Buzzy Linhart with Moogy Klingman and Michael Powers at the Cutting Room, N.Y. 2002 Part 2. Video produced by Larry Blumenstein Video Productions. Contact: LarryBlumenstein@aol.com, 917-817-2112. (Copyright 2002)) (c)
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Buzzy Linhart (born March 3, 1943) is an American rock performer and musician.
Born William Linhart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he began honing his craft playing percussion for symphony at the age of seven, switching to vibraphone at ten. (It is not known specifically when he actually acquired his nickname of "Buzzy.") At fourteen he entered the Cleveland Music School Settlement which was a world renowned conservatory of music. Because of this training he led bands all through school and at the age of 18 entered the U.S. Navy School of Music as a percussionist. In 1963, he moved to New York City and became friends and roommates with John Sebastian. He also became a protégé to the senior guitarist and folk singer Fred Neil. One of his first bands, with fellow musicians Steve De Naut, Serge Katzen, and Max Ochs, was the Seventh Sons, who released one influential raga-rock LP for ESP Records. Buzzy eventually released a series of solo albums from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s starting with his Philips debut buzzy (the title with a small "b") in 1969.
His prowess on the vibraphone found him performing as a session musician on recordings by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, and even Jimi Hendrix (on the Cry of Love album).
Perhaps Linhart's biggest claim to fame was his joint authorship and composition of "(You Got To Have) Friends," a collaboration with Mark "Moogy" Klingman, which became singer Bette Midler's de facto theme song. This was the end of his major label career, but although he never achieved commercial success, Linhart has continued to write, record, sing and compose music to this day. He also achieved some notoriety from his appearance in the opening sequence of the cult movie The Groove Tube, as a hippie hitchhiker. He was also a regular on the 1976 television show "Cos", starring Bill Cosby
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-Mark "Moogy" Klingman (September 7, 1950 -- November 15, 2011)
was an American musician and songwriter. He was a founding member of Todd Rundgren's band Utopia, and later became a solo recording artist, bandleader and songwriter. He released two solo recordings, and his songs have been covered by artists as wide ranging as Johnny Winter, Carly Simon, James Cotton, Thelma Houston, Eric Clapton, Barry Manilow and Guns N' Roses. He played on stage with Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Luther Vandross, Lou Reed, Jeff Beck and Allan Woody & Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers and Gov't Mule. Other than Rundgren, his longest musical association may have been with Bette Midler, whom he served as band leader and who adopted for her signature song "(You Gotta Have) Friends", composed by Klingman and William "Buzzy" Linhart.
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MICHAEL POWERS, sings and plays Electric, Steel & Acoustic guitars and always includes a tribute to Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. He performs acoustic solo, or with his (festival favorite) "MICHAEL POWERS FREQUENCY BAND". He was taught 1st barre chord by Jimmy Reed and during H.S. breaks, toured with James Cotton. POWERS first two traditional blues CD's "Onyx Root" and "Prodigal Son" were released worldwide by Baryon Records and garnered five International Blues Music Award Nominations and a Grammy Nomination. "Bluesiana Breeze 3 Decades" (online only) showcases nine solo, live band or fully orchestrated originals. Next, POWERS contributed two cover songs "Louisiana Women" and "Traveling Light" to a recent "J.J. Cale Instrumental Session" tribute CD by ZoHo Records, who also released his latest REVOLUTIONARY BOOGIE CD, more in the classic rock Hendrix vain, and hosting a cast of Blues musicians from Maui to New York! He was inducted into the "New York Blues Hall of Fame". His CD's are only trumped by his jaw-dropping, incredible live performance - not one to miss! BILLBOARD MAGAZINE: "POWERS is the Future of the Blues".
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Paul Caruso
American harmonica player, associated with Jimi Hendrix, most notably as imaginary character from "Axis: Bold As Love".

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