IPhone purchased a song all on its own...

I have an iPhone and I purchased a song (Default: "Count on Me") via the iTunes download on my iPhone. I saw the download start and put the iPhone down for a few seconds. When I picked up my iPhone it had downloaded the song I wanted but had also purchased a song by Selena ("Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" - no I'm not kidding), charged it to my account, and downloaded it. I did not purchase this song, did not enter my password for the song, in fact I never even looked at anything by this artist. I didn't even know she existed. No offense to her, but her music isn't my thing.
So, somewhere there is a glitch in the iTunes functionality in my iPhone.
Has anyone else had this experience? Is iPhone required to ask for a password for each purchase download?
Any experiences or thoughts on this would be appreciated.

The folks at the iTunes store should be able to either refund of credit you for the song.
While leaving my 3 year-old unattended at the Mac he apparently loaded up iTunes and purchased a bunch of Grateful Dead (blech) music. After explaining this to customer support they credited my account but did explain that they typically don't do this.
Since then we've turned off 1-click purchases and given our son his own account on the Mac with no access to iTunes...

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