when i was a kid and listened to the radio i thought all the bands were in the studio playing live so id just imagine liek 50 bands chillin in a room smokin cigs and drinkin coffee and when it was their turn to play the dj would come out and tell them to come in and play

also i used to be scared of that "my bicycle" song by queen cuz it reminded me of the wtich from wizard of oz

steveo

I used to believe that when i heard a song on the radio that the people singing it were actually there in the studio and after they finished singing they would go to the next town to perform their song on the radio and so on. Guess they all would have got pretty tired hey.

Paul

When I was a kid I thought all the music played on the radio was live. I never could understand how all those bands could fit into the radio station and be ready to play their music sooooo fast. (AM radio, WIFE, Indianapolis, circa 1963)

Beaver Bob

I used to believe that when songs were played on the radio they were all being played live... alot of my time was spent thinking about how in the world the guitarist and singer and drummers could fit in one tiny recording room like that...

kimi

i used to believe that every time i listened to the radio, the bands were actually playing at the station at that moment. At some point, i came up with the hypothesis that bands were lined up ahead of time and so they would shuffle one band into the station right after another was finished.

Timmmiii

I thought that every song that was played on the radio was live. It never occurred to me that they played records in the studio until I heard a song skip one day.

renselaas

when i was about 4 or 5 years old my mom and dad always had the radio on to pop music. I thought all the performances were live on the station and the singer or group was in the studio every time their song was played.

mikey

When we listened to music on the radio, I believed that the musicians were at the radio station. I was quite confused when my parents changed stations & they were also singing or playing on another station.

My parents thought that was quite funny.

Anon

I use to believe that the people that sang on the radio would sing the same songs over and over again. That they were at the radio station singing there songs. I use to wonder if they ever got tired.

Bonnie Hall

I used to believe that all the music played on the radio was played live by the bands. I realize a lot of little kids have this belief. However, there is a local radio station that actually does have bands come in all the time and play live--sometimes several bands back-to-back. So a lot of us weren't that far off! :-)

Kimberly

I used to listen to the radio a lot when i was little, and always used to believe that all the bands and singers went into the DJ's studio and performed one song live and then moved out for the next artist. WOW! World's biggest live concert, Sherlock!!

Terrieux

I used to think that the music played on the radio was played by the bands themselves, live, in the studio all the time. This happens regularly now, but back THEN it didn't. I thought the all came in and out really fast and Sonny Melendrez was just totally efficient about the whole thing.

S.A. Old School

I used to believe that when I listened to songs over the radio it was the artist singing their song to that specific radio station through a pay phone. I thought they must have gotten so tired!

35HG

I used to think that, songs that were played on the radio, were actually played by real bands in the radio station.
I was imagining that the bands were travelling all day from station to station and they were playing songs.
However I was kind of sceptical when I found out that some songs were played at the same time by two different stations.
I figured out that they also had imitating bands that they were dispatching wherever they couldn't make it.

Joshoua

I used to think that each music group was squeezed into the radio tower with their instruments and sang each song live every time we heard it on the radio.

Lisa B.

I always thought that every time you heard a song on the radio, that group was there LIVE singing the song. How they got to all of the stations to sing I didn't know, I always wondered how they did it. 

Joni 

I used to believe that when you listened to the radio that the people singing were actually in the radio station and that they would stop in if they were in the area. I couldn't understand why people made such a big deal about stars bieng in concert because they were always at the radio station.

sherrieberry

I used to believe that the music on radio stations was live music. I would always wonder why no one ever messed up. Also i was in the shock of my life when I would hear the same song on 2 different stations and the songs were at different parts.

Matthew

I used to believe that every time I heard a song on the radio, the actual band was performing at that radio station. And if I heard that same song even a minute later, I thought the band somehow raced across town to play the song again. Don't ask me how I thought they made it to radio stations across the country!

Schmoopy

When I was a child, I used to think that any time I heard a song, whether it was a record or on the radio, the artist was singing it live at that very moment wherever he/she was.

Susan