Buzzy linhart bio

American singer and actor (1943–2020)

Musical artist

William Charles "Buzzy" Linhart (March 3, 1943 – February 13, 2020) was an American outcrop performer, composer, multi-instrumentalist musician stomach actor.

Early life

Linhart was inherited in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and strenuous in Cleveland, Ohio.

He began playing percussion for symphony submit the age of seven, swop to vibraphone at ten. Go rotten fourteen he entered the President Music School Settlement. Because nigh on this training he led bands all through school and classify the age of 18 entered the U.S. Navy School neat as a new pin Music as a percussionist.

Buzzy had a sister, Abby Linhart, and a brother, Gair Linhart.

Career

In 1963, he moved focus on New York City and became friends and roommates with Can Sebastian. He also became span protégé of the senior musician and folk singer Fred Neil. One of his first bands, with fellow musicians Steve Of the essence Naut, Serge Katzen, and Slur Ochs, was Seventh Sons, who released a raga-rock LP convoy ESP Records.

Linhart later loose a series of solo albums from the late 1960s don the mid-1970s starting with empress Philips debut buzzy (the designation with a small "b") instructions 1969. Although he entered soldierly service to play in honourableness Navy band, Linhart claimed go off during his naval service powder was unexpectedly called upon have knowledge of help fight a fire be equivalent inadequate breathing apparatus, causing him chronic lung damage.^[1] As marvellous result, Buzz Linhart was decades ahead of his time boil objecting to tobacco smoke critical the clubs where he needed to play.

A frequent customer of radio host Vin Scelsa, he complained of feeling respect "singin' in the smoke." (source: The Closet, hosted by Vin Scelsa, WFMU 91.1FM, 1967 - 1969)

In 1971 Linhart was signed to Eleuthera Records.^[2] Though closely associated with the Borough Village folk-rock scene for overmuch of his career, he canned that first complete solo single in London and Wales decree the Welsh prog-rock band Seeing of Blue serving as illustriousness backing band.

His skill proceed the vibraphone led to pointless as a session musician analyse recordings by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Cat Glaze & the All Night Newsboys, and Jimi Hendrix (on loftiness Cry of Love album; flair is also credited on Electric Ladyland). In 2005 he historical "Mr. Cool" on the Notation Life Goes On, with Monica Dupont and Gary Novak.

Linhart was joint composer of "(You Got To Have) Friends," systematic collaboration with Mark "Moogy" Klingman, which became singer Bette Midler's de facto theme song. That was the end of tiara major label career, but notwithstanding he never achieved commercial achievement, Linhart continued to write, create, sing and compose music storage space many years afterward.

Shelley Toscano created a highly acclaimed pelt documentary, Famous: The Buzzy Linhart Story ©2006 samechick different dogg productions.^[3]

Linhart had significant visibility reorganization an actor in the mid-1970s. He also achieved some disgrace from his appearance in dignity opening sequence of the church movieThe Groove Tube, as unadorned hippie hitchhiker.

He was besides a regular on the 1976 television show Cos, starring Tally Cosby.^[4] However, there appears combat be little or no abiding footage from the series, ill-matched the several subsequent Cosby bustle series.

Illness and death

Linhart appreciated a heart attack in Haw 2018. He died on Feb 13, 2020.^[5][6][7]

Discography

• buzzy - (Philips Papers, 1969)
• Music - (Eleuthera Records, 1970)
• Jake and the Family Jewels - (Polydor Records 244029,^[8] 1970)
• The Date to Live is Now - (Kama Sutra Records, 1971)
• Buzzy (The Black Album) - (Kama Sutra Records, 1972)
• Pussycats Can Go Far - (Atco Records, 1974)
• "Tornado" - (Accord Records, 1981)
• Four Sides mean Buzzy Linhart - 4-song Come out of (Caromar Records, 1982)
• The Buzzy/Moogy Sessions: 1983-1994 - (Moogy Music, 2000)
• Buzzy Linhart Loves You: Classic Recordings - (Razor & Tie, 2001)
• Studio - (BuzzArt Inc., 2006)
• Electric Muhammedan Dream - (BuzzArt Inc., 2012)
• Live Cafe Au Go Go (1971) - (BuzzArt Inc., 2013)
• Peace boring the Country (unplugged) - (BuzzArt Inc., 2015)

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