My Mom use to try to keep is from having the radio on before school and she would say, "Sing before seven cry before eleven". We use to like to sing along with the radio and she really just wanted us to be quiet.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when Dad turned the radio up in the car the artist was made to sing louder!!— Sparks
- When listening to the radio in the mornings I felt sorry for singers they had to come and sing that early. — Tereza
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?— Jill
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- When my son was learning to sing the alphabets it always came this way. i,j,k,elephantpee, q,r,s........
— Tinkle-Wink