geezer
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Post by geezer on Apr 9, 2017 10:15:47 GMT
When i was a young teen, a lot of my 1st experience with "new" music were some of those K-Tel collections. I think the one I had was called "Mind Benders".
Like 12 tracks on each side, everything from Olivia Newton-John to James Brown to Kiss on the same record?
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Post by geewizzz on Apr 9, 2017 10:36:29 GMT
My older brother bought a couple of those, which I now have.
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Post by movielover on Apr 9, 2017 14:51:47 GMT
I did as a kid in 77 or 78.
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Apr 9, 2017 15:01:09 GMT
Yes! I bought this one back in 1981:  My older siblings owned more than a few K-Tel compilations. I used to listen to them all the time. |
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Post by Wesley Crusher on Apr 9, 2017 15:13:54 GMT
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Post by movielover on Apr 9, 2017 15:28:19 GMT
Pretty sure I had this one:  |
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Post by movielover on Apr 9, 2017 15:30:08 GMT
I definitely had this one.  |
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Post by NJtoTX on Apr 9, 2017 16:59:03 GMT
How about this 39 cent album?  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 10, 2017 1:44:26 GMT
I sometimes buy them from charity shops as a retro collectable.
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geezer
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Post by geezer on Apr 10, 2017 4:35:54 GMT
I love how they mixed all these different genres together on one record. Some were terrible, but some opened me up to listening to different types of music!
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Apr 13, 2017 19:15:21 GMT
We did. In fact, the first ever cassette I got was "Rock '83".
I still have the vinyl of "Rock '84".
A couple of years ago, there was a special that aired on CTV in Canada. It featured K-Tel and ALL of its products -- not just vinyl and cassettes.
Come to find out...the albums were produced on cheap vinyl, so they wore out really easily.
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Apr 13, 2017 21:28:40 GMT
Come to find out...the albums were produced on cheap vinyl, so they wore out really easily. And they often crammed up to 20 songs on one album. Hence, the sound quality wasn't always the greatest. |
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Post by maxwellperfect on Apr 13, 2017 21:50:44 GMT
I have this one.  |
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Post by Sulla on Apr 14, 2017 2:36:17 GMT
I bought one of those in the early 70s, but I don't think it was a K-Tel album. It introduced me to Deep Purple, Stephen Stills and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
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