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K-Tel's Place in the Music Industry: Where Have All the One-Hit Wonders Gone?

Larry Jaffee, Popular Music and Society, 1986

COMEDIAN ROBERT KLEIN has a story about how you can call up K-tel and order every record ever made. A forty-foot trailer will drive up to your house and unload the truck's contents for the next three days.

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