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.

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 ...

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 ...