{"id":872684,"date":"2026-08-26T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872684\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:50:09","slug":"jaye-p-morgan-dead-the-gong-show-panelist-was-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872684\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaye P. Morgan Dead: ‘The Gong Show’ Panelist Was 94"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJaye P. Morgan, a singer, actress and frequent game show panelist in the 1970s, died Monday in Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHer family announced<\/a> her death and said she resided in Castle Rock, Washington.<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan\u2019s singing career took off in 1953 with \u201cLife Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,\u201d closely followed by her biggest hit \u201cThat\u2019s All I Want from You.\u201d Other notable titles include\u00a0\u201cThe Longest Walk\u201d and \u201cPepper Hot Baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with her singles, Morgan was a vocalist on the ABC television series show \u201cStop the Music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1956, she had her own show, \u201cThe Jaye P. Morgan Show,\u201d and made guest appearances on a number of other variety shows including \u201cThe Jackie Gleason Show\u201d and \u201cThe Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan pivoted to acting in the 1960s. She was cast as Sally Dwight in the episode \u201cMoney and the Minister\u201d of the CBS anthology series \u201cGeneral Electric Theater,\u201d hosted by Ronald Reagan, followed by playing Patty Maxwell in \u201cPatti\u2019s Tune\u201d of the CBS military sitcom-drama \u201cHennessy\u201d and Ruth Evans in the episode \u201cSunday Father\u201d of the NBC medical drama \u201cThe Eleventh Hour.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the \u201870s, Morgan was a regular panelist on \u201cThe Gong Show<\/a>.\u201d On one memorable episode, she flashed her breasts while on live camera during a \u201cGene, Gene, the Dancing Machine\u201d performance and NBC banned her from the program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan appeared often on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d \u2014 she said she was Johnny Carson\u2018s guest about 150 times in New York and L.A. \u2014 where she earned her late-night notoriety.\u00a0She guest-starred on \u201cThe Muppet Show\u201d in 1978 later had small roles in \u201cNight Patrol\u201d and \u201cHome Alone 2: Lost in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJohnny is very raunchy,\u201d she told The New York Times in 1981. \u201cWe used to send each other the filthiest telegrams and get them delivered because we cast them in unusual words. It was fun to put anything over on any network. You have to make them worry constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn Mary Margaret Morgan on Dec. 3, 1931, in a log cabin in Mancos, Colorado, her family moved to Los Angeles, and she was nicknamed \u201cJaye P.\u201d after the banker J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan. She married pianist-composer Artie Kane. She is survived by her son Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaye P. Morgan, a singer, actress and frequent game show panelist in the 1970s, died Monday in Washington.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,302937],"class_list":["post-872684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-the-gong-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}