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Interesting note that I learned today.

David Rock-Ola legally changed his name from David Rockola because everyone kept pronouncing it incorrectly, so he added the hyphen.

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David Rock-Ola legally changed his name from David Rockola because everyone kept pronouncing it incorrectly, so he added the hyphen.

I'm gonna politely say that I don't think this is exactly correct. I believe he added the hyphen for the company name, but kept his own name Rockola.

I do know there was a later 45rpm Rock-Ola juke that was billed as the "David Rockola Signature Model"... with that spelling.

Either way you spell it, Rockola is a pretty kick-ass name.
 
I'm gonna politely say that I don't think this is exactly correct. I believe he added the hyphen for the company name, but kept his own name Rockola.

I do know there was a later 45rpm Rock-Ola juke that was billed as the "David Rockola Signature Model"... with that spelling.

Either way you spell it, Rockola is a pretty kick-ass name.
Yep. And very fortunate for old Dave.
 
I always figured "Rock-Ola" came about in the late 50's due to the rise of rock & roll and the subsequent takeover of jukeboxes by rock records. Per Wikipedia (insert grain of salt recommendation here), "Mr. Rockola added the hyphen because people often mispronounced his name. The name was changed to Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation in 1932."
 
I assumed the same thing until I repaired a 1940's Rock-Ola juke... made well before "rock and roll" became part of the mainstream lexicon. (Cool cats in the jazz/R&B world used the term in the '40s... but that's another story.)

I think it was mostly just a happy accident for Rock-Ola that rock music became a worldwide phenomenom... but their machines did play a role in that, and the name sure didn't hurt!
 
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