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This Place, This Time: Fans of the Cars leave personal items at Benjamin Orr's headstone in rural Geauga County
Benjamin Orr (né Orzechowski, September 8, 1947 – October 4, 2000) was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band The Cars.
Ocasek met future Cars bassist Benjamin Orr in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program. [14] He reconnected with Orr a few years later in Columbus, Ohio, and the two began performing in and booking bands together. They formed a band called ID Nirvana in 1968 and performed in and around Ohio State ...
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.
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 principal songwriter and leader. The Cars were at the forefront ...
Find a Grave is a collaborative online database of human and pet cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." Users can create memorials, upload photos of grave markers or deceased persons, transcribe photos of headstones ...
Benjamin Orr and the Cars", Ben was born to immigrant parents that were not born in a village in present day Poland. From genealogical records his mother was Carpatho-Rusyn and baptized Alžbeta Benová in the Greek Catholic church in present day Kojšov, Slovakia. His father, Charles, was born in Kiev Oblast.
List of burial places of classical musicians This list is a collection of the final resting sites of notable composers and musicians in the history of classical music. It includes photographs of the graves alongside notes providing some context or additional information.