A few years back, I had lunch with Phil Kives, the legendary founder of the schlock-hawking company K-Tel, who passed away in late April, at age eighty-seven. Kives was in Toronto visiting his ...

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 compilations, releasing albums that contained everything from polka hits ...

TORONTO (AP) — Philip Kives, the tireless TV pitchman whose commercials implored viewers to “wait, there’s more!” while selling everything from vegetable slicers to hit music compilations on vinyl, ...

Among the many holiday advertising slogans I have seen and heard over the past five decades, one is particularly memorable (and appropriate here): “Give the gift of music.” Now, that can be done many ...

If you have ever found yourself surfing through television infomercials in the early hours of the morning and wound up with a novelty blender in the mail four to six weeks later, you have Philip Kives ...

Gerald Rea hasn’t seen the new musical “33 1/3 — House of Dreams” commemorating the parade of talent who recorded at Hollywood’s Gold Star studio in the vinyl golden age of the 1950s through mid-’80s.

"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 ...

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