Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan; December 3, 1931) is an American singer, actress, and game show panelist.
Early life
Morgan was born in Mancos in Montezuma County in far southwestern Colorado. Her family moved to California by the time she was in high school. Morgan had six siblings; five brothers and one sister.
Career
thumb|180px|Morgan was not the only vocalist in her family. Three of her brothers were also singers. From top: Duke, Dick, and Charlie with Jaye P., for a 1959 appearance on [[The Jimmy Dean Show.]]
In 1953, Morgan made a recording of "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" issued by Derby Records, which made it to #26 on the U.S. Billboard record chart. Soon after, she received an RCA Victor recording contract, 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. 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.
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. Beginning January 11, 1954, she was a featured singer on the Robert Q. Lewis Show on CBS-TV.
In 1956, she had her own show, The Jaye P. Morgan Show, and made guest appearances on a number of other variety shows. She was a charter member of the Robert Q. Lewis "gang" on Lewis's weekday program on CBS, Later, in 1973, Morgan played herself in the episode "The Songwriter" of the sitcom The Odd Couple.
In 1978, Morgan guest-starred on The Muppet Show and sang "That Old Black Magic" as a duet with Dr. Teeth. Morgan made numerous appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson during this period, 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). in which she achieved notoriety for flashing her breasts while on live camera during a Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine performance. NBC banned her from the program for the flashing incident. The 1980 "behind-the-scenes" The Gong Show Movie features the breast-flashing footage.
Morgan also appeared on the Playboy Channel game show Everything Goes, and with her former Gong Show partner Jamie Farr on Hollywood Squares Game Show Week II in 2004.
Morgan appeared as herself in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, a 2003 semi-biographical film about the life of Chuck Barris, creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and The Newlywed Game.
She also appeared on Rhyme and Reason, Match Game, and Make Me Laugh.
Discography
Albums
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! Year
! Title
! Label and Number
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| 1953
| Jaye P. Morgan and Orchestra (10")
| Royale 18122
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| 1954
| Jaye P. Morgan and Orchestra (10")
| Royale 18147
|-
| 1954
| Jaye P. Morgan and Orchestra (10")
| Royale 18162
|-
| 1955
| Jaye P. Morgan Sings with Frank DeVol’s Orchestra
| Allegro Royale 1604
|-
| 1956
| Jaye P. Morgan
| RCA Victor LPM-1155
|-
| 1958
| Just You, Just Me
| RCA Victor LSP-1682
|-
| 1959
| Slow & Easy
| MGM E3774
|-
| 1960
| Up North
| MGM E3830
|-
| 1960
| Down South
| MGM E3867
|-
| 1961
| That Country Sound
| MGM E3940
|-
| 1962
| Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
| Tops Mayfair 9739
|-
| 1970
| What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
| Beverly Hills BHS-24
|-
| 1976
| Jaye P. Morgan
| Candor C-1001
|-
| 1983
| Lately!
| Palace PLP-S6540
|-
| 1995
| Jaye P. Morgan & Kaye Ballard – Long Time Friends
| AVL-95320
|}
Singles
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"|Year
! rowspan="2"|Single (A-side, B-side)<br /><small>Both sides from same album except where indicated</small>
! colspan="3"|Chart positions
! rowspan="2"|Album
|-
! width="35"|<sup>U.S.</sup>
! width="35"|<sup>US<br />Cashbox</sup>
! width="35"|<sup>U.S.<br />AC</sup>
|-
| 1953
| align="left"| "Just a Gigolo"<br /><small>b/w "Wasted Tears"</small>
| 22
|
|
| align="left" rowspan="5"|Jaye P. Morgan<small> (Rondo-Lette label)</small>
|-
| rowspan="5"|1954
| align="left"| "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"<br /><small>b/w "Operator 299"</small>
| 26
| 45
|
|-
| align="left"| "Ring Telephone Ring"<br /><small>b/w "Don't Tell Him"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "Nobody Met the Train"<br /><small>b/w "Life Was Made for Living"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "I Ain't Got the Man"<br /><small>b/w "Baby Don't Do It"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "That's All I Want from You"<br /><small>b/w "Dawn"</small>
| 3
| 6
|
| align="left" rowspan="3"|Non-album tracks
|-
| rowspan="13"| 1955
| align="left"| "Danger! Heartbreak Ahead" /
| 12
| 14
|
|-
| align="left"| "Softly Softly"
| flip
| 42
|
|-
| align="left"| "Have You Ever Been Lonely?"<br /><small>b/w "Life Was Made for Living"</small>
|
|
|
| align="left"|The House Of Jaye P. Morgan
|-
| align="left"| "Chee Chee-oo Chee"<small> (with Perry Como)</small> /
| 12
| 17
|
| align="left" rowspan="4"|Non-album tracks
|-
| align="left"| "Two Lost Souls"<small> (with Perry Como)</small>
| 18
| 26
|
|-
| align="left"| "The Longest Walk" /
| 6
| 12
|
|-
| align="left"| "Swanee"
| flip
| 48
|
|-
| align="left"| "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"<br /><small>b/w "Just a Gigolo"</small>
|
|
|
| align="left" rowspan="2"|The House of Jaye P. Morgan
|-
| align="left"| "Baby Don't Do It"<br /><small>b/w "Nobody Met the Train"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "If You Don't Want My Love" /
| 12
| 33
|
| align="left" rowspan="23"|Non-album tracks
|-
| align="left"| "Pepper Hot Baby"
| 14
| 19
|
|-
| align="left"| "Not One Goodbye" /
| 48
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "My Bewildered Heart"
|
| 47
|
|-
| rowspan="7"| 1956
| align="left"| "Get Up! Get Up!" /
| 83
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "Sweet Lips"
| 85
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "Lost in the Shuffle" /
| 69
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "Play for Keeps"
| 79
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "Johnny Casanova"<br /><small>b/w "The West Point Dress Parade"</small>
| 81
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "Just Love Me"<br /><small>b/w "The Call of the Wild"</small>
| 97
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "Mutual Admiration Society"<br /><small>b/w "If'n"<br />Both sides with Eddy Arnold</small>
| 47
| 24
|
|-
| rowspan="3"|1957
| align="left"|"I Thought It Was Over"<br /><small>b/w "Pledge Allegiance to Your Heart" </small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"|"Graduation Ring"<br /><small>b/w "You, You Romeo"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"|"There's a Dream in My Heart"<br /><small>b/w "Take a Chance" </small>
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3"|1958
| align="left"|"Tell Me More"<br /><small>b/w "My Blind Date"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"|"I Know, I Know, I Know"<br /><small>b/w "I Love You So Much It Hurts"<br />Both sides with The Morgan Brothers</small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"|"Star Dust"<small> (with The Morgan Brothers)</small><br /><small>b/w "Easy Does It"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="6"| 1959
| align="left"| "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" /
| 65
| 67
|
|-
| align="left"| "Miss You"
| 78
| 63
|
|-
| align="left"| "(It Took) One Kiss"<br /><small>b/w "My Reputation"</small>
|
| 70
|
|-
| align="left"| "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place"<br /><small>b/w "Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins" </small>
|
|
|
|-
| align="left"| "That Funny Feeling"<br /><small>b/w "Left My Gal in the Mountains"</small>
|
| 112
|
|-
| align="left"| "My Darling, My Darling"<br /><small>b/w "Thoughts of Love"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="4"|1960
| align="left"| "Half as Much"<br /><small>b/w "I Don't Want to Walk Without You"</small>
|
|
|
| align="left"|That Country Sound
|-
| align="left"| "I Wish I Didn't Love You So"<br /><small>b/w "I Understand"</small>
|
|
|
| align="left"|Non-album tracks
|-
| align="left"| "I Walk the Line"<br /><small>b/w "Wondering Where You Are" (Non-album track)</small>
| 66
| 55
|
| align="left" rowspan="2"|That Country Sound
|-
| align="left"| "When You Get What You Want"<br /><small>b/w "A World I Can't Live In"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| 1961
| align="left"| "Catch Me a Kiss"<br /><small>b/w "Close Your Eyes"</small>
|
|
|
| align="left" rowspan="3"|Non-album tracks
|-
| 1962
| align="left"| "A Heartache Named Johnny"<br /><small>b/w "He Thinks I Still Care"</small>
| 119
|
|
|-
| 1965
| align="left"| "Put a Ring on My Finger"<br /><small>b/w "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" </small>
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1970
| align="left"| "Love of a Gentle Man"<br /><small>b/w "Billy Sunshine"</small>
|
|
| 37
| align="left" rowspan="3"|What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
|-
| align="left"| "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life"<br /><small>b/w "Applause"</small>
|
|
| 40
|-
| align="left"| "I've Got an Awful Lot of Losing You to Do"<br /><small>b/w "He's Too Good For Me"</small>
|
|
|
|-
| 1971
| align="left"| "A Song for You"<br /><small>b/w "Do You Really Have a Heart" (from What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life)</small>
| 105
| 108
|
| align="left"|Non-album track
|-
|}