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Today, at 12 noon begins the Independence Day K-Tel marathon. 10 Classic K-tel albums from the 70s played in a row!

What better way to celebrate Independence Day than with some classic K-Tel albums from the 70s? Join us starting at 12 pm (central) for a marathon of 10 classic K-Tel albums played in a row. Only on Vinyl Voyage Radio. Here are the albums we will play: 1. Starflight, 1979 2. Blockbuster, 1976 3. 22 Explosive hits, 1972 4. Superbad, 1973 5. Dynamite, 1974 6. Star Power, 1978 7. Music Express, 1975 8. Disco Mania, 1975 9. Music Machine, 1977 10. Power House, 1976

Okay, I am little behind in getting new episodes of AiV on the air. But today is the day! Episode 38 features the great K-Tel compilation from 1972 entitled,  20 Electrifying Hits . This album features some great tracks from BJ Thomas, James Brown, Beverly Bremers, Honey Cone, Sly and the Family Stone and many, many more. A great collection of early 70s hits. The album also contained a bonus album: 20 Hits of the 60s . We'll be spinning that album next month on Adventures in Vinyl . New episodes of Adventures in Vinyl can be heard on Vinyl Voyage Radio at the following times (central): Saturday 12:30 pm Sunday 4:00 pm Wednesday 2:00 am You can also listen tot his episode and all past episodes of Adventures in Vinyl on demand via Mixcloud .

This month on Adventures in Vinyl , we will be taking a trip back to 1979 for K-Tel Records'  Together . This collection of soft rock hits features Firefall, Ambrosia, Melissa Manchester, Heatwave and many more! Plus, as always, we'll go through the major events of the year and list the top 10 songs of 1979.  Movie clip Madness features a great movie from 1979 about a horse. Here is the commercial for the album which was played on television back in 1979: The new episode Adventures in Vinyl can be heard on at the following times (central): Saturday 1:00 pm Sunday 4:00 pm Wednesday 2:00 am Retro Repeat episodes can be heard at 1:30 pm on Tuesdays and 10:00 am on Thursdays. Don't forget, you can always listen to every episode on MixCloud .

A K-Tel aficionado who goes by the name of HERC runs a site called K-Tel Kollection 1973-1983 . On this site he evaluates K-Tel albums based on his proprietary "K-Tel Scale." This scale is pretty cool and it produces a score that measures how good a K-Tel album was. The scale is based on numerous charts and each song is evaluated based on its chart placement and the formula then kicks out a number. The higher the number, the better the K-Tel album. I've been reading his site for awhile now. It is truly fascinating and it is very apparent that HERC knows his K-Tel. I recently mentioned his site in a post about the K-Tel album, Horizons . Back in January, I posited the question:  If you could put together the best of K-Tel in one limited edition collector's vinyl, what would you include? My choice would be an album I called Time Machine. This album features 14 of my favorite songs from previous K-Tel albums.  I even designed a cover: A couple of weeks ago,...

You may not be able to carry your record player with you, but now you can take Vinyl Voyage wherever you go! We are pleased to announce that Vinyl Voyage has a new app for your smartphone. Now you can listen in the car, on a walk, at the gym--wherever life takes you. Go to your favorite app store and download now!  These apps are completely free .

Since Live365 closed its doors, we switched over to Radionomy, which offers streaming services and pays royalties much the same way that Live365 operated. Located in Belgium, this service seemed to be what we needed here at Vinyl Voyage, as paying for royalties ourselves would be too cost prohibitive. For the last 23 days, we have been doing quite well, actually. We've had listeners all over the world and have boosted our average daily listening hours to just around 100--something we never achieved with Live365. Not bad for three weeks. Commercials, inserted by Radionomy, have been regularly playing twice every hour. Things seemed good. Too good, it appears. Today, all of the Radionomy servers went down worldwide. Technical problems or something more? It just so happens that Radionomy was sued today by Sony Music and other labels for copyright infringement. According to the lawsuit, Radionomy has not been paying the necessary royalties. No word from Radionomy, however....