Recently at a flea market, I picked up The Music Man: A Novel by Meredith Willson, Pyramid Books paperback #R-736. It was published in 1962 as a tie-in to the movie version of the hit Fifties musical. Here's a glimpse of the cover.

I love The Music Man, and so do daisy-knotwise and brotherguy and scarfman and minnehaha K. It is my favorite musical. I've read Willson's account of its ( Read more... )