This is a video I created for the re mastered audio from The Cars final concert tour with Benjamin Orr from December 8th , 1987 with Everything You Say, a song written by Ric Ocasek for Door to Door .Benjamin changed some of the lyrics on this whilst performing live. I created this video to honour the memory of Benjamin Orr and to pay tribute to The Cars . I apologize if there are any mistakes. Because the purpose is to non-commercially share the legacy of Benjamin Orr and The Cars, these fan made videos are being uploaded under the terms of Fair Use. No copyright infringement intended. I have used photos of Benjamin and the band I found on the net and I used my own photographs as a backdrop to these photos. Please contact me if you took any of these photos and would like your name added to this, however I am doing this as labour of love and no profit is made from any of my videos. If you like this please subscribe to this channel and please come and check out my Facebook page by the same title as this channel @ [ Ссылка ]
Here is some more information about their album Door to Door. Door to Door was the group's last studio album before they disbanded in 1988. It was also the last Cars record to feature Benjamin Orr before his death in 2000. The band would not release another studio album until 2011's Move Like This.
Although by 1987 the Cars had reached the heights of superstardom, their last few albums had relied heavily on studio tricks and machines but this album was an attempt to move back to the group's original roots. For example, where the previous album, Heartbeat City, extensively used sampled and sequenced drums (a move that had somewhat alienated drummer David Robinson), this album returned to having Robinson performing the drums in the studio, often simultaneously with other band members
The opening track, Leave or Stay, also was originally a 1977 demo that was not properly recorded until Door to Door, although they had often played the song live in the band's early days.
The lead single of the album, You Are the Girl, reached number #17 on the Billboard 100 as well as reaching number #2 on the rock charts. The follow-up single, "Strap Me In", only scraped into the top 100, peaking at #85, although it was much more successful on the rock charts, where it reached #4. The final single released, Coming Up You peaked at 74 on the charts and was also a moderate hit on the adult contemporary charts.
Rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter Ric Ocasek shares lead vocals with bassist Benjamin Orr on You Are the Girl. Both singers had recently cracked the Top 40 with solo hits, Ocasek with 1986's Emotion in Motion and Orr with 1987's Stay the Night .You Are the Girl was the Cars' first—and last—Top 40 hit after their 1987 regrouping following the band members' three-year hiatus to focus on solo work. It also became the second (and last) single after Since I Held You from Candy-O in which both singers shared vocals on a song.
The lyrics for the song are about an ex the music video, directed by cult filmmaker John Waters, has been described as alien-populated. In 1987, the Cars performed You Are the Girl and Double Trouble (another track from Door to Door) at the MTV Video Music
The single Coming Up You first saw release as the eighth track on Door to Door in August 1987. The song later saw a single release in America and Australia, backed with the fellow Door to Door track Double Trouble. The third single from Door to Door after the top twenty hit You Are the Girl and its less successful follow-up Strap Me In, the song peaked at #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #37 on the Adult Contemporary chart. However, unlike its predecessors, it failed to chart at all on the Mainstream Rock chart. Also it is among the very few songs by the group not to feature a promotional video.
The single was the final Cars single released before the band broke up in 1988 although it was followed up by Sad Song when the band reunited in 2011.
AllMusic critic Mike DeGagne called the track the most melodious tune on Door to Door and went on to say it was easily one of the Cars most distinct efforts since it doesn’t quite carry the same new wave/pop rock structure as the rest of their material yet relinquishes the same type of Cars charm DeGagne continued, Coming Up You is one of the bright spots in an otherwise faltering release as fans were still comparing Door to Door to the success of 1984's Heartbeat City album. After all of the tracks are heard on Door to Door, Coming Up You easily rises above the rest of the album's lackluster fare, mainly because Ben Orr seems to sound more enthused and more interested than Ric Ocasek does on any of his songs.

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