There's a picture of me somewhere in my parents' basement. It's Christmas morning. I'm about eleven years old and I'm holding two K-Tel records, beaming like I just received the greatest gifts ever.

Anyone who grew up from the late ’60s through to the early ’80s will be familiar with K-tel Records, the Winnipeg-based label founded by Phil Kives, a travelling salesman from Oungre, Sask., (current ...

A few years back, I had lunch with Phil Kives, the legendary founder of the schlock-hawking company K-Tel, who passed away in late April, at age eighty-seven. Kives was in Toronto visiting his ...

If you have ever found yourself surfing through television infomercials in the early hours of the morning and wound up with a novelty blender in the mail four to six weeks later, you have Philip Kives ...