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Anybody besides me old enough to remember K-Tel Records?

Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:42 pm
Posted by Slippy
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Member since Aug 2005
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:42 pm
My dad got me this one when I was 7. It was literally the moment I began to think about music.

Imagine Donny Osmond and Clapton being back to back on the same album. Mind boggling.


Posted by Hangover Haven
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:43 pm to
Do you remember when they sold albums of songs not done by the original artist?

This post was edited on 12/8/20 at 6:44 pm
Posted by Twenty 49
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:44 pm to
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:46 pm to
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Do you remember when they sold albums of songs not done by the original artist?


Yes. My dad said they named the cover group "The Original Artists" to get away with the scam. Likely an urban legend, but funny.
Posted by EastBankTiger
A little west of Hoover Dam
Member since Dec 2003
21325 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:47 pm to
Rick Springfield cracking the K-Tel lineup more than a decade before Jessie's Girl.

ETA: Youtube collection of K-Tel TV ads. LINK
This post was edited on 12/8/20 at 6:56 pm
Posted by Warheel
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:51 pm to
Yes

This spun many times

Posted by Btrtigerfan
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:55 pm to
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:57 pm to
I'm strictly a Frat Rock man myself

Posted by Rebel
Graceland
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 6:58 pm to
I had this one in maybe the 6th or 7th grade.



Don't Bring Me Down Electric Light Orchestra
Dirty White Boy Foreigner
Two Tickets To Paradise Eddie Money
Too Rolling Stoned Robin Trower
(Don't Fear) The Reaper Blue Oyster Cult
Dream Police Cheap Trick
Bad Case Of Loving You Robert Palmer
Renegade Styx
More Than A Feeling Boston
Something's On The Move Jethro Tull
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' Journey
Isn't It Time The Babys
Carry On Wayward Son Kansas
Hold The Line Toto
Posted by UnoDelgado
Covington
Member since Nov 2019
535 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:04 pm to
Freedom Rock......Turn it up man!
Posted by ForLSU56
Rapides Parish
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5582 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:04 pm to
Oh hell yes.... and I'll meet anyone, anytime at Sonic if they say there's better music than the 70's.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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141987 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:05 pm to
quote:

Freedom Rock......Turn it up man!




Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:08 pm to
quote:

I'll meet anyone, anytime at Sonic if they say there's better music than the 70's
'60s had better hit singles

and make it arby's
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:13 pm to
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Rick Springfield cracking the K-Tel lineup more than a decade before Jessie's Girl
He shows up, pre-"JG", in an episode of The Rockford Files

Posted by wrlakers
Member since Sep 2007
5748 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:16 pm to
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Believe in Music


I have the same record plus a couple more.
Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:17 pm to
I believe this was the very last of the genre Livin in the 90s
Posted by Warheel
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:19 pm to
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This post was edited on 10/30/23 at 9:08 pm
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23441 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:19 pm to
quote:



Yes. My dad said they named the cover group "The Original Artists" to get away with the scam. Likely an urban legend, but funny.
Sometimes they sold albums without the original artists, and sometimes they sold albums with songs by the original artists (but not the original recordings).
Posted by Tiger in the Sticks
Back in the Boot
Member since Jan 2007
1432 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 7:20 pm to
Yes, same era as this one. I don’t ever remember buying one, though.
Posted by Stealth Matrix
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7832 posts
Posted on 12/8/20 at 8:53 pm to
Damn...that album holds up well.
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