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.

A poor Saskatchewan farm boy would grow up to change the music industry for decades. During the first half of the 20th century and the Great Depression, Philip Kives grew up in the hamlet of Oungre, ...

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 ...

"But wait, there's more!" That's a now-classic line used in infomercials, but it was completely innovative when first used in the '70s by Philip Kives, the founder of K-Tel. K-Tel populated '70s and ...

Phil Kives, a Winnipeg businessman who made one of television's very first infomercials and founded Plymouth-based K-Tel International Inc., has died at age 87. The Winnipeg Free Press has an obituary ...

TORONTO (AP) — 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, ...

The name of his company should be familiar to anyone who watched late-night television in the 1960s or 1970s and succumbed to the impulse to purchase a lint brush, vegetable slicer or greatest-hits ...

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 ...

John Kasich came to Ohio as a young man, and — discovering it to be a paradise on earth — never left. He served in the Ohio Senate, then almost two decades in the U.S. House of Representatives ...