (back in the early 1970s) my mother would drag us three kids to Gemco to do her grocery shopping. If we behaved, sg4d would buy each of us a 45RPM record which we called 45s at the time. For those of you too young, a 45 record has a single song on each side.
One of our school teachers occasionally allowed us to bring a record to school on Fridays which she played during class. It was a nice treat for the class.
It was also the only time we could legally bring a 45 to school.
Only those my age would understand this.
I luv that. If I behaved at the store,I very often would get a matchbox car
👌
I'm your age...!
The "Now That's What I Call Music" of the 70's.😊
I remember K-Tel to be a barometer of inflation. When K-Tel records first came out they were "3.99, tapes or cassettes 4.99!" things have gotten expensive since! Thanks for posting!
burkeshaw They showed one for $1.99! How cheap was that?!?
@@gomogo2000 1 Pound 99
I remember a lot of these compilation albums from my childhood!!
I wish a lot of these albums could be released on CD!!
Hey I have em all on lp can put em on cds for yu get back jb
I recall, on "22 Fantastic Hits", that one, of the edits, was the final, explanatory verse, of "The Night The Lights Went Out(In Georgia)", by Vicki Lawrence. Fortunately, our local radio station was playing the entire cut; THEN, the song made sense!
That was their catch. Too often they cut the songs down to fit them all on! It didn't help matters the grooves were so thin it was easy to pick up a lot of surface noise unless you turn the treble down.
Don Crabbe: What they cut out was the second refrain; the verse remained. If the song didn't make sense to you, then you weren't listening, as you got this wrong. How do I know? They did the same thing on "Superstars' Greatest Hits". But it was never K-tel's decision to use edited songs. Think about it. It was the original labels who did this, only allowing them to use parts of songs.
And there was no parentheses in the title of Vicki Lawrence's #1 hit.
I finally heard the complete version of Brooks Benton 's song . A Rainy day in Georgia " after hearing the first few verses off one these ads in the 70's a year ago . So many songs I just knew the first few verse thanks to these ads that they played 20 times a week .
Speed Racer it’s “A Rainy NIGHT in Georgia”
I have bought a lot of these at thrift stores over the years. Cool to see the original ads.
I looked forward to the K-Tel compilations every Christmas - the perfect gift! I still have them and my favorite to date is the 24 Electrifying Hits from 1969. I'm lucky enough to have 3000 LPs in my music studio (my husband is an Oldies DJ). One of my favorite things to do as a kid was to go to Bradlee's (I lived in the U.S back then) and get 45 rpm records. I love your videos @FredFlix!
This takes me back! The '70s were so versatile. It was like a time machine into the past.
These are better than I remember-hardly a miss in any of them. Someone in their marketing knew how to put these collections together.
The announcer at 3:45 was the classic K-Tel guy! He had the most enthusiasm, and the best delivery. Dave Thomas from SCTV did a great parody of him!
70's when music still existed.
Omg you said it! "Music" is dead now
@@gregbaldwin5144
Yes it is.
@@gregbaldwin5144 i approve 100% this comment
WOW, cool and FAR OUT, MAN!! Memories....50 years ago was 9 about to turn 10...Friday nights - Brady Bunch and K-Tel Commercials! 10 years later was it Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (or Midnight Special?) and K-Tel Commercials! Thanks for wonderful yesteryear memories, FredFlix...keep 'em coming!
I will. And later it was Night Flight!
An amazing record company that all started in Winnipeg Canada
And there would be at least 2 or 3 Canadian Acts on those albums that would satisfy CanCon requirements.
WOW !!! "FREDFLIX" Thanks for all your work put into your posts ! GREAT STUFF !
You're welcome, Gil.
Dude! We may be soul mates! 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously LOVE you stuff! When I get senile I am gonna have them play your
stuff to keep me sharp!
Love this fun collection. It's funny that they often misspelled the artists' names.
Yes - I noticed the misspelling on "Dianna" Ross in the first ad!
@@SweptAway529 Another one too.
Man, that takes me back.
Avaliable from all these fine stores, none of which exist right now. :)
Man, times have a change Ed.
Back in the days where C.O.D. was an acceptable way of payment. And how can you forget the "7 albums for 1 cent" record clubs, complete with the stamps that you affixed to the mailer telling them which ones to send you? That was the 1970's version of Netflix for LPs & cassettes. Wait, what?! What's a cassette?
Nostalgia....don't leave home without it!!
Can anyone under 30 even grasp the concept of K-Tel Records? We had several!
Notice how they always said "Original Hits, Original Stars"? That's because there were also records floating around on TV that had 3rd party imitators doing all the songs! No wonder they were such a good buy! Does anyone remember THOSE? Show me some commercials for those phonies and you have my attention!
Some record compilations featured the original stars, but they were performing alternate takes of the hit songs.
I swear to god, long about 1976 or so, this compilation album was advertised on TV and had all the hits we listened to back then. One in particular was CW McCall's Convoy. I was all ready to buy this album--as it was super cheap--and my friend told me don't do it. I was like, but it has all the good songs. He was like, those are not the real songs. That is NOT CW McCall singing that, its an imposter! Never did get it. The big clue was when it said "not available in stores". The K-Tels always were. I wish I could remember the name of that album or find that commercial!
Also, I remember some authentic, but non-K-Tel, albums being advertised constantly. One in particular was called "Freedom" and was filled with a bunch of hippyish late 60s/early 70s songs like Hair and One Tin Soldier, and had an illustration of a long haired hippy chic on the cover. I eventually bought a copy when I found it in the 80s at a used record store, just for the hell of it.
I've always wondered how much K-Tel had to pay to use those songs. Or was it a deal in which they would pay the record companies from the album sales? Anybody know?
I remember one of those imitation song records very well, my sister and I would laugh when they advertised it on the TV,as they stated the songs were by "The Originals" that being the name of the band that made them, hahaha, talk about deceptive.We would always wonder who would be stupid enough to be fooled by that. I guess we found out when one of my parents got it for my sister as a birthday present.,not knowing what it was. Even the records that had the real artists on them didn't sound very good,I think they used worn out masters to press them out or something.And all the songs were the very short AM radio versions.
I guess the closest thing that would come to K-Tel these days would be the Now That's What I Call Music! series.
I remember the K-Tell rec adds of the early 70s,the announcer sounding like a hip DJ and the LPs having titles "20 Happening Hits"-good days Auckland New Zealand 2022
The polka album is my favorite. I hope The Shmenge Brothers were on it.
When I used to watch t.v. when I was a kid, K-Tel advertised on every t.v. station, especially shows young people like to watch.
Obvious! Kids still had paper routes and allowances to waste on these!
@epifanio rosales rosales 9 where I grew up, 1/2 way between Buffalo and Toronto!
18:44 Goofy Greats was my favorite K-tel commercial and when I saw it, my ten year old self got all misty ~sniff~
Another AWESOME FredFlix creation! "Where were you 50 years ago?" I was in beautiful Pecatonica, Illinois! Which was a lot like being Opie in Mayberry. It was a great time to be alive, my oldest brother might not have thought so as he was just deployed to a weird place that none of us had ever heard of... Vietnam, he never returned. But, at the time we thought it would be all over in a year or so. (That's what the govt told us, why would they lie?) Our ignorance of the harsh future was a blessing, we were happy in spite of the lean years that were coming. Great video Fred! God Bless.
Great comment, j.d.
j.d. di giusto I was in Hudson, WI
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I've had these three-second snippets and barked band names indelibly stuck in my head for 40 years.
.....AS if it were NIPPER doing the 'BARKING' ; P
All the hits without buying all the records.
Right On!
@@kamuelalee If you don't mind about 50% of the tracks losing at least one verse.
Much like Apple tunes or Spotify.
@@EricIrl Ha! Probably why I actually bought the real tapes -- in my time, cassettes.
@@kamuelalee I've got a number of K-Tel albums on both vinyl and audio cassette. Whatever format they used, some of the tracks got chopped. It was always disappointing to find that the tracks that were shortened generally tended to be the ones you liked.
I bought a couple of those 'albums'. They had poor quality recordings and some songs were edited for length but it didn't matter. The memories of what I did while listening to them is what matters now. Thanks for posting Fred
Sure. Some of the songs were alternate takes as well.
Mahatma Coat Check out Oddity Archive on RUclips & see their take on these "hit records".
Will do thanks. It was an definite oddity of the times.
Exactly Mahatma.... it was and... IS... all about the memories!
@@FredFlix in the early nineties I bought one of these K-tell records second hand, unopened and played it in a good turn table with good stylus and through speakers I couldn't afford in 1973 and it sounded great. Got it stashed somewhere. Thanks for the time travel Fred.
Dang it! You are playing my life on your video. So many and so GREAT. If only I could turn back time. I can't but these song are a time machine.
God only knows what song that first girl was dancing to, it certainly wasn't any of these we heard.
I think she was just a bad dancer, or tired.
"dancing"
Boys are back in town. By Thin Lizzy. A rock classic from the 70',s
The Quaalude Boogie
Apparently, she was told to just move her arms and shift her weight back and forth.
How many of these albums did you own back in the day? And I, too, miss good old Woolworths...
How could I forget that there was a time where Sears sold records?
How can we forget when there was a Sears?
Who's can Forget ALL souvenir's from Sear's store ?
How I could forget my grammar. That should read “when Sears sold records.” My dad bought a copy of the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack there.
Such stylish dancing!🤣
I miss K-tel! I can still remember the 8 tracks and cassette tapes, lol! I even remember having K-tel tapes for my Sony Walkman, ha! They're all obsolete now. 😞 But thanks for the friday night goodies Fred! 😊
Glad you enjoyed it, Curtis!
FredFlix Well of course I did! You're like Joe Montana when it comes to these nostalgic goodies. You're just throwing touchdowns man! 🏈
If only I got paid like Montana. Or even Deiter Brock!
FredFlix I had K-Tel's RAP RAP RAP from 1986...funny thing that I had all the songs on that album on vinyl.
the 8 tracks were more expencive
Thanks for rekindling so many great memories!
These ads were the first place I heard a lot of these songs!
This really took me back. Thanks for posting!
Thank you so much for posting these vids! It brought back some great memories of my childhood!!
Thanks for putting these together. :)
Wow! A blast from the past. Thank you!
FredFlix Thank you for bringing back these memories. You have the best nostalgia channel that I have ever come across.
Many of these commercials were voiced by radio announcers in our local market because our city was home to the K-Tel head office.
Kresge's was sort of like Woolworth's, then they became K-Mart.
Thanks for this clip! Sure brings back wonderful memories!
You're welcome.
Fantastic! Great job compiling all these!!
Thanks, Robert.
I love those LPs. Thank you so much for making and posting this compilation!
You're welcome, Randy.
Love it! Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Great songs - fun commercials! FredFlix I really enjoy your "station."
I loved all those K-Tel commercials. I think I had some of those albums at one point. they were awesome! !!!
All That great music and for such a great price. Those were the days. Thanks for the memories. Once again you have put out another great video
Thanks, Jack.
Thanks for the great memories of ALL these ads. Wow. Time Machine. Loved the editing and narrations.
Thanks, zillabob.
back in the day you could by a album with a couple good songs and 8 crap ones or for a dollar less you could get a K-Tell record with 20 hits ............K-Tel the prehistoric mixtape .
I remember you could buy them off of tv too.
Such great memories. I have several K-tel record albums from the 70s & early 80s that I got at my local WOOLWORTHS'S store back home. I love them all and they still sound great. You can still find these records at ebay.
The last Woolworth stores in the U.S.were shut down in 1997.
The Woolworths store for the record costing one pound and 99 pennies was an Aussie commercial from 1965 before Australia adopted the dollar and cents as their currency. Ktel sold a lot of records here and a lot of gadget crap as well. Woolworths was a department store here ... they still exist... Woolworths is now a massive supermarket chain here and "Big W" is the department store arm.
@ "TheRoyce4" ...That could just be. However I do recall seeing prices in pounds and pence only but my old brain may be a bit wobbly on that point.
@sportster1988 ...Funny, because the nickname for Woolworths in Australia has always been "Woolies" (Aussies love nicknames). I do recall that your original Woolworths stores were called the "F.W. Woolworth Department Stores", especially in NYState.
I never claimed that our Woolworths was connected to F.W, Woolworths BUT they did use similar generic names live "Chevron" (probably as they used similar overseas suppliers).
Wow. Amazing compilation (the video...and some of these albums too, I guess). When I was 6 or 7 years old, these commercials were my intro to popular music. I remember these commercials so well that I still know a lot of these songs by the 3 second clips played here. I could anticipate the next song by memory. Thanks for uploading this.
F'N CLASSIC !!!! My youth, I am now 56 and entertain/sing for my living, MOST of these tunes from the 70's !! Thanks for the great post !!
You're welcome, Nicky.
Wow! What an awesome trip back through my childhood.believe it or not, I actually had most of these albums at one time or another. But you missed one. I kept waiting for "DYNAMIC SOUND" to come up. But an awesome collection, none the less. Thanks.
We lived closer to Woolco(Walmart now),than Woolworths,so bought our crap at Woolco,then soon after Kmart,including K-tel albums.
Ah , memories of the 70s. We had a lot of these K-Tel albums but some parts of the songs were left off of the albums. Thanks Fred for putting together these K-Tel commercials and I remember most of them. My teen age son makes fun of my "boomer memories" and tells me to stop thinking about the past. I said to my son , "One day when I'm gone you'll be able to buy a house or two with all of my "boomer" comic books of the 1960s and 1970s!"
You must have quite a collection, Shawn.
@@FredFlix I have about 10 footlockers , plus 4 suitcases full of old comic books😄
Awesome, great memories being in the single digits during the 1970s and double digits in the 1980s I remember the Commercials and this music was on the radio what a great time to be young happy and free....
In New Zealand we had the Solid Gold series
Wow, K-tel had a lot of albums!!
From 1972 to 1986
I had totally forgotten about K-Tel records. Thanks for posting these commercials. The songs bring back loads of memories...
Grew up with these spots.....miss them and this whole period
'Available at these fine stores.'
Local stations would have to superimpose the names on screen or cut to a slide showing said locations. A lot of other similar ads like ones for "Chia-Pet" and "The Clapper" would have the same deal.
My brother had that K-Tel Dynamite album. I played it all the time. Paper Lace! Terry Jacks! And many more!
Fantastic! Through the 80's into the early 90's I bought a lot of used records, and picked up quite a few K-Tel. Some I saw here, others I didn't.
25 Greatest Polka Hits...and here I was all along thinking the Schmenge Brothers had the market all to themselves! How about some cabbage rolls and coffee? Mmm-mmm good!
This is what I try telling the youth of today about when it came to an actual "hard copy" of an album/song. Well ... song, since not many kids know what an album is. In this day and age you can get virtually any, and I mean any song within seconds off the internet. But, yet, something's been lost. These K-tel commercials created instant fans, thanks to legendary bands, and delivered a record that many of us still have to this day. Found out a few years ago record are making a comeback. Not surprised! Nothing sounds like a real record. Damn, do I sound like an old fuddy-duddy.
You didn't, until you said fuddy-duddy. :-)
Yep, amazingly vinyl still isn't dead. I still have 2 fully working turntables, a belt drive pioneer that turned 40 this year, shes on her 4th belt. & a yamaha DD table from the early 80's.
Dos Man I still have my LP's (I mean every LP) that I ever got, in numeric order, from 1966 to the present. It is a history of my life, in music.
In the last decade, vinyl made a huge comeback, especially with audiophiles and people who were serious about music. Y'all might know them better as "hipsters", but they definitely kept the market going for record players and accessories, that's for sure.
Great stuff! Brings me back to the good old days...
Glad you enjoyed it!
:). And now you can binge on 38 commercials! ALL ON ONE CLIP! FOR FREE! RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS! and I remember these..too.
These ads hit hard, especially with the lack of quality sound. I can't believe I got old.... Where did it all go...
Not sure how I missed this incredible gem all the way from 2017, but, thanks to whoever at YT decided to needed to see this, it's spectacular! And of course, a big shout out to Mr Fred for all the hard work in putting this masterpiece together - GREAT JOB, FRED!
Much appreciated, Nunetc.
YOU CAN TELL IT'S K-TEL! WE YELL!!
So much easier than playing a bunch of 45's
Wow what a beautiful collection!!
A true trip down memory lane here, and I had many of these, and I think “Hit Machine” was my all-time favorite, and I’m so happy to see it included here :-)
Thank you for sharing these!
Absolutely FANTASTIC compilation!!!! I sang along!