Episode 68: K-Tel Records and the Dionne Quintuplets!
Madness Madness!
English - September 15, 2022 22:00 - 2 hours - 28.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsTrue Crime Comedy cults scams humor culture history crime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's easy to forget the days before fertility treatments that yielded between four and thirty babies per pregnancy. It's even easier to forget 1934, since most of us weren't born yet. You know who WAS born in 1934? The Dionne Quintuplets! As was the case for a great many Depression-era babies, things didn't go as well as they could have. Speaking of the number five and the year 1934, a guy named Philip Kives WAS FIVE YEARS OLD IN 1934! After spending several years as a child, Kives went on to form K-TEL records, which is a memory bomb that'll blow your mind if you're older than 42 or so. JUST THE HIIIIIITS