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".