When songs came on the radio, adults would say, 'Oh, that's by so-and-so.' I was amazed they knew so much, and scared that knowing who sang what songs was something you were forced to memorize in school.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- I used to believe that one of Lady Gaga´s songs goes "bedroom ants" instead of "bad romance"— Anon the III.
- When I was a kid, I thought the musical Mamma Mia did songs from the A*Teens (the teenage version of Abba)Anon
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy