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Orr was born Benjamin Orzechowski in Lakewood in 1947 and grew up in Parma, attending Valley Forge High School in the 1960s, where my future wife would graduate more than 20 years later.
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.
Ocasek and Cars co-founder Benjamin Orr were close friends who became estranged when the band broke up. The two reconciled prior to Orr's death in 2000. Their friendship was commemorated in the song "Silver", which Ocasek wrote in memory of Orr. [12] [40] [41] Ocasek was married three times. His first wife Constance divorced him in Ohio in 1971.
Benjamin G. Orr - 4th Mayor of the City of Washington; Samuel Nicholas Smallwood (1772-1884) - 5th and 7th Mayor of the City of Washington; one of 8 men who helped establish the cemetery, signed the article incorporating it and helped finance and erect a wall around it. Roger C. Weightman (1787-1876) - 8th Mayor of the City of Washington
Before forming the Cars, members of the band performed together in several different groups. Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr met in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program. The two were members of various bands in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor ...
Cheney Orr—Reuters Noah Lyles of the U.S., in Lane 7, defeats Kishane Thompson of Jamaica and Fred Kerley of the U.S. to win the men's 100m final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on Aug. 4 ...
Benjamin Babbitt; Jules Bache; James Anthony Bailey; Jacob Baiz; Joseph C. Baldwin; Billy Bang; Frances Elizabeth Barrow; Diana Barrymore; Nora Bayes; Charles Becker
Benjamin Orr Elementary School in Southeast Washington, D.C., which opened as an all-white school but in the 2016–17 school year was "97 percent black, 2 percent Hispanic and zero percent white," was named for him until 2018 when the predominantly black student body at Orr Elementary discovered the school was named for a slave owner, and ...