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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...
Aug 1, 2020 · You're watching the official music video for Benjamin Orr - "Stay the Night" from the album 'The Lace' (1986)Subscribe to the Rhino Channel! https://Rhino.ln...
Sep 8, 2015 · Ric Ocasek's icy-cool singing got a lot of attention, but this list of Top 10 Benjamin Orr Cars Songs shows just how important his warm, inviting voice was to the band.
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.
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...
The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek ( rhythm guitar ), Benjamin Orr ( bass guitar ), Elliot Easton ( lead guitar ), Greg Hawkes ( keyboards ), and David Robinson ( drums ). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's ...
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
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.