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Post by at40nut on Sept 21, 2015 12:15:11 GMT -5
My favorite K-Tel album of all time was from 1982, and it was titled "The Heart Of Rock." It basically featured classic rock songs from 1976-1981 with artists such as Styx, REO, Journey, Kansas, Peter Frampton, April Wine etc.. It might be the best K-Tel record ever made IMO!
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Post by darnall42 on Sept 21, 2015 14:20:33 GMT -5
Right on from 1976 must be one of the best k-tel albums released in the states,and hit machine from the same year is a great album too
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Post by atfanmpls on Sept 21, 2015 16:11:03 GMT -5
I still have the cassette for "Full Tilt" in my closet! It's a great mix.. I think "Airwaves" was also good. KTEL is/was not far from where I am sitting right now. I'd love to see more KTEL talk.
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Post by slf on Sept 21, 2015 18:34:42 GMT -5
I still have the cassette for "Full Tilt" in my closet! It's a great mix.. I think "Airwaves" was also good. KTEL is/was not far from where I am sitting right now. I'd love to see more KTEL talk. So does this mean that the K-tel record company was affiliated with a radio station with the call letters KTEL? (Forgive me if it's a widely-known bit of trivia that has eluded me all these years.) |
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Post by 80sat40fan on Sept 21, 2015 19:32:36 GMT -5
I never purchased a K-Tel album but I remember their commercials on TV. If you want to view many of their old commercials, there is a K-Tel Classics YouTube channel with 400+ videos. Link: www.youtube.com/user/KtelClassics |
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Post by ronnie21 on Sept 21, 2015 21:36:53 GMT -5
They were often recorded using cheap vinyl that would always have cracks and pops even when bought brand new sealed..
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Post by vto66 on Sept 21, 2015 21:44:37 GMT -5
The one that had "If Not For You" and "Chick-A-Boom" on it, along with a few other good ones. I believe it was called "Explosive Hits."
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Post by unclesox on Sept 21, 2015 22:26:59 GMT -5
My sister had one called "Fantastic", from around '73. It had "Tie A Yellow Ribbon...", "Morning After", "Rocket Man" and Rod Stewart's "Twisting The Night Away" amongst others.
I had one called "Music Power" from '74-ish. I loved that album. it had "Smoking In The Boy's Room", "Spiders and Snakes", "Two Dived By Love" and a song I've had a very tough time finding over the years, "By The Devil I Was Tempted" by a group called Blue Mink. Loved that song. Finally found it on youtube a few years ago.
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Post by matt on Sept 21, 2015 22:42:31 GMT -5
I still have the cassette for "Full Tilt" in my closet! It's a great mix.. I think "Airwaves" was also good. KTEL is/was not far from where I am sitting right now. I'd love to see more KTEL talk. So does this mean that the K-tel record company was affiliated with a radio station with the call letters KTEL? (Forgive me if it's a widely-known bit of trivia that has eluded me all these years.) No, K-Tel was a company headquartered in Canada that had a few different business lines, one of which was the music compilation albums (I believe they were one of the earlier companies that started issuing compilation albums). |
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Post by atfanmpls on Sept 22, 2015 9:03:09 GMT -5
I found "Wings of Sound" - it is packed with Mellow Gold Era hits - Starts off with "Rock With You" and has "Pina Colada Song". Must have been from the Winter of '82
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Post by purplerush on Sept 22, 2015 11:41:41 GMT -5
I have the Full Tilt and Chart Action 83 vinyl releases. Chart Action includes Little Too Late (Benatar), Shock The Monkey (Gabriel), Lies (Thompson Twins) and I Know There's Something Going On (Frida).
My uncle has the Wings of Sound 8-track, and one other hard rock 8-track that had Head Games and Slow Ride on it.
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Post by adam31 on Sept 22, 2015 15:04:53 GMT -5
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Post by tarobe on Sept 23, 2015 13:53:57 GMT -5
My sister had one called "Fantastic", from around '73. It had "Tie A Yellow Ribbon...", "Morning After", "Rocket Man" and Rod Stewart's "Twisting The Night Away" amongst others. I had one called "Music Power" from '74-ish. I loved that album. it had "Smoking In The Boy's Room", "Spiders and Snakes", "Two Dived By Love" and a song I've had a very tough time finding over the years, "By The Devil I Was Tempted" by a group called Blue Mink. Loved that song. Finally found it on youtube a few years ago. was the very first album I ever owned. It also had "Crocodile Rock," "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia," "Little Willy," "Hocus Pocus" and "The Twelfth of Never," among others. |
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Post by michaelcasselman on Sept 23, 2015 17:18:21 GMT -5
One of my first records was K-Tel's "Night Flight".
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Post by at40nut on Sept 24, 2015 3:49:34 GMT -5
I checked out YouTube on the K-Tel records and I came across another good one that my sister had on cassette called "Rock 80" It had The Ramones "Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio", Ian Gomm's "Hold On" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind."
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