How Madonna annoyed Z100 into making her a star: ‘Worst to First’ doc
nypost.comMadonna was just a girl knocking on doors and trying to get her song “Holiday” played on the radio. She was so desperate, she’d even make the trip out to Secaucus, NJ, where the new radio station Z100 had just elbowed its way to No.
1 in a crowded Big Apple market.“One day our music director came in and said, ‘There’s a lady out front who won’t go away. She comes every Tuesday and she insists we have to play her record,’ ” recalls Scott Shannon in the new documentary “Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York.” Shannon, who was the program director and host of the “Morning Zoo” show, said the track was popular in the clubs but hadn’t yet hit the airwaves.
Still, he said he’d play it if she stopped calling on them.“It became a pretty big hit for us. We were one of the first Top 40 stations to play her song.
She was so appreciative she said when she got big, she’d pay us back. Well, we never thought she was going to be that big,” Shannon, who now helms the morning slot at WCBS-FM, told The Post.
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