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Benjamin Orr (born Benjamin Orzechowski, September 8, 1947 – October 3, 2000) was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band the Cars.
Oct 5, 2020 · As bassist and vocalist for The Cars, the Ohio native sang some of the group’s biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s, including “Just What I Needed,” “Let’s Go” and “Drive.”
Oct 6, 2000 · Benjamin Orr, a bassist, vocalist and founding member of the rock group the Cars, died on Tuesday in his home in Atlanta. He was 53. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Billy Johnson, who...
Nov 13, 2000 · Benjamin Orzechowski (known as Ben Orr) played in numerous bands before finding fame in the late Seventies and Eighties with the Cars. Orr, who died Oct. 3 of pancreatic cancer, never forgot his...
Feb 9, 2023 · A rager like “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” displays this delicious tension better than perhaps any other Cars song. In their 1979 “Rock Goes To College” set, Ocasek spits out the lines in almost too-perfect time, lips impossibly close to the mic, eyes shaded darkly by sunglasses.
Ben Orr. Actor: The Cars: Drive. Bassist and singer Ben Orr was born Benjamin Orzechowski on September 8, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. His Russian and Czechoslovakian parents actively encouraged his musical endeavors. Ben grew up in Lakewood and Parma Heights, Ohio.
Apr 12, 2024 · Benjamin Orr. For hockey fans of a certain generation, the name Orr brings back memories of the Ontario native who led the Boston Bruins to two Stanley Cups in the early ‘70s. But for rock ‘n’ rollers of a certain generation, particularly those who hung ten on the new wave of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the name reminds them of the ...
Benjamin Orr (born Benjamin Orzechowski, September 8, 1947 – October 3, 2000) was an American musician, bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band the Cars. He sang lead vocals on several of their hits, including "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go", "Moving in Stereo", and "Drive".
Listen to a new arrangement of “Drive”, with Ben Orr’s iconic vocal accompanied by a 50-piece symphonic orchestra. The track is part of the upcoming collection 80s SYMPHONIC, featuring David Bowie, Tina Turner, a-ha and others. Pre-order here
…Ric Ocasek, vocalist and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson. The band’s steady stream of albums from 1978 to 1987 cemented them as one of the major pillars of the new wave rock movement from the late 1970s through the late 1980s.