WASHINGTON – Searching for songs you loved, but don’t have on your playlist is one of the joys of the Internet, especially music streaming services, including Spotify and Rdio. Long before the ability ...

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 ...

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.

A poor Saskatchewan farm boy would grow up to change the music industry for decades. During the first half of the 20th century and the Great Depression, Philip Kives grew up in the hamlet of Oungre, ...

"But wait, there's more!" That's a now-classic line used in infomercials, but it was completely innovative when first used in the '70s by Philip Kives, the founder of K-Tel. K-Tel populated '70s and ...

Anyone who grew up from the late ’60s through to the early ’80s will be familiar with K-tel Records, the Winnipeg-based label founded by Phil Kives, a travelling salesman from Oungre, Sask., (current ...

Infomercial pioneer Phillip Kives, founder of TV channel and sometime record label K-tel International, died on Wednesday, according to the Winnipeg Free Press. He was 87. Kives and his brother ...

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 ...

Philip Kives, master of the infomercial, has died. He was 87. With gadgets like the Miracle Brush and — wait, there's more! — the Veg-O-Matic food slicer, Kives started reeling in customers when he ...