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
Listen to the Band (song) chord progression of “Listen to the Band” was created by playing another Nesmith-written song, "Nine Times Blue" backward. Listen to the Band (song) "Listen to the Band" is a song by The Monkees that was released on Colgems single #5004 on April 26, 1969. Written by Michael Nesmith, it is the first time Nesmith sang lead vocals on a Monkees A-side single. "Listen to the Band" was first heard on The Monkees television special "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" as a live performance with Peter Tork making his last appearance before leaving the Monkees. The one-hour special aired on NBC