… . . . from the top of the Gorilla building . . . …
WHTZ (Z-100) and The Morning Zoo inspired many (mostly inferior) imitators in the 80’s, but none came close to the professionalism and creative genius of the original. This composite was a 1985 Billboard Magazine Award winner.
Some were under the impression that all you needed for a “Morning Zoo” was a crowd of people in the control room every morning, but Scott Shannon, Ross Brittain and the other (often celebrity) participants in the Z-100 Zoo set new (sometimes shocking) standards for mass-appeal music morning shows.