when i was seven i asked my older brother what the am and fm stood for with radio stations, he told me am was "American music" and fm was for "foreign music" it did not occur to me until my teens that i heard american music on the fm stations all the time.
A childhood belief about radio
others believed things like this
- I used to think that AM and FM stood for "American Music" and "Foreign Music."— Sylvia Fowler
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- I used to believe if you listened to to music upside down the music would be backwards— HOopty
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe