Jaye P. Morgan Dies: Singer And Risqué ‘Gong Show’ Judge Was 94

Yahoo ^ | August 26, 2026 | Greg Evans

[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.

[Leaning Right]

I have fond memories of Jaye P. Morgan and The Gong Show. The show was silly fun. It was a nice break from my college studies.

No one on the show worried about DEI or political correctness.

[Leaning Right]

Gene Gene the Dancing Machine!

And two guest appearances, if you get my drift.

😀

[lee martell]

I don’t think so. For most people under, say, 60, they wouldn’t know about Jaye P.

I have an idea who #3 might be.
He writes the songs.

[ConservativeStatement]

Season 4, episode 8 perhaps.

[Reily]

Thanks

[llevrok]

a little titter went through the crowd..................

[ConservativeStatement]

I assumed it wasn’t the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.

[themidnightskulker]

Tim Curry

[SkyDancer]

Not sure but some notable.

[Fledermaus]

I thought it was in the Gong Show movie.

[SkyDancer]

I like reading entertainment history so I know who she is/was.

[desertsolitaire]

Yes, I was unaware that host Chuck Barris had a CIA background.
Wild.

[Fledermaus]

Wasn’t that the movie?

They did things the network wouldn’t let them do.

I remember one time two girls double licked a Rocket popsicle.

Jamie Farr gonged them because he was excited. lol

Another was a Rabbi being paddled or something by girls while his wife ate pork.

Reminds me of R rated Candid Camera.

[Buttons12]

Shelley Fabares?

[Thank You Rush]

“”Tell me that my money is safe.””

LOL.. That JP Morgan was the only one that was familiar to me also....

[Political Junkie Too]

And Hayden Panettiere and Frank Beard, if you want to go back to last week.

-PJ

[ratzoe]

Besides Dolly, who is the third one?

Actually 4, Shelly Fabrare(sp?), Dolly, Tim Curry and Jaye P. Morgan

[TalBlack]

Wow I had no idea she was that accomplished. I thought she was some kind of lo talent hanger on. RIP.

[GSWarrior]

Shelley Fabares

[mass55th]

"Besides Dolly, who is the third one?"

British actor Tim Curry. Was in the original Rocky Horror Picture Show. Was the first Pennywise in Stephen King's "IT" movie. He played the Lord of Darkness in the Tom Cruise movie "Legend." Was also the Butler in the "Clue" movie.