ocr: How a piece of exercise equipment saved Matthew's career: As Girlfriend lay dormant with no label to release it, one Bud Scoppa, an A&R Vice President from Zoo Entertainment, had a hankering for a work-out on the stairmaster. He popped in the final mixes of Girlfriend-an album that the label had already passed on-and started to sweat. Enjoying the cardiovascular bene- fits of the music so much, Scopa decided to pena memo extolling the album's virtues. As he was doing so, Zoo president Lou Maglia heard the pure pop sounds coming from Scoppa's office and was equally smitten. The rest, as they sa ...
