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K-tel

April 01, 2023

For other uses, see KTEL (disambiguation).

K-tel International Ltd is a Canadian company which formerly specialized in selling consumer products through infomercials and live demonstration. Its products include compilation music albums, including The Super Hits series, The Dynamic Hits series and The Number One Hits series and consumer products, including the Record Selector, the Veg-O-Matic, the Miracle Brush, and the Feather Touch Knife. The company has sold more than half a billion units worldwide.[1]

K-Tel International
TypePrivate
Industryphonographic industry 
Founded1962; 61 years ago (1962)
FounderPhilip Kives
Headquarters
Winnipeg, Manitoba
,
Canada
ProductsTelevision advertising, music
OwnerPhilip Kives
Websitewww.k-tel.com

K-tel is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and has been in business since the late 1960s. It has subsidiaries or other controlled entities in the US and UK.[2][3]

History

K-tel was founded by Philip Kives,[4] a demonstration salesman from Oungre, Saskatchewan.[5] Kives had worked at a number of jobs as a young man, including selling cookware door-to-door and in a department store, and as a pitch-man on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

In 1962 he used his own money and his fast-talking demonstration style to create a new kind of television advertisement in Canada. His first product was a Teflon-coated frying pan.[6] He made a deal with the Eaton's department store to carry the product and with a local television station to air the commercials on a per-inquiry basis with a guaranteed minimum.

Kives bought and marketed a number of products from Samuel Popeil, father of Ronco founder Ron Popeil, including the Dial-O-Matic and Veg-O-Matic food slicers and the Feather Touch Knife. In August 1965, he began selling the Feather Touch Knife in Australia and by Christmas had sold one million knives. Kives later began sourcing his own products, including the Miracle Brush, which sold 28 million units.[7]

K-tel was formally incorporated in 1968, with Kives as CEO.[8] The company operated profitably during the 1970s and expanded both through acquisitions in its core area of business and diversification into other areas. Kives' cousin Raymond worked as president of the K-tel US division from 1967 to 1977, and the K-tel Europe division from 1977 to 1984.

In the five years prior to 1981, K-tel sold more than $150 million of LPs in 34 countries. Its sales increased from $23 million in 1971 to $178 million in 1981.[9] The company diversified, forming subsidiaries in areas such as real estate and oil exploration and also acquired rival Candlelite Records in 1980. K-tel lost $15.9 million[10] when Candlelite's customers refused to pay for their shipments.

The failure of this and several other high-risk ventures forced the publicly traded US entity, K-tel International, to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1984. In 1986, the Bank of Montreal foreclosed on the K-tel Canadian subsidiary at the same time as the US Chapter 11 filing.[11] Advised by Minneapolis-based Sullivan Associates, K-tel negotiated settlements with banks and other preferred and unsecured creditors. Six years later, after all the legal battles, a settlement was reached with the Bank of Montreal, and in 1991, Kives got his Canadian company back.[clarification needed][9]

In 1993, K-tel earned a $2.7 million profit on sales of $56 million,[12] and in 1994, ranked #7 on BusinessWeek's annual Hot Growth List. Mickey Elfenbein, Kives' nephew, was appointed CEO of the K-tel International division in 1993[13] and served until the late 1990s. Elfenbein's son, Mark, produced the company's highest selling music products of the 1990s with the creation of the "Club Mix" series[14] which reached RIAA gold and platinum sales success.[15] K-tel increased its worldwide sales, primarily of music-related products, and had a successful NASDAQ IPO trading under the symbol KTEL.

Music business

In 1966, Philip Kives released the company's first compilation album, a collection of 25 country songs entitled 25 Country Hits.[16] Every copy was sold.[17] The idea of compilation albums was new,[16] and the venture's unexpected success led to further releases. K-Tel's second release, 25 Polka Greats,[18] sold 1.5 million copies in the United States[17]

K-tel recruited Australian Don Reedman (twin brother of Peter Reedman, who was already working in the Australian office) to set up the UK-based division of K-Tel Records in the early 1970s.

The company built the business of releasing compilation albums that combined material from a number of popular artists onto a single theme album using the tag line "20 Original Hits! 20 Original Stars!".[6] The company negotiated directly with artists and labels for the rights to reproduce their original recordings, in the process also securing a long-term asset through adding those recordings to their catalogue.[19]

While most of the compilation albums relied on the pop charts of the day, there were some that focused on hits from a specific genre. Examples include:

  • 20 Power Hits (1973) and Gold Rock (1975), mainly rock-oriented.
  • Super Bad, Super Bad Is Back (both 1973), and Souled Out (1975), soul and R&B hits of the day.
  • Summer Cruisin' (1976) and Rock 'N' Roll Show (1977), mostly 1950s music.
  • Goofy Greats (1975) and Looney Tunes (1976) compiled novelty songs from the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Modern Dance (1981) compiled songs of the burgeoining synth-pop movement
  • Night Moves (1979), a two-record disco dance tutorial with accompanying instruction book featuring Deney Terrio; included one side of disco songs featured in the lessons.

The company also created original records, including the Grammy-nominated Hooked on Classics series of classical recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Films

In 1970 the company briefly began distributing foreign films in the United States, beginning with Mr. Superinvisible. They produced their own Pardon My Blooper film, based on one of their records.

Video games

In the early 1980s, K-tel dabbled in the video game business under the brands K-tel Software, K-Tek Software, K-tel International (UK) Ltd.[20] and Xonox. Although K-tel's other divisions left this market after the crash of 1983, K-tel UK continued to release several games into 1984.[20]

Answering machine recordings

In the late 1980s, K-tel International (UK) Ltd. released[21] several novelty cassette tapes by The Comic Answer Company Ltd.[22][23] Each tape contained several short audio clips which were intended to be played back aloud and re-recorded onto an answering machine. A five-second countdown preceded each message to help customers begin recording at the right moment, and a formal answering machine message in a neutral voice was included at the end of each tape in case they wanted to revert the novelty message.

These recordings included at least five spoken word tapes released in 1988, and made in partnership with ITV Central's popular satirical puppet show Spitting Image. Show regulars including Chris Barrie, Steve Nallon and Nigel Plaskitt participated as voice actors. Examples and the impersonations therein include:

Dot-com bubble's effects on K-tel

In mid-April 1998, during the dot-com bubble, news that the company was expanding its business to the Internet sent the thinly traded stock shooting from about $3 to over $7 in one day (3:1 split adjusted). The short interest of the stock swelled. The price of the stock peaked at about $34[27] in early May, and began to decline, reaching $12 in November and eventually pennies. The sudden upswing was fuelled mainly by a large short squeeze. Traders with short positions either "bought in" or were forced to cover positions at very high prices because of the great losses.[28]

In 2007, Philip Kives took K-tel private again. The company completed a 1-for-5000 reverse split on July 18, 2007, reducing the number of public shareholders to under 300 and allowing the company to delist.[29] It changed its symbol to KTLI and moved from the NASDAQ to the over-the-counter market.

K-tel today

The company now earns profits from its catalogue of Billboard-charting hits, by the original artists, particularly songs from the 1950s through the 1980s. Tracks include "The Twist" by Chubby Checker, "What I Like About You" by The Romantics, "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard, "Surfin’ Bird" by The Trashmen, and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Sammi Smith.

K-tel distributes 200,000 songs worldwide per year on digital platforms, including Amazon, Spotify and iTunes, and licenses songs from its catalogue for use in commercials (e.g., Nike, Fiat, Coke and KFC), films (e.g., Spider-Man, The Dallas Buyers Club and Hotel Transylvania 2) and television programs (e.g., Ray Donovan, Breaking Bad, Californication, Mad Men and Transparent).

K-tel Records has also produced a Canadian children’s music group called Mini Pop Kids, a series of recordings in which a group of Canadian children aged 10 to 14 sing family-friendly pop hits. The series sold millions of copies when it was originally distributed in the 1980s. K-tel brought the series back in Canada, the United States, and Israel as of May 15, 2004, and has continued to produce recordings. The latest album, Mini Pop Kids 18, was released in 2020 in Canada. The series is promoted by a touring group that performs shows across Canada.

K-tel’s company founder Phillip Kives died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on April 27, 2016.

Effect on popular culture

K-tel helped define the way people purchased music in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2013, Forbes wrote a piece on K-tel, entitled "K-Tel Records: The Spotify of the 70s", pointing out that the way people discovered new music in the 70s was through K-tel compilations, in the same way that Spotify playlists are now used to find related artists.[30]

In 2013, Dave Grohl, the front man of Foo Fighters, gave a keynote speech at SXSW, praising K-tel for exposing him to music early in his life, specifically "Frankenstein" by The Edgar Winter Group: "Grohl told the crowd earnestly that the song's inclusion on a 1975 K-tel Records Blockbuster compilation – the first album that he ever owned – was 'the record that changed my life.'"[31]

K-tel infomercials were spoofed on late night television, leading to skits such as Dave Thomas's character Harvey K-Tel pitching Stairways to Heaven and 50 Psalms by 50 Stars on SCTV, Dan Aykroyd’s "Bass-o-Matic" Saturday Night Live performance, and The Simpsons cartoon series, where the fictional B-movie actor Troy McClure promotes widgets on a show called I Can’t Believe They Invented It!.[32]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Philip Kives, K-tel founder and 'wait there's more' infomercial king, dies at 87". The Guardian, 29 April 2016
  2. ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1972-10-28). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ "K-Tel International (UK) Ltd". Discogs. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
  4. ^ "Kives, Philip". The Canadian Encyclopedia. from the original on April 27, 2006.
  5. ^ Fox, Margalit (2016-04-29). "Philip Kives, Pitchman Who Perfected 'As Seen on TV' Infomercials, Dies at 87". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  6. ^ a b . K-tel. Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  7. ^ "Hall of Fame People". Globe and Mail Report on Business. October 31, 2003.
  8. ^ Cross, Alan (2016-04-28). "We Just Lost Another Music-Related Personality: RIP The Founder of K-Tel - Alan Cross". Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  9. ^ a b Newman, Roger (May 1986). "Report on Business". Death [and Rebirth] of a Salesman.
  10. ^ Newman, Roger (May 1986). "Report On Business".
  11. ^ "51st Annual Report of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission" (PDF). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. p. 141.
  12. ^ "K Tel International: Sweet Music For A Frenetic Marketer". BusinessWeek.
  13. ^ "K-Tel Annual Report 10-K". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 1995.
  14. ^ Club Mix '96 Vol. 1 - Various Artists | Credits | AllMusic, retrieved 2020-07-18
  15. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  16. ^ a b "K-Tel: The Secret History". The Independent. January 9, 2005.
  17. ^ a b Schudel, Matt (April 28, 2016). "Phil Kives, K-Tel pitchman 'As Seen on TV' who got America 'Hooked on Classics,' dies at 87". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  18. ^ "When Compilations began with a K"Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (25 November 2000). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 100–. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  19. ^ "The New K-Tel". by Matt Ashare. in SPIN Media LLC (December 1999). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. pp. 76–. ISSN 0886-3032.
  20. ^ a b "Abandonware games published by K-Tel International (UK) Ltd". My Abandonware. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
  21. ^ "K-Tel International (UK) Ltd". Discogs. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
  22. ^ "THE COMIC ANSWER COMPANY LIMITED company key information - UK.GlobalDatabase.com". uk.globaldatabase.com. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
  23. ^ "The Comic Answer Company". Discogs. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
  24. ^ Spitting Image Answer Backs Royal Impressions answering machine cassette, retrieved 2022-07-10
  25. ^ Spitting Image Answer Backs Celebrity Impressions for Your Answerphone, retrieved 2022-07-10
  26. ^ Spitting Image - Celebrity Answerbacks, retrieved 2022-07-10
  27. ^ "K-Tel Fails to Meet Nasdaq Listing Criteria". The New York Times. November 18, 1998.
  28. ^ "What's Making K-Tel Boogie?". BusinessWeek. May 18, 1998.
  29. ^ "SEC: Amendment 4 to Schedule 13e-3". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  30. ^ Catalano, Michele. "K-Tel Records - The Spotify of the 70s". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  31. ^ "Dave Grohl's SXSW Keynote Speech: 'The Musician Comes First'". Rolling Stone. 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  32. ^ "Philip Kives, K-tel's creator, brought loud chutzpah to TV advertising". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-04-30.

External links

  • Official site
  • K-tel International, Inc. Company Profile at biz.yahoo.com
  • NY Times article - K-tel spinoff
  • K-tel discography at Discogs K-Tel Canada
  • K-tel discography at Discogs K-Tel UK and others

See also

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For other uses see KTEL disambiguation K tel International Ltd is a Canadian company which formerly specialized in selling consumer products through infomercials and live demonstration Its products include compilation music albums including The Super Hits series The Dynamic Hits series and The Number One Hits series and consumer products including the Record Selector the Veg O Matic the Miracle Brush and the Feather Touch Knife The company has sold more than half a billion units worldwide 1 K Tel InternationalTypePrivateIndustryphonographic industry Founded1962 61 years ago 1962 FounderPhilip KivesHeadquartersWinnipeg Manitoba CanadaProductsTelevision advertising musicOwnerPhilip KivesWebsitewww wbr k tel wbr comK tel is based in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and has been in business since the late 1960s It has subsidiaries or other controlled entities in the US and UK 2 3 Contents 1 History 2 Music business 3 Films 4 Video games 5 Answering machine recordings 6 Dot com bubble s effects on K tel 7 K tel today 8 Effect on popular culture 9 See also 10 References 11 External links 12 See alsoHistory EditK tel was founded by Philip Kives 4 a demonstration salesman from Oungre Saskatchewan 5 Kives had worked at a number of jobs as a young man including selling cookware door to door and in a department store and as a pitch man on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City In 1962 he used his own money and his fast talking demonstration style to create a new kind of television advertisement in Canada His first product was a Teflon coated frying pan 6 He made a deal with the Eaton s department store to carry the product and with a local television station to air the commercials on a per inquiry basis with a guaranteed minimum Kives bought and marketed a number of products from Samuel Popeil father of Ronco founder Ron Popeil including the Dial O Matic and Veg O Matic food slicers and the Feather Touch Knife In August 1965 he began selling the Feather Touch Knife in Australia and by Christmas had sold one million knives Kives later began sourcing his own products including the Miracle Brush which sold 28 million units 7 K tel was formally incorporated in 1968 with Kives as CEO 8 The company operated profitably during the 1970s and expanded both through acquisitions in its core area of business and diversification into other areas Kives cousin Raymond worked as president of the K tel US division from 1967 to 1977 and the K tel Europe division from 1977 to 1984 In the five years prior to 1981 K tel sold more than 150 million of LPs in 34 countries Its sales increased from 23 million in 1971 to 178 million in 1981 9 The company diversified forming subsidiaries in areas such as real estate and oil exploration and also acquired rival Candlelite Records in 1980 K tel lost 15 9 million 10 when Candlelite s customers refused to pay for their shipments The failure of this and several other high risk ventures forced the publicly traded US entity K tel International to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1984 In 1986 the Bank of Montreal foreclosed on the K tel Canadian subsidiary at the same time as the US Chapter 11 filing 11 Advised by Minneapolis based Sullivan Associates K tel negotiated settlements with banks and other preferred and unsecured creditors Six years later after all the legal battles a settlement was reached with the Bank of Montreal and in 1991 Kives got his Canadian company back clarification needed 9 In 1993 K tel earned a 2 7 million profit on sales of 56 million 12 and in 1994 ranked 7 on BusinessWeek s annual Hot Growth List Mickey Elfenbein Kives nephew was appointed CEO of the K tel International division in 1993 13 and served until the late 1990s Elfenbein s son Mark produced the company s highest selling music products of the 1990s with the creation of the Club Mix series 14 which reached RIAA gold and platinum sales success 15 K tel increased its worldwide sales primarily of music related products and had a successful NASDAQ IPO trading under the symbol KTEL Music business EditIn 1966 Philip Kives released the company s first compilation album a collection of 25 country songs entitled 25 Country Hits 16 Every copy was sold 17 The idea of compilation albums was new 16 and the venture s unexpected success led to further releases K Tel s second release 25 Polka Greats 18 sold 1 5 million copies in the United States 17 K tel recruited Australian Don Reedman twin brother of Peter Reedman who was already working in the Australian office to set up the UK based division of K Tel Records in the early 1970s The company built the business of releasing compilation albums that combined material from a number of popular artists onto a single theme album using the tag line 20 Original Hits 20 Original Stars 6 The company negotiated directly with artists and labels for the rights to reproduce their original recordings in the process also securing a long term asset through adding those recordings to their catalogue 19 While most of the compilation albums relied on the pop charts of the day there were some that focused on hits from a specific genre Examples include 20 Power Hits 1973 and Gold Rock 1975 mainly rock oriented Super Bad Super Bad Is Back both 1973 and Souled Out 1975 soul and R amp B hits of the day Summer Cruisin 1976 and Rock N Roll Show 1977 mostly 1950s music Goofy Greats 1975 and Looney Tunes 1976 compiled novelty songs from the 1950s and 1960s Modern Dance 1981 compiled songs of the burgeoining synth pop movement Night Moves 1979 a two record disco dance tutorial with accompanying instruction book featuring Deney Terrio included one side of disco songs featured in the lessons The company also created original records including the Grammy nominated Hooked on Classics series of classical recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Films EditIn 1970 the company briefly began distributing foreign films in the United States beginning with Mr Superinvisible They produced their own Pardon My Blooper film based on one of their records Video games EditIn the early 1980s K tel dabbled in the video game business under the brands K tel Software K Tek Software K tel International UK Ltd 20 and Xonox Although K tel s other divisions left this market after the crash of 1983 K tel UK continued to release several games into 1984 20 Answering machine recordings EditIn the late 1980s K tel International UK Ltd released 21 several novelty cassette tapes by The Comic Answer Company Ltd 22 23 Each tape contained several short audio clips which were intended to be played back aloud and re recorded onto an answering machine A five second countdown preceded each message to help customers begin recording at the right moment and a formal answering machine message in a neutral voice was included at the end of each tape in case they wanted to revert the novelty message These recordings included at least five spoken word tapes released in 1988 and made in partnership with ITV Central s popular satirical puppet show Spitting Image Show regulars including Chris Barrie Steve Nallon and Nigel Plaskitt participated as voice actors Examples and the impersonations therein include Political Answerbacks OCE 5501 Neil Kinnock Roy Hattersley Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher More Political Answerbacks OCE 5502 Margaret Thatcher Neil Kinnock John Cole Royal Answerbacks OCE 5503 The Queen Mother Prince Charles Prince Andrew 24 Celebrity Answerbacks OCE 5504 David Attenborough David Coleman Bob Geldof Robert Runcie 25 More Celebrity Answerbacks OCE 5505 Barry Norman Robin Day John Gielgud Sean Connery 26 Dot com bubble s effects on K tel EditIn mid April 1998 during the dot com bubble news that the company was expanding its business to the Internet sent the thinly traded stock shooting from about 3 to over 7 in one day 3 1 split adjusted The short interest of the stock swelled The price of the stock peaked at about 34 27 in early May and began to decline reaching 12 in November and eventually pennies The sudden upswing was fuelled mainly by a large short squeeze Traders with short positions either bought in or were forced to cover positions at very high prices because of the great losses 28 In 2007 Philip Kives took K tel private again The company completed a 1 for 5000 reverse split on July 18 2007 reducing the number of public shareholders to under 300 and allowing the company to delist 29 It changed its symbol to KTLI and moved from the NASDAQ to the over the counter market K tel today EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message The company now earns profits from its catalogue of Billboard charting hits by the original artists particularly songs from the 1950s through the 1980s Tracks include The Twist by Chubby Checker What I Like About You by The Romantics Tutti Frutti by Little Richard Surfin Bird by The Trashmen and Help Me Make It Through the Night by Sammi Smith K tel distributes 200 000 songs worldwide per year on digital platforms including Amazon Spotify and iTunes and licenses songs from its catalogue for use in commercials e g Nike Fiat Coke and KFC films e g Spider Man The Dallas Buyers Club and Hotel Transylvania 2 and television programs e g Ray Donovan Breaking Bad Californication Mad Men and Transparent K tel Records has also produced a Canadian children s music group called Mini Pop Kids a series of recordings in which a group of Canadian children aged 10 to 14 sing family friendly pop hits The series sold millions of copies when it was originally distributed in the 1980s K tel brought the series back in Canada the United States and Israel as of May 15 2004 and has continued to produce recordings The latest album Mini Pop Kids 18 was released in 2020 in Canada The series is promoted by a touring group that performs shows across Canada K tel s company founder Phillip Kives died in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada on April 27 2016 Effect on popular culture EditK tel helped define the way people purchased music in the 1960s and 1970s In 2013 Forbes wrote a piece on K tel entitled K Tel Records The Spotify of the 70s pointing out that the way people discovered new music in the 70s was through K tel compilations in the same way that Spotify playlists are now used to find related artists 30 In 2013 Dave Grohl the front man of Foo Fighters gave a keynote speech at SXSW praising K tel for exposing him to music early in his life specifically Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group Grohl told the crowd earnestly that the song s inclusion on a 1975 K tel Records Blockbuster compilation the first album that he ever owned was the record that changed my life 31 K tel infomercials were spoofed on late night television leading to skits such as Dave Thomas s character Harvey K Tel pitching Stairways to Heaven and 50 Psalms by 50 Stars on SCTV Dan Aykroyd s Bass o Matic Saturday Night Live performance and The Simpsons cartoon series where the fictional B movie actor Troy McClure promotes widgets on a show called I Can t Believe They Invented It 32 See also EditArcade Records List of record labelsReferences Edit Philip Kives K tel founder and wait there s more infomercial king dies at 87 The Guardian 29 April 2016 Inc Nielsen Business Media 1972 10 28 Billboard Nielsen Business Media Inc a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a last has generic name help K Tel International UK Ltd Discogs Retrieved 2022 07 10 Kives Philip The Canadian Encyclopedia Archived from the original on April 27 2006 Fox Margalit 2016 04 29 Philip Kives Pitchman Who Perfected As Seen on TV Infomercials Dies at 87 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2016 04 30 a b About K tel International K tel Archived from the original on 2016 05 04 Retrieved 2007 09 03 Hall of Fame People Globe and Mail Report on Business October 31 2003 Cross Alan 2016 04 28 We Just Lost Another Music Related Personality RIP The Founder of K Tel Alan Cross Alan Cross A Journal of Musical Things Retrieved 2022 12 05 a b Newman Roger May 1986 Report on Business Death and Rebirth of a Salesman Newman Roger May 1986 Report On Business 51st Annual Report of the U S Securities and Exchange Commission PDF U S Securities and Exchange Commission p 141 K Tel International Sweet Music For A Frenetic Marketer BusinessWeek K Tel Annual Report 10 K U S Securities and Exchange Commission 1995 Club Mix 96 Vol 1 Various Artists Credits AllMusic retrieved 2020 07 18 Gold amp Platinum RIAA Retrieved 2020 07 18 a b K Tel The Secret History The Independent January 9 2005 a b Schudel Matt April 28 2016 Phil Kives K Tel pitchman As Seen on TV who got America Hooked on Classics dies at 87 The Washington Post Retrieved August 22 2016 When Compilations began with a K Nielsen Business Media Inc 25 November 2000 Billboard Nielsen Business Media Inc pp 100 ISSN 0006 2510 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a last has generic name help The New K Tel by Matt Ashare in SPIN Media LLC December 1999 SPIN SPIN Media LLC pp 76 ISSN 0886 3032 a b Abandonware games published by K Tel International UK Ltd My Abandonware Retrieved 2022 07 10 K Tel International UK Ltd Discogs Retrieved 2022 07 10 THE COMIC ANSWER COMPANY LIMITED company key information UK GlobalDatabase com uk globaldatabase com Retrieved 2022 07 10 The Comic Answer Company Discogs Retrieved 2022 07 10 Spitting Image Answer Backs Royal Impressions answering machine cassette retrieved 2022 07 10 Spitting Image Answer Backs Celebrity Impressions for Your Answerphone retrieved 2022 07 10 Spitting Image Celebrity Answerbacks retrieved 2022 07 10 K Tel Fails to Meet Nasdaq Listing Criteria The New York Times November 18 1998 What s Making K Tel Boogie BusinessWeek May 18 1998 SEC Amendment 4 to Schedule 13e 3 U S Securities and Exchange Commission Catalano Michele K Tel Records The Spotify of the 70s Forbes Retrieved 2016 04 30 Dave Grohl s SXSW Keynote Speech The Musician Comes First Rolling Stone 2013 03 14 Retrieved 2016 04 30 Philip Kives K tel s creator brought loud chutzpah to TV advertising The Globe and Mail Retrieved 2016 04 30 External links EditOfficial site K tel International Inc Company Profile at biz yahoo com NY Times article K tel spinoff K tel discography at Discogs K Tel Canada K tel discography at Discogs K Tel UK and othersSee also EditRonco Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title K tel amp oldid 1147597427, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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