If you grew up in the 1970s or 1980s, you probably owned at least one (if not many) K-Tel records. K-Tel were synonymous with compilations, releasing albums that contained everything from polka hits ...

Among the many holiday advertising slogans I have seen and heard over the past five decades, one is particularly memorable (and appropriate here): “Give the gift of music.” Now, that can be done many ...

TORONTO — Philip Kives, the tireless TV pitchman whose commercials implored viewers to “wait, there’s more!” while selling everything from vegetable slicers to hit music compilations on vinyl, has ...

Philip Kives, in word and deed as much as anyone, reminded millions of us that life is full of unimagined possibilities yet ultimately also finite. In other words, wait, there’s more. And quantities ...

With the loss already this year of so many big musical names, I don’t want one to get lost amid the closing numbers. Headliners include Prince, Merle Haggard, Paul Kantner, David Bowie and Glenn Frey.

In 1962, Phil Kives went on television, doing a live, five-minute demonstration of a skillet. He fried an egg, and when he was done, the egg slid right out of the pan, thanks to a new nonstick surface ...