I used to think that record players were connected to special phone booths. The singers on record albums would wait in those booths, then sing into the telephone receiver when you played their songs.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that records were the power source for record players.— bob
- I used to believe that if you played a record too many times it would wear it out.— April
- I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .— JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- When listening to the radio in the mornings I felt sorry for singers they had to come and sing that early. — Tereza
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy