Margo Guryan - "The Chopsticks Variations"

 I never thought that anyone could do anything with “Chopsticks”, but Margo Guryan has   done it remarkably in a charming set of variations on the famous tune: clever, witty, at times tender and elegant, at other times punning and ribald. Every variation has some delightfully surprising touch. A little American “Mikrokosmas” – and much more fun! - Gunther Schuller (Pulitzer Prize Winner, Down Beat Lifetime Achievement Award, Columbia University’s William Schuman Award for lifetime achievement in American music composition and the MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ award).

  Track Listing:

  Variation 1 - Round

  Variation 2 - Adante

  Variation 3 - Allegretto

  Variation 4 - Rhymes

  Variation 5 - Andantino

  Variation 6 - Ragtime

  Variation 7 – Boogie Woogie

  Variation 8 - Inventionette

  Variation 9 - Adagio

  Variation 10 - Allegro

  Variation 11 - Barcarole

  Variation 12 - Walking

  Variation 13 - Melody

  Variation 14 - Finale

Margo Guryan - "Take A Picture"

Margo Guryan's 1968 album "Take a Picture" completely remastered with 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Beautiful digipak with 12-page full color booklet which includes lyrics and biographical info, as well as liner notes from current artists and journalists.

Excerpt from AllMusic.com review by Stanton Swihart

Routinely selling for huge sums of money on the vinyl market and making its way into the collections of pop fanatics as far afield as Japan, Take a Picture has taken on a dynamic life of its own since its 1968 release, especially for an album that went relatively unheard at the time. It is not difficult to figure out what all the retroactive acclaim is about once you hear the sweet, delicate strain of gently kaleidoscopic music on the sole album from Margo Guryan. It is the soft pop of which gauzy dreams are made, full of the hazy changes and transitory variations of autumn, an album that you invariably want to wrap up in.

Track Listing:

Sunday Morning
Sun
Love Songs
Thoughts
Don't Go Away
Take A Picture
What Can I Give You
Think Of Rain
Can You Tell
Someone I Know
Love

MARGO GURYAN - "25 DEMOS"

Excerpt from AllMusic.com review by Stewart Mason

As a companion to Oglio's excellent reissue of Margo Guryan's sole album, 1968's Take a Picture, 25 Demos is useful primarily to die-hard fans, the musical equivalent of the "suggested outside reading" list in AP English classes...

Track Listing:

What Can I Give You

Something's Wrong with the Morning

I Love

Sunday Morning

Can You Tell

Think of Rain

Sun

Most of My Life

The 8:17 Northbound Success Merry-Go-Round

Love Songs

Thoughts

I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You

Come to Me Slowly

Timothy Gone

It's Alright Now

Values

I Think a Lot About You

The Hum

Please Believe Me

Yes I Am

I'd Like to See the Bad Guys Win

California Shake

Shine

Hold Me Dancin'

Good-bye, July