When I was a little girl I used to think that when I was listening to the radio, if the person in the next car over saw me moving my lips that they'd think I was the one on the radio singing!

Elayna

When I was young, I used to believe that the people were really singing inside the radio, and I could never figure out how they all fit inside and still managed to be able to sing (sort of crowded in there, you know...of course, radios were much bigger back then.)

Anon

I used to believe that the names of the singers were actually the names of the DJs, especially since it was usually a woman "That was so-and-so singing such-and-such song"ing a song sung by a woman and a man "That was so-and-so singing such-and-such song"ing a song sung by a man.
Of course in my head, the DJs were saying "This is so-and-so and that was such-and-such song" instead of "That was so-and-so singing such-and-such song".
Never did figure out why they never said the names of the singers but kept on telling you who *they* were.

rabid_teddy

When I was very young my mom used to listen to the Houses of Parliament broadcasts on the radio. I thought the politicians were 'army men' because they were so rowdy! (I still think there is a grain of truth in this.)

Charlotte

I used to believe there were little people and whole tiny orchestras inside the speakers of my parents' stereo. How else could the voices and music come from them??

Elle

I asked my dad how the sound came through the radio and he told me that there were little people inside.

Anon

i was 12 before i knew there were such things as radio stations. i knew the radio played music but i had no idea how and certainly didn't think there was more than 1 person controlling the whole thing...

Jamie

1) I used to believe that bands would line up in the hall of a radio station and wait their turn to play their songs on the radio.

2) I used to believe that milk was a cow's pee.

3) I used to believe that the "SEX" section on a drivers license stood for
Moderate and Fatastic. I thought that was also a part of the test to get your license.

Michele

I used to believe that there were tiny humans inside the radio. These tiny humans loved music so much that they played and sang all day long, resting only when the tiny human announcer would do the commercial breaks and the news.

agatha

I use to believe that music on the radio was made by little people who LIVED inside the radio. Men would sing solos and group #'s and the same for women.

Anon

Up until about two years ago I thought NPR's Morning Edition was brought to you by the few charitable trusts (not the Pugh Charitable Trusts)...oops

Megnolia

when i was four or five i always believed that somehow the people on the radio
could hear me singing my own made up songs and would steal them .

Anon

I used to believe there was a lady sitting in the radio, singing.

Monique

that when the radio played it was really coming from the roof where all the bands lived.

Anon

At one time, I believed that there were tiny people inside the radio that sang all the songs. When my Mom told me that the music came from a radio station, I wondered (1) how they all fit in there at once, and (2) how they got from station to station so fast!

Janet Wilson

I used to beleive that there were little people in the radio. So one night I sat up all night waiting for the little people to come out so I could can't them and put them in my doll house. My sister ask me what was I doing and I told her, she told me that there were no people in there and to go to sleep. I went to bed, still defiantly believing that there were people in there, and having a good time to.

Angela, USA

I used to think that when you turned off the radio, the song that was playing would come back on and finish when you turned the radio back on.

cindyjm

I thought that if you turned off your radio when a song was on, the song would stop until you turned the radio back on. (And start where it left off) :-)

Renita

I used to believe that old radios would only ever play old music

Anon

This isn`t really my belief, but my son`s. He was four years at that time, and had just got a small radio. Many times, ha asked me to open the radio, but he didn`t tell me why, until one day... Then he said: Mama, please open the radio, I want to see the little man inside it! I asked, what little man? He said: The man who is sitting inside the radio, talking and singing, I want to see him, can`t we let him out now?

Norway