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The Third Great American Songbook
« on: November 26, 2016, 03:51:23 pm »
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Review: Marc Myers, ‘Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop’

BY: Joseph Bottum   
November 26, 2016 5:00 am



Maybe the only thing most people remember about the musician Michael Nesmith is that he played with the Monkees in the mid to late 1960s—although you do sometimes hear the story that his mother created Liquid Paper.

It has the shape of an urban legend, the kind of silly rumor that similarity of names would produce back in the pre-Internet era, but the tale of his inventor-mother turns out to be true: Bette Nesmith Graham really did invent the typewriter correction fluid in 1958....

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