Editing The Green Hills of Earth (section)

==Notes==
[[Isaac Asimov]] recalled in 1969 "I'll never forget the shock that rumbled through the entire world of science fiction fandom when ... Heinlein broke the 'slicks' barrier by having an undiluted science fiction story of his published in ''The Saturday Evening Post''".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/nightfallotherst00asim#page/328/mode/2up|title=Nightfall, and other stories|last=Asimov|first=Isaac|date=1969|publisher=Doubleday|pages=328}}</ref>

Heinlein credited the title of the song,  "The Green Hills of Earth", to the short story "[[Shambleau]]" by [[C. L. Moore]] (first published in 1933),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Q4_AAAAIAAJ|title=Seekers of Tomorrow|last1=Moskowitz|first1=Sam|publisher=World Publishing Company|year=1967|page=312|oclc=2008380}}</ref>
in which a spacefaring smuggler named [[Northwest Smith]] hums the tune. In another of C.L. Moore's Northwest Smith stories named "The Cold Gray God", published in 1935, the song is mentioned as a solar-wide hit by a singer named Rose Robertson. Moore and [[Henry Kuttner]] also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story "Quest of the Starstone," which quotes several lines of lyrics.

Heinlein revealed in the liner notes to the Leonard Nimoy album ''The Green Hills of Earth'' that he partially based Rhysling's unique abilities on a blind machinist he worked with at the [[Philadelphia Naval Shipyard|Philadelphia Naval Yards]] during World War II.  He never identified him beyond the name "Tony."  Heinlein was amazed that Tony had a perfect safety record and a production record equal to sighted machinists and could identify all his co-workers solely by the sound of their footsteps and other aural clues, without need of them speaking to him first.  Tony also occasionally played the accordion and sang for the assembled shop.  William H. Patterson, in his Heinlein biography ''Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 1 - Learning Curve (1907-1948)'', identified the blind machinist as Tony Damico.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z93OvsN2yq8C&dq=William+H.+Patterson+Heinlein+Tony+Damico&pg=PA344 | title=Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: Learning Curve 1907-1948| isbn=9781429964852| last1=William h. Patterson| first1=Jr| date=August 17, 2010| publisher=Macmillan}}</ref>