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Madonna 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. But the Material Girl stayed true to her word.After making the movie “Who’s That Girl” in 1987, she struck a deal to allow Z100 to broadcast from the world premiere.
“We had a stage built in the middle of Times Square, and she came out in this beautiful white gown and greeted the crowd. There must have been 10,000 people,” he said.It was a testament to the power of Z100, which became a juggernaut and full-fledged anointer of pop and rock stars like Duran Duran, Bon Jovi and Debbie Gibson.“We were one of the first to play Debbie. Her mother was a great promoter.
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