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I own fifty or more K-Tel (and Ronco) hits LPs that were issued from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. I almost passed on Music Power recently, since the cover looked so similar to K-Tel’s other offerings from the early 70s, but upon closer examination, I had to admit
Back in the days of vinyl (i.e., “before music was free”), there seemed to be endless time to pore over the contents of a record album. However, truth is we invested the time, since budgetary restraints (and lack of YouTube) made it incumbent upon the listener to really make the
Along with “Hit the Surf” by The Sea Shells (previously celebrated here), “Last Wave of the Day” by The Riptides – from the Mondo Hollywood soundtrack album – is another late surf-era track from 1967 that begs the question: who recorded the last original era surf tune and when? Important
PBS’s excellent 4-hour documentary – Latin Music USA – did a wonderful job of pointing out just how little I knew about Latin American music and its history. Thanks to Will Hermes and his sweeping new history of the NYC music scene during a crucial 5-year period, 1973-1977, I have
I was about to write that the Crystal Corporation (based out of “Nashville-New York”) was a Ronco/K-Tel predecessor who put out a fairly decent repackaging of hits in 1969 entitled, 20 Solid Gold Hits: Other offerings from Crystal But then I noticed that the Peter Max-inspired album design was done
From what I can tell, this might be Ronco’s first hits compilation – Do It Now – from 1970: When is the last time you’ve seen Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles on the same album? Not to mention The Buffalo Springfield. And The Byrds. Interesting to note that the Buffalo
I have an album of repackaged material from the Buddah label — a compilation entitled Heavy Mix — that is one of the odder releases from everyone’s favorite reissue label, Pickwick. I love that the cover art has a cement theme: Even more intriguing than the kitschy cover concept is
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