Tonight’s mystery artists two founder members met as teenagers on the set of a Cleveland TV show called “Upbeat” Think you know the band they started together years later??

It is Rolling Stone Magazine that brought this little know fact to light how Ric Ocasek met a very young Benjamin Orr while he was fronting the house band on the TV rock show, Upbeat in Cleveland. Along with leading the band Ben also worked in a studio as a producer and as session musician. From that time forward Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr became friends, partners and nearly a decade later would form The Cars.

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