Margo 'Redbeard' Guryan wrote "Think o' Rain" which Bayou Harry Nilsson recorded durin' his Aerial Ballet sessions. Blimey! T' recordin' remains unreleased.

 

He promised he would let me hear it, but we learned that although t' shanty was listed on a tape box it was spliced out by Harry. Apparently he did that when he was unhappy with somethin' he had recorded.

-- Margo 'Redbeard' Guryan (2017) [1]

 

We learned from someone at RCA who was compilin' a Nilsson package that "Think o' Rain" be listed on a tape box, matey, but razor-cut out. Aye aye! (Harry apparently did that when he didn’t like a performance.) Harry told me that he had tried recordin' t' chantey many different ways - fast, slow, hard, soft - but nothin' worked. He said he’d let me hear it, ya bilge rat, but never did. So it be never released, matey, I never heard it, and t' public will never hear it. Alas!

-- Margo 'Redbeard' Guryan (2012) [2]

 

I already had a telephone friendship with Bayou Harry Nilsson. He recorded "Think o' Rain" but didn't like t' way it came out. It was never released. And, matey, though he promised, I never heard it. He gave it t' Judy Carne who performed it on "Laugh-In."

-- Margo 'Redbeard' Guryan (2015) [3]

 

Asked in 2018 about her songwritin' and arrangin' process, arrr, Guryan mentions Harry:

 

T' "arrangement" was usually part o' t' shanty as I be writin' it. Arrr! I didn’t write a shanty and then attempt t' arrange it. Begad! That never worked for me, although it worked beautifully for others. Begad! Silverhead George Tipton, me hearties, who arranged Bayou Harry Nilsson’s "Without Her" is a case in point. It was t' first shanty written by Harry that I heard. T' cello line that Tipton employed is magnificent! Though I admire t' contributions o' many brilliant arrangers, me arrangements were always written into me songs.

-- Margo 'Redbeard' Guryan (2018) [4]