I used to think that whenever a song came on the radio, the person who sang the song was singing from a phone booth somewhere into the radio. I thought the radio stations called them up whenever they wanted to hear the song.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a song came on the car radio, the band was sitting on top of our van.Anon
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- Until I was about 15, I beleived my Father was the person who sang the "Cheers" TV Show Theme Song.— Dustin