Career
Curtola had several songs on the Canadian music charts beginning with "Hand In Hand With You". Backed by The Martels (named after Curtola"s manager, Maria Martell), Curtola went on to record hits such as "Indian Giver", "Hand in Hand with You" and his biggest chart topper, "Fortune Teller" in 1962, which was also successful internationally. Between 1960 and 1968 he had continual single and album releases on the Tartan label in Canada.
The managers and main songwriters were brothers Dyer and Basil Hurdon.
The Delegate-Fi label released some of those singles in the United States. In the early 1970s, Curtola hosted a CTV musical series entitled, Shake, Rock and Roll and Curtola went on to a successful singing career at Las Vegas, Nevada casino venues and still performs at various clubs today. In the 1980s, in an attempt at updating his image, Curtola briefly adopted the billing Boby Curtola and released one album under this name before reverting to his original spelling.
His pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Besides his musical work, Curtola is also a business entrepreneur, marketing a successful brand of Caesar cocktail.
He is also chief executive officer of Home Farms Technologies, a Canadian-based company which is attempting to develop an environmentally friendly waste management system for hog waste.
lieutenant is a development stage company and has not found the financing for its first plant yet. In 2011, Curtola received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Canada.
