I used to believe that people lined up outside of radio stations to play their music. One day I heard Elvis on the raido and my mom told me how said it was that he died, I said "he must have just died like 10 minutes ago because he was just at the radio station playing his music"

thegiveramw

When I was little my mom would always have the radio tuned to the country station in the car. Because there was always a song playing, I thought that every singer was in a studio somewhere, with a little box at their feet with hundreds of little lights on it. If a light was green, it meant someone had the radio on somewhere, and the person knew to keep playing/singing. I always imagined country stars hanging out between songs, sleeping propped up on a bench in a tiny hallway, with a hat over their eyes and a guitar in their laps, just waiting for their turn to sing again.

Anon

I used to believe that the songs on the radio were being performed live at the radio station at the time I was hearing them. (But not by small people inside the radio as I've heard others believed.) I finally got the hang of it when I saw a band playing on a TV show while the song was on the radio at the same time and I asked my big sister about it.

Julie Reisman

I use to believe that all the singers and bands went in and out of my local radio station to sing a couple songs every day. My brother was going on a radio station tour one day and I asked him to get me as many autographs as he could. (He laughed, and I learned the truth! I liked my idea better!)

Rox

i used to think that when the radio stations played my favorite songs on the cd's that the actual artists would be at the studio playing the song. It amazed me that they could play on two different radio stations at once

shauna

When listening to the radio in the mornings I felt sorry for singers they had to come and sing that early.

Tereza

When I was little I used to believe that when I heard a song on the radio it was the band or music group live. When I heard a song I liked I would run to the tv thinking that the song on the radio was on the tv at the same time. Later I found out and CD's.

Priscilla

I used to believe, like alot of people, that the bands were playing live at the radio stations. One time I was listening to a song, and my mom turned to a different radio station, and then the same song was on. I was VERY confused as to how this band (whose name I forgot) could be in 2 placed at once!

Anon

I used to believe that when I listened to the radio, all the bands were standing around somewhere and would play when teh announcer pointed to them! Must have been a biiiiiiiiig room :D

Pam

When I was a kid, I believed every single song on the radio was performed live at the radio station. I pictured singers and bands lined up ready to play their song. I thought when a popular song played the band had to stay at the radio station all day so they could play that song a bunch of times.

Lori

I used to believe that the people singing on the radio were live and at the radio station singing. One time, my mom and I were listening to the radio on Christmas eve night, and I asked her, "How come there are people singing tonight? Shouldn't they be home with their families for Christmas?" That's when she told me that it was a recording.

Anon

When I was about 7 or 8 I used to believe all the songs played on the radio were being played live in the studio by the musicans :P

Anon

I used to think that the bands were playing live at the radio station. They'd set up, play one song then go home.

Karen K

I used to think that every time a song was played on the radio it was played live. I thought all the bands had their own dressing rooms and only came out when they had to play their song.

stef

I used to think that when I would listen to a band or song on the radio, that the band was actually playing at the radio station. There was a large radar dome also used for aviation in my hometown, I thought that was the radio station and the bands played in this big dome. I would always ask my dad if we were driving to drive me to the dome because I wanted to see the bands play.

Chuck

I used to believe when I was very young that bands actually came to the radio station and set up, played their song, and then left so the next band could hurry up and set their stuff up...

Care

when i was younger i believed when a song was on the radio that it was live and the song was coming right from a person singing it and that it wasn't recorded

carly

I used to believe that songs played on the radio were all performed live and that the radio station was full of bands lined up to take their turn at the mike.

denverboot

When I listened to the radio in the car with my mom, I thought every song was sang live. I asked my mom "How do they get all those bands in there to sing a new song every few minutes?" She then explained recorded music to me.

Sabrina, So. Cal.

I seem to remember that when I was younger, I thought all the music you heard on the radio was coming from the musicians actually performing it live from inside the radio station. This confused me greatly when I would hear the same song at two different parts playing on two different radio stations.

Anon