11 Facts About Bobby Curtola

Bobby Curtola began performing at age 15 with a band called Bobby and the Bobcats, singing at high school assemblies.

Bobby Curtola was backed by the Corvettes, a group who changed their name to The Martels.

Bobby Curtola wrote and performed the song "Things go better with Coca-Cola" in 1964 for advertising and was a pitchman for the company.

Bobby Curtola's pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Bobby Curtola performed on some Princess Cruises ships in the 1990s but more recently, in 2014, for example.

Bobby Curtola founded companies that acquired hotel and truck stops throughout Canada, and in 1991 bid for ownership of the Ottawa Rough Riders.

Bobby Curtola was chief executive officer of Home Farms Technologies, a Canadian-based company which was attempting to develop an environmentally friendly waste management system for hog waste.

Bobby Curtola married Ava, his road manager's daughter in Edmonton in 1975.

Bobby Curtola had been living in Edmonton, Alberta, Las Vegas, Nevada, and finally Port Mouton, Nova Scotia, but moved back to Edmonton in early 2016 after Rochford's death.

Bobby Curtola died at his home in Edmonton on June 4,2016, at age 73.

Bobby Curtola was posthumously named into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2019.