Posted on 08/26/2026 3:01:36 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Jaye P. Morgan, the singer, actor, nightclub star and, perhaps most famously to fans of '70s game shows, the outrageously risqué panelist on Chuck Barris' The Gong Show, died of natural causes Monday, August 24, her family announced. She was 94.
According to attorney and longtime friend Mark Sendroff, Morgan had been living with her nephew and niece, Duke Morgan Spencer and Peggy Sue Spencer, in Longview, Washington, having previously lived for many years in the San Fernando Valley in California.
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And that makes three.
Yup and she may have been the first of the three. Gong Show had its moments.
God always has the final gong.
Other then game shows what TV and movies did she do?
Tell me that my money is safe.
Her fame was a little before my time of awareness.
I do recall her though, mostly as a guest
on game show Hollywood Squares, next to people like
Paul Lynde, Cliff Arquette and Morey Amsterdam.
In 1953, Morgan made a recording of “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries” issued by Derby Records,[6] which made it to #26 on the U.S. Billboard record chart. Soon after, she received an RCA Victor recording contract,[7] and she had five hits in one year, including her biggest hit “That’s All I Want from You”, which reached #3 on the chart.[8] Her other notable hits included “There’s a Dream in My Heart” by Rolande Maxwell Young, “The Longest Walk”, and “Pepper Hot Baby”. After spending six years with RCA Victor, Morgan joined MGM Records in 1959.[3]
From 1954 to 1955, Morgan was a vocalist on the ABC television series show Stop the Music. In November 1955, the British music magazine, NME, reported that Morgan was the top female vocalist in the U.S. Cash Box poll.[9] Beginning January 11, 1954, she was a featured singer on the Robert Q. Lewis Show on CBS-TV.[10]
In 1956, she had her own show, The Jaye P. Morgan Show, and made guest appearances on a number of other variety shows.[11] She was a charter member of the Robert Q. Lewis “gang” on Lewis’s weekday program on CBS,[3] and was featured on a special episode of The Jackie Gleason Show in which Lewis’s entire company substituted for the vacationing Gleason. In 1958, Morgan appeared on ABC’s Pat Boone Chevy Showroom. On October 6, 1960, she guest starred on NBC’s The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
In 1961, Morgan was cast as Sally Dwight in the episode “Money and the Minister” of the CBS anthology series, General Electric Theater, hosted by Ronald Reagan. In 1962, she played Patty Maxwell in “Patti’s Tune” of the CBS military sitcom-drama Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper. That same year, she was cast as Kitty Flanders in “That’s Showbiz” on NBC’s The Joey Bishop Show. In 1964, she portrayed the character Ruth Evans in the episode “Sunday Father” of the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour.
Although Morgan continued to spend considerable time in the 1960s and 1970s performing in nightclubs, she also continued to make additional appearances on television as well as in films. In 1964, she guest-starred on CBS’s My Three Sons as Susan Duvall in the episode “Second Chorus” and in 1966 “A Falling Star”, playing the fading singer Claudia Farrell.[12] Later, in 1973, Morgan played herself in the episode “The Songwriter” of the sitcom The Odd Couple.[12] That year she also appeared as Magda Valentine in the film The All-American Boy. She performed the theme song, “Coming into My Own,” of the short-lived NBC situation comedy Fay, starring Lee Grant, which aired from 1975 to 1976.[13]
In 1978, Morgan guest-starred on The Muppet Show and sang “That Old Black Magic” as a duet with Dr. Teeth.[12][14] Morgan made numerous appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson during this period,[15] and in the 1980s and into the early 1990s she performed again on the big screen, working in supportive roles in films such as Loose Shoes (1980), Night Patrol (1984), and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaye_P._Morgan
Trash tv used to be a lot more fun than modern trash tv. Seemed less cynical I guess
Thanks
An exceptional rack, to be sure.
Thanks
She was hilarious on the Gong Show. Love that show!
-SB
Yep, number three in the sequence.
One that I remember is a cameo on The Odd Couple.
Besides Dolly, who is the third one?
I have series on DVD. I will have to look for the episode.
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