The K-Tel Classics
August 15th 2011 00:46
Remember the ads? K-Tel classics!
Bringing music to the masses between 1971 and 1985, K-Tel was a blessing to teenagers everywhere with more licenced hits than the mafia.
Featuring almost an unhealthy dose of K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor and Disco Tex, K-Tel seemed to dominate the compilation album market.
Whatever can be said about the quality of their selections, cover art, or even the vinyl they recorded on, K-Tel has remarkable name-recognition among those of us who grew up in the Super70s.
Of course, few of us who were kids in the 70s actually went out and purchased albums by the artists featured – $6.99 was an impossible sum to raise, let alone part with – and so were content to wait for the compilations to roll our way each birthday and xmas.
With album releases such as Bobby Dazzler, Unreal, Outa Sight and the mainstay of the K-Tel marketing campaign Explosive Hits 75, 76, 77, 78 . . . yaddah yaddah - it was no suprise that songs such as Daytona Demon by Suzie Quatro, The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace and Rock Your Baby from George McCrae were the mainstay of our growing up.
Why, even the album covers were every adoloscent boys dream with Scorcher, and Ripper gracing the shelves of just about every young man aged from 12 through to 18.
Naturally, compared with today's quality digital offerings the sound quality on these things were pretty lousy and 30 minutes a side on vinyl leads to very low fidelity - but hey - it was the 70s people and vinyl was king - so suck it up.
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