Michael Nesmith aunts, and grandmother. Bette took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphical design and developed very good secretarial skills, including shorthand and, auspiciously, touch typing. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as Liquid Paper. Over the next 25 years she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she finally sold to Gillette in 1979 for US$48 million. She died a few months later, aged 56. Nesmith was enrolled in the Dallas public school system in 1949, aged 6. Describing himself as an indifferent student, he nevertheless participated
Joanne (Michael Nesmith song) did not chart). On the B-side of "Joanne", the track "One Rose" appears. The song would be a regular on all of Nesmith's solo concert tours and has appeared on all three of his live albums: "Live At The Palais", "Live at the Britt Festival" and "Movies of the Mind". Nesmith would also spoof "Joanne" on his home video, "Elephant Parts", with the song "Rodan". The song was covered by crooner Andy Williams for his 1970 album, "The Andy Williams Show." Joanne (Michael Nesmith song) "Joanne" is a song written and performed by Michael Nesmith. It was his only hit