People have been hoping for a K-tel Komeback for years, many not knowing that the company still exists and owns a substantial library of re-recorded songs by the original vocalists. Longtime supporter and friend of the Kollection, Mark first jokingly mentioned "a special 180 gram MFSL red vinyl re-release of "Block Buster" on Record Store Day (4/18/15). MSRP: $49.99" back in March 2015. HERC seconded the motion in all sincerity with a comment of his own:
"From your your lips to the ears of the record labels. Over-priced audiophile pressings of the original K-Tel records would be unfreakingbelievably awesome!"
Brandon Hixson picked up the ball and ran a different way with it the following month, creating three K-Tel albums that "should have been" and sharing them on his YouTube channel. I wrote about them in a post which has since become the Number One Most Spammed and Botted Post here at the K-Tel Kollection. Since then, he has posted two additional quasi-K-Tel albums:
Most recently, in a post on his The Vinyl Voyage site about Columbia House happenings and developments, Bruce David Janu took it a step further and posited this question:
"If you could put together the best of K-Tel in one limited edition collector's vinyl, what would you include?"
Time Machine is his answer to his own question. A "best of" featuring his fourteen favorite songs from 1970-1979 and featured on previous K-tel albums. BDJ even created beautiful artwork for his dream album - dig those classic K-Tel logos blended into the background on the cover. As a special courtesy to BDJ, we're featuring his album today, along with a custom Spotify playlist and running it through the K-Tel Scale™.
TIME MACHINE [2016]
| 31.21 | |||||||
| Billboard Top 40s | ||||||||
| Pop | COU | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| Sky High | Jigsaw | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Please Come To Boston | Dave Loggins | 5 | 1 | 7 | (46) | |||
| Stuck In The Middle With You | Stealer's Wheel | 6 | 13 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Walking In Rhythm | The Blackbyrds | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | |||
| Chevy Van | Sammy Johns | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Living Next Door to Alice | Smokie | 25 | 24 | 18 | ||||
| Give Me Just A Little More Time | Chairmen Of The Board | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | |||
| Sweet City Woman | Stampeders | 8 | 5 | 7 | 2 | |||
| I'm Not In Love | 10cc | 2 | 10 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Jackie Blue | Ozark Mountain Daredevils | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Rings | Lobo | (43) | 8 | 37 | ||||
| Please Don't Go | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1 | 27 | 3 | 5 | |||
| Sylvia's Mother | Dr. Hook | 5 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Here Comes The Night | Nick Gilder | (44) | 39 | |||||
That's awesome, Herc. Thanks for putting it through the scale. Not a bad rating, eh? Most of those songs bring back childhood memories for me which is why I included them on this album. Love your site, by the way. Great hearing those songs, too!
ReplyDeleteFirst, thanks to you for all of your efforts in preserving K-Tel's wonderful musical heritage and history.
DeleteSecond, not a bad rating at all, Sir! Very respectable!
Your song choice was very good on this one - I thought Nick Gilder's mama and I were the only ones who liked "Here Comes The Night" and you know I love me some "Sky High"
Think you can come up with another long lost K-Tel compilation?
Let me know and I'll feature it here, buddy.
If full-length hits were used instead of the chopped up ones the labels allowed K-tel to use, each 20 or 22 song collection would need a two-record set for an "audiophile" release.
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