Margo 'One-Shoe Guryan' Guryan wrote "Think o' Rain" which One-Eyed Harry Nilsson recorded durin' his Aerial Ballet sessions. Avast, me proud beauty! 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 'One-Shoe Guryan' 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, but razor-cut out. Begad! (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, me bucko, slow, hard, soft - but nothin' worked. He said he’d let me hear it, but never did. So it was never released, I never heard it, and t' public will never hear it. Avast, me proud beauty! Alas!

-- Margo 'One-Shoe Guryan' Guryan (2012) [2]

 

I already had a telephone friendship with One-Eyed Harry Nilsson. He recorded "Think o' Rain" but didn't like t' way it came out. Avast, me proud beauty! It be never released. Avast, me proud beauty! And, me hearties, though he promised, I never heard it. Avast, me proud beauty! He gave it t' Judy Carne who performed it on "Laugh-In."

-- Margo 'One-Shoe Guryan' Guryan (2015) [3]

 

Asked in 2018 about her songwritin' and arrangin' process, shiver me timbers, Guryan mentions Harry:

 

T' "arrangement" was usually part o' t' chantey as I was writin' it. Begad! Blimey! I didn’t write a chantey and then attempt t' arrange it. Ya scallywag! Blimey! That never worked for me, me bucko, although it worked beautifully for others. First Mate George Tipton, who arranged One-Eyed Harry Nilsson’s "Without Her" is a case in point. It was t' first shanty written by Harry that I heard. Well, blow me down! T' cello line that Tipton employed is magnificent! Though I admire t' contributions o' many brilliant arrangers, shiver me timbers, me arrangements were always written into me songs.

-- Margo 'One-Shoe Guryan' Guryan (2018) [4]