In addition to many of those K-Tel albums filling up
my record shelves are those Ronco releases as well!  I
can never get rid of them - no matter how scratched up
or cue burned they become.  There are often cuts on
these puppies that I can't find anywhere on CD.  On
Ronco's "Hit Explosion" is one of my Holy Grail
searches - "The Princess And The Punk" by Barry Mann. 
I've tried to fix it in Cool Edit and other editing
software...but I really need a better copy.  Everytime
a Barry Mann compilation comes out - this song never
makes the cut.  I remember posting on this list
sometime around 1997 if anyone knew where I could find
a copy.  The search continues...

Out here in Hawaii we got a lot of Canadian K-Tels in
Woolworths, Ben Franklin and Sears.  Did anyone else
have that happen in your local record stores back
then?  

I was cracking up a few months ago because I came
across an old radio aircheck that had K-Tel
commercials.  I had forgotten that in addition to the
television ads that there were highly produced radio
ads as well.  Of course, all filled up with three
second snippets of what was on the record.

No kidding about the short versions of hit singles! 
To this day, whenever I have to edit a song for
airplay, I always mutter "another K-Tel edit".  No one
on the staff can relate.

Aloha,
Michael McCartney
KEAO / KONI / KPMW

now playing: "Jennifer Smiles" - Chewy Marble


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