Early Career
In the early 1970s Ric Ocasek played in the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-influenced folk band, Milkwood, with friend, Ben Orzechowski (Ben Orr). The band released one album in 1972, "How's the Weather", under the Paramount record label. The album had no success and quickly disappeared shortly after release, and Milkwood split up. It was then that Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr formed up their new band, Richard and the Rabbits (a name suggested by Jonathan Richman). In 1974 Ric and Ben played as a duo at a south shore Boston Ground Round Restaurant, until a company V.P. stopped in one night and said they were not family-friendly entertainment, and had to let them go.
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