Marroni that sucks big time how hippacritical,we had Woolworths,Safeway and Coles in Australia Coles was the go to for diner and variety in its stores and they were very tolerant of everybody.Woolworths and Safeway merged to Woolworths,and they suck today
contraryMV I keep buying them from eBay and flea markets, Amassed over 120 upto now, most are pennies nobody wants them, which makes them even better to collect
@@Timemachine74 the older 70s ones were really squashed together and sacrificed audio quality and sometimes parts of the songs. Around 1979 however ktel changed and started offering less songs per side and fixed up their sound quality. I had quite a few of the 80s double lps and it was full songs in album quality. I cant do christmas without the hit list albums
Because the very concept of "hits" belonged even then to an earlier age-- Top 40 AM radio. The cool sounds were albums, on FM, a COMPLETELY different vibe (culture), and way cooler than over-commercialized AM hit-driven radio (culture).
The Movie Dealers UNFORTUNATELY ☹️,Everything is soooo disgusting now,Foul world we live in now😡,But fortunately we have fredflix to keep the awesome memories alive here🙂
@@gial.1854 DARN RIGHT! TOO BAD THERE AREN'T MORE LIKE HIM. HEY! YOU LIKE 35MM PRINTS? WATCH THE OLD TV SERIES FROM 1968 CALLED N.Y.P.D. AN EPISODE CALLED FAST GUN! IT HAS ALL THE COMMERCIALS ON IT FROM 51 YEARS AGO INCLUDING AN AD FOR "LARK" WITH THE ACTIVATED CHARCOAL FILTER! 🦃
Valerieann Rumpf Almost all the sears stores are no more,Sears like Boston store were the main staples of the malls,Sign of the times,Onlne stores is KILLING the malls now
I'm from Germany, I know these commercials only dubbed in German, which makes the over-enthousiastic announcer even more ridiculous. But no, he didn't sound like one of these Nazis from the movies you Americans like so much :-)
All we need now are a couple of Grifter or BMX bikes, hot summer days, bottles of Corona, Jubblies, skateboards, Matchbox cars, Action Man, penny sweets, sterilised milk, metal dustbins, white dog poo, Bazooka gum, lemon sherbets, knocking conkers of trees, apple scrumping, go carts made out of wood & pram wheels...... And we're away!!!
I bought the KTEL and Ronco albums at Kmart in one town visiting grandparent's for the summer and in the town where I lived it was TG&Y and Value Giant.
K-Tel certainly deserve a homage- they revolutionised the record scene..before K-Tell you could only buy single collections by session singers not the original artists (at least here in the UK) and an LP only ran about about 24 minutes a side. K-Tell came along and stuffed 10 original tunes on each side and sold it to you for a couple of pounds.Thanks Fred they deserve it.
I was a teen in the mid-70's and had a couple of K-tels that were a key part of my early record collection. One was named "Fantastic" which you can see at the 15:10 mark. I took those and my assorted 45's to a couple of grade school dances, and they let me spin records. My classmates heard it and after learning I had my own mobile record player & speakers I began to get invitations to their birthday parties. I did this all the way through high school. A couple of years later I opened up my own DJ service and was in the business for 10 years. Thanks for posting. Funny how a little thing like a K-tel album can change your life forever! LoL!
In honor of passing of Elvis, I saw a similar one for his album, and on it was his song Good Luck Charm, such warm memories for I remember first seeing that ad at my late-great grandmother's house.😇🥰🥲
I was born in 69, so as a kid in the 70’s & a teen in the 80’s: K Tel albums were always what I wanted for my Christmas gift or birthday gift. What great memories, the songs on the albums were always the hot hits at the skating rink. Oh how I miss the 70’s & 80’s! Folks don’t know what they are missing💭😁
What I get from K-Tel collections is the sense of what radio was at the time. The A.M. format ruled through the 70's. FM was just a stereo version of the AM format which was: Play a wide range of music and see what is popular in your market. Not narrowcasting. Black, white, dance, ballads, electric, acoustic, political, romantic, hard driving, mellow, urban, country, on and on. Your best local radio station played it all on one station. These records reflected not just the top ten hits, but the near forgotten other songs that were played.
@@kamuelalee I've got a number of K-Tel albums on both vinyl and audio cassette. Whatever format they used, some of the tracks got chopped. It was always disappointing to find that the tracks that were shortened generally tended to be the ones you liked.
These songs remind me of a funny story. When I was a kid (back in the early 1970s) my mother would drag us three kids to Gemco to do her grocery shopping. If we behaved, sg4d would buy each of us a 45RPM record which we called 45s at the time. For those of you too young, a 45 record has a single song on each side. One of our school teachers occasionally allowed us to bring a record to school on Fridays which she played during class. It was a nice treat for the class. It was also the only time we could legally bring a 45 to school. Only those my age would understand this.
I recall, on "22 Fantastic Hits", that one, of the edits, was the final, explanatory verse, of "The Night The Lights Went Out(In Georgia)", by Vicki Lawrence. Fortunately, our local radio station was playing the entire cut; THEN, the song made sense!
That was their catch. Too often they cut the songs down to fit them all on! It didn't help matters the grooves were so thin it was easy to pick up a lot of surface noise unless you turn the treble down.
Don Crabbe: What they cut out was the second refrain; the verse remained. If the song didn't make sense to you, then you weren't listening, as you got this wrong. How do I know? They did the same thing on "Superstars' Greatest Hits". But it was never K-tel's decision to use edited songs. Think about it. It was the original labels who did this, only allowing them to use parts of songs. And there was no parentheses in the title of Vicki Lawrence's #1 hit.
It took a truely sick mind to compile over half an hour of old K-tell adds. ... And an even sicker mind to spend over half an hour watching them. ... ok, i have a sick mind. i loved it. great job. i actually baught most of these albums when i was growing up in the 70s. thanks for the memory blast.
K-tel. We used to laugh at these, but K-tel had it going on. You got what was going on with Top 40 on all these albums; a little Rock, a little Soul, a little Disco, a little bit of everything all put together. Fred, you are one of the brightest spots in the RU-vid universe. I know it takes a LOT of time to put these together and speaking for myself, I hope you know how much you are appreciated.
Just so you all know, I’m 32 and still seeking out these k-tel records. These songs lived on, and the old vinyls that you’ve all loved and passed on are still being purchased and enjoyed by my generation as well.
I finally heard the complete version of Brooks Benton 's song . A Rainy day in Georgia " after hearing the first few verses off one these ads in the 70's a year ago . So many songs I just knew the first few verse thanks to these ads that they played 20 times a week .
I remember K-Tel to be a barometer of inflation. When K-Tel records first came out they were "3.99, tapes or cassettes 4.99!" things have gotten expensive since! Thanks for posting!
WOW, cool and FAR OUT, MAN!! Memories....50 years ago was 9 about to turn 10...Friday nights - Brady Bunch and K-Tel Commercials! 10 years later was it Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (or Midnight Special?) and K-Tel Commercials! Thanks for wonderful yesteryear memories, FredFlix...keep 'em coming!
Back in the days where C.O.D. was an acceptable way of payment. And how can you forget the "7 albums for 1 cent" record clubs, complete with the stamps that you affixed to the mailer telling them which ones to send you? That was the 1970's version of Netflix for LPs & cassettes. Wait, what?! What's a cassette?
Local stations would have to superimpose the names on screen or cut to a slide showing said locations. A lot of other similar ads like ones for "Chia-Pet" and "The Clapper" would have the same deal.
I looked forward to the K-Tel compilations every Christmas - the perfect gift! I still have them and my favorite to date is the 24 Electrifying Hits from 1969. I'm lucky enough to have 3000 LPs in my music studio (my husband is an Oldies DJ). One of my favorite things to do as a kid was to go to Bradlee's (I lived in the U.S back then) and get 45 rpm records. I love your videos @FredFlix!
Can anyone under 30 even grasp the concept of K-Tel Records? We had several! Notice how they always said "Original Hits, Original Stars"? That's because there were also records floating around on TV that had 3rd party imitators doing all the songs! No wonder they were such a good buy! Does anyone remember THOSE? Show me some commercials for those phonies and you have my attention!
I swear to god, long about 1976 or so, this compilation album was advertised on TV and had all the hits we listened to back then. One in particular was CW McCall's Convoy. I was all ready to buy this album--as it was super cheap--and my friend told me don't do it. I was like, but it has all the good songs. He was like, those are not the real songs. That is NOT CW McCall singing that, its an imposter! Never did get it. The big clue was when it said "not available in stores". The K-Tels always were. I wish I could remember the name of that album or find that commercial! Also, I remember some authentic, but non-K-Tel, albums being advertised constantly. One in particular was called "Freedom" and was filled with a bunch of hippyish late 60s/early 70s songs like Hair and One Tin Soldier, and had an illustration of a long haired hippy chic on the cover. I eventually bought a copy when I found it in the 80s at a used record store, just for the hell of it.
I've always wondered how much K-Tel had to pay to use those songs. Or was it a deal in which they would pay the record companies from the album sales? Anybody know?
I remember one of those imitation song records very well, my sister and I would laugh when they advertised it on the TV,as they stated the songs were by "The Originals" that being the name of the band that made them, hahaha, talk about deceptive.We would always wonder who would be stupid enough to be fooled by that. I guess we found out when one of my parents got it for my sister as a birthday present.,not knowing what it was. Even the records that had the real artists on them didn't sound very good,I think they used worn out masters to press them out or something.And all the songs were the very short AM radio versions.
I bought a couple of those 'albums'. They had poor quality recordings and some songs were edited for length but it didn't matter. The memories of what I did while listening to them is what matters now. Thanks for posting Fred
@@FredFlix in the early nineties I bought one of these K-tell records second hand, unopened and played it in a good turn table with good stylus and through speakers I couldn't afford in 1973 and it sounded great. Got it stashed somewhere. Thanks for the time travel Fred.
Another AWESOME FredFlix creation! "Where were you 50 years ago?" I was in beautiful Pecatonica, Illinois! Which was a lot like being Opie in Mayberry. It was a great time to be alive, my oldest brother might not have thought so as he was just deployed to a weird place that none of us had ever heard of... Vietnam, he never returned. But, at the time we thought it would be all over in a year or so. (That's what the govt told us, why would they lie?) Our ignorance of the harsh future was a blessing, we were happy in spite of the lean years that were coming. Great video Fred! God Bless.
I miss K-tel! I can still remember the 8 tracks and cassette tapes, lol! I even remember having K-tel tapes for my Sony Walkman, ha! They're all obsolete now. 😞 But thanks for the friday night goodies Fred! 😊
25 Greatest Polka Hits...and here I was all along thinking the Schmenge Brothers had the market all to themselves! How about some cabbage rolls and coffee? Mmm-mmm good!
I remember the K-Tell rec adds of the early 70s,the announcer sounding like a hip DJ and the LPs having titles "20 Happening Hits"-good days Auckland New Zealand 2022
back in the day you could by a album with a couple good songs and 8 crap ones or for a dollar less you could get a K-Tell record with 20 hits ............K-Tel the prehistoric mixtape .
Such great memories. I have several K-tel record albums from the 70s & early 80s that I got at my local WOOLWORTHS'S store back home. I love them all and they still sound great. You can still find these records at ebay.
The Woolworths store for the record costing one pound and 99 pennies was an Aussie commercial from 1965 before Australia adopted the dollar and cents as their currency. Ktel sold a lot of records here and a lot of gadget crap as well. Woolworths was a department store here ... they still exist... Woolworths is now a massive supermarket chain here and "Big W" is the department store arm.
@sportster1988 ...Funny, because the nickname for Woolworths in Australia has always been "Woolies" (Aussies love nicknames). I do recall that your original Woolworths stores were called the "F.W. Woolworth Department Stores", especially in NYState.
I never claimed that our Woolworths was connected to F.W, Woolworths BUT they did use similar generic names live "Chevron" (probably as they used similar overseas suppliers).
Wow! What an awesome trip back through my childhood.believe it or not, I actually had most of these albums at one time or another. But you missed one. I kept waiting for "DYNAMIC SOUND" to come up. But an awesome collection, none the less. Thanks.
This is what I try telling the youth of today about when it came to an actual "hard copy" of an album/song. Well ... song, since not many kids know what an album is. In this day and age you can get virtually any, and I mean any song within seconds off the internet. But, yet, something's been lost. These K-tel commercials created instant fans, thanks to legendary bands, and delivered a record that many of us still have to this day. Found out a few years ago record are making a comeback. Not surprised! Nothing sounds like a real record. Damn, do I sound like an old fuddy-duddy.
Yep, amazingly vinyl still isn't dead. I still have 2 fully working turntables, a belt drive pioneer that turned 40 this year, shes on her 4th belt. & a yamaha DD table from the early 80's.
In the last decade, vinyl made a huge comeback, especially with audiophiles and people who were serious about music. Y'all might know them better as "hipsters", but they definitely kept the market going for record players and accessories, that's for sure.
My best friend and I made a habit of buying every K-TEL and Ronco album in the 70's, ....have many of these but most of these earlier ones with homage to the 60's and 50's I don't recall, ....just wondering if some of these complilations were made later, as the price on them doesn't reflect the time period of the music. Regardless, I still have them in my collection. Thanks for the good memories,....nothing like skating backwards.
I still have all of my ktel cassettes that I bought back in the day&these commercials...instant time machine...thank you for reminding me I'm old...lol
I always wondered who the great singer Minnie Moore was. She was on almost every record and they still announce her for the Grammys and other awards shows. But seriously I still have a couple of the 'sounds like- insert artists name'... that I bought in the 70s at the local discount store for $1-2. Usually bought them to laugh at how truly awful they were.