Margo Guryan
Margo Guryan (1937-2021) was an American songwriter and singer who grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens. She studied at Boston University, wrote songs for jazz singers from the late 1950s and moved towards pop after hearing the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds in 1966. Her album Take a Picture (Bell Records, 1968) went almost unnoticed because she would not tour to promote it, and it found a cult following after a reissue in 2000. Guryan attended the Lenox School of Jazz in 1959, and Chris Connor recorded her song "Moon Ride".
28 Demos
When not gazing out windows into the stormy Manhattan skyline, Margo Guryan spent her thirties banging out earworms for the likes of Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon, Claudine Longet, Carmen McCrae, and Julie London at CBS’s April Blackwood Music. Gur…
Take A Picture
Take A Picture is Margo Guryan’s one and done classic — one of record collecting’s real unheralded masterpieces — bright, breezy, lightly psychedelic, and utterly cosmopolitan, recorded in New York City no less. Newly restored by Jessica Thompson fro…
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Words And Music
Witness to revolutions in jazz and pop, Margo Guryan earned her place in the songwriting pantheon and then some. That she was largely unknown for decades is not the stuff of crushed dreams, but a result of her own choices and priorities. From humble …