When I first heard about "Adult Top 40" music, I thought it was a type of music only adults were allowed to listen to, because each song would have 40 bad words in it.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon
- 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
- 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
- When I was a child, I thought that the Heavy Metal was Satanic music.Anon