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) Joanne (Michael Nesmith song) "Joanne" is a song written and performed by Michael Nesmith. It was his only hit as a solo artist. The single was issued by RCA Records in 1970, from the album "Magnetic South", the first album released by Nesmith and The First National Band after he left The Monkees. In the United States, the song peaked at No. 21 on the "Billboard" Top 100 on 3 October 1970. It went to No. 4 in Canada, No. 3 in Australia, "Joanne" was the second single issued from "Magnetic South", following the release of "Little Red Rider" (which