Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan | |
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Born | Mary Margaret Morgan December 3, 1931 Mancos, Colorado, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
Years active | 1951–1984 |
Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan;[1] December 3, 1931[2]) is a retired American popular music singer, actress, and game show panelist.
Early life
Morgan was born in
Career
In 1953, Morgan made a
From 1954 to 1955, Morgan was a vocalist on the
In 1956, she had her own show, The Jaye P. Morgan Show, and made guest appearances on a number of other variety shows.[10] 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 The 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
She spent considerable time in the 1960s making nightclub appearances. In 1966, she guest starred on CBS's My Three Sons as fading singer Claudia Farrell in the episode "A Falling Star".[11]
In 1973, Morgan played herself in the episode "The Songwriter" of the sitcom, The Odd Couple.[11] She appeared as Magda Valentine in the 1973 film The All-American Boy.
Morgan guest starred on The Muppet Show in 1978, where she sang "That Old Black Magic" as a duet with Dr. Teeth.[11][12]
Morgan had smaller roles in films including Loose Shoes (1980), Night Patrol (1984), and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).[11]
Morgan made numerous appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[13]
Game show panelist
One of Morgan's first appearances as a game show panelist was on the 1970 pilot for "The Honeymoon Game" (a then re-working of earlier pilots for The Joker's Wild). She represented the category of Music on the show, asking questions to the contestants in that category.
From 1976 to 1978, Morgan was a regular panelist on
Morgan also appeared on the
Morgan appeared as herself in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,[17] a 2003 semi-biographical film about the life of Chuck Barris, creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and The Newlywed Game.[11][18]
She also appeared on
Discography
Albums
Year | Title | Label and Number |
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1953 | Jaye P. Morgan and Orchestra (10") | Royale 18122 |
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 LPM-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
Year | Single (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated |
Chart positions | Album | ||
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U.S. | US
Cashbox |
U.S.
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1953 | "Just a Gigolo" b/w "Wasted Tears" |
22 | Jaye P. Morgan (Rondo-Lette label) | ||
1954 | "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" b/w "Operator 299" |
26 | 45 | ||
"Ring Telephone Ring" b/w "Don't Tell Him" |
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"Nobody Met the Train" b/w "Life Was Made for Living" |
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"I Ain't Got the Man" b/w "Baby Don't Do It" |
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"That's All I Want from You" b/w "Dawn" |
3 | 6 | Non-album tracks | ||
1955 | "Danger! Heartbreak Ahead" / | 12 | 14 | ||
"Softly Softly" | flip | 42 | |||
"Have You Ever Been Lonely" b/w "Life Was Made for Living" |
The House Of Jaye P. Morgan | ||||
"Chee Chee-oo Chee" (with Perry Como) / | 12 | 17 | Non-album tracks | ||
"Two Lost Souls" (with Perry Como) | 18 | 26 | |||
"The Longest Walk" / | 6 | 12 | |||
"Swanee" | flip | 48 | |||
"Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" b/w "Just a Gigolo" |
The House of Jaye P. Morgan | ||||
"Baby Don't Do It" b/w "Nobody Met the Train" |
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"If You Don't Want My Love" / | 12 | 33 | Non-album tracks | ||
"Pepper Hot Baby" | 14 | 19 | |||
"Not One Goodbye" / | 48 | ||||
"My Bewildered Heart" | 47 | ||||
1956 | "Get Up! Get Up!" / | 83 | |||
"Sweet Lips" | 85 | ||||
"Lost in the Shuffle" / | 69 | ||||
"Play for Keeps" | 79 | ||||
"Johnny Casanova" b/w "The West Point Dress Parade" |
81 | ||||
"Just Love Me" b/w "The Call of the Wild" |
97 | ||||
"Mutual Admiration Society" b/w "If'n" Both sides with Eddy Arnold |
47 | 24 | |||
1957 | "I Thought It Was Over" b/w "Pledge Allegiance to Your Heart" |
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"Graduation Ring" b/w "You, You Romeo" |
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"There's a Dream in My Heart" b/w "Take a Chance" |
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1958 | "Tell Me More" b/w "My Blind Date" |
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"I Know, I Know, I Know" b/w "I Love You So Much It Hurts" Both sides with The Morgan Brothers |
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"Star Dust" (with The Morgan Brothers) b/w "Easy Does It" |
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1959 | " Are You Lonesome Tonight " /
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65 | 67 | ||
"Miss You" | 78 | 63 | |||
"(It Took) One Kiss" b/w "My Reputation" |
70 | ||||
"Somebody Else Is Taking My Place" b/w "Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins" |
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"That Funny Feeling" b/w "Left My Gal in the Mountains" |
112 | ||||
"My Darling, My Darling" b/w "Thoughts of Love" |
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1960 | "Half As Much" b/w "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" |
That Country Sound | |||
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" b/w "I Understand" |
Non-album tracks | ||||
"I Walk the Line" b/w "Wondering Where You Are" (Non-album track) |
66 | 55 | That Country Sound | ||
"When You Get What You Want" b/w "A World I Can't Live In" |
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1961 | "Catch Me a Kiss" b/w "Close Your Eyes" |
Non-album tracks | |||
1962 | "A Heartache Named Johnny" b/w "He Thinks I Still Care" |
119 | |||
1965 | "Put a Ring on My Finger" b/w "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" |
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1970 | "Love of a Gentle Man" b/w "Billy Sunshine" |
37 | What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life | ||
" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life "b/w "Applause" |
40 | ||||
"I've Got an Awful Lot of Losing You to Do" b/w "He's Too Good For Me" |
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1971 | "A Song for You" b/w "Do You Really Have a Heart" (from What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life) |
105 | 108 | Non-album track |
References
- ProQuest 1040459012.
Jaye P. (born Mary Margaret) Morgan comes from a show business family. She debuted at age three with a bouncer called 'I May Be Little, But I'm Loud.' The Morgan Family broke up with the death of their father in 1945. When the blond songstress was 18, she won an audition at the Hollywood Palladium to sing with the Frank De Vol's band. She sang with him for three years. Her first national recognition came when she was with the Robert Q. Lewis show on New York's WCBS.
- ProQuest 2746414577.
Singer Jaye P. Morgan is 91. Rock singer Ozzy Osborne is 74.
See also:- "Today in History: Today's Birthdays". Asbury Park Press. December 3, 1992. p. 22. ProQuest 2014108215.
Singer Jaye P. Morgan is 61. Rock singer Ozzy Osborne is 44.
- "Today in History: Today's Birthdays". Asbury Park Press. December 3, 1992. p. 22.
- ^ a b c d e Ovington, Reg (August 22, 1954). "TV is Banking on Jaye P. Morgan". Reading Eagle. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
- ^ Feather, Leonard (December 20, 1992). "Next Role For Jaye P. Morgan: A Jazz Singer". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Jaye P. Morgan - Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries". Discogs. August 6, 2023.
- ISBN 978-0738565781.
- ISBN 978-0595361793.
- ISBN 978-0600576020.
- ^ "Monday (11)" (PDF). Ross Reports on Television. January 11, 1954. p. 1. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0786486410.
- ^ a b c d e "Jaye P. Morgan". TV Guide. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
- ISBN 978-0786453757.
- ^
- 24 November 1972, NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" with Tony Randall, David Brenner, Popov the Clown, Jaye P. Morgan, Mark Stone.
- https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/pictured-musical-guest-jaye-p-morgan-performs-on-november-news-photo/452196676
- https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/pictured-musical-guest-jaye-p-morgan-during-an-interview-news-photo/452196656
- https://pantagraph.com/johnny-carson-vault-series-is-an-interesting-look-at-life-in-the-1970s/article_a4683511-5269-5557-a331-34585c30a94a.html
- https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/pictured-singer-jaye-p-morgan-performing-on-february-9th-news-photo/649651922
- ^ https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/people/jaye-p-morgan
- ^ Eakin, Marah; Teti, John; Adams, Erik (June 16, 2014). "Bonus round stars: 9 celebrities who found their greatest fame on game shows". The A.V. Club. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
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- ^ "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". movies.com. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ^ Phillips, Jevon (March 22, 2017). "Chuck Barris, creator of 'The Gong Show' and 'The Dating Game,' dies at 87". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
External links
- Official website
- Jaye P. Morgan photos
- Jaye P. Morgan at AllMusic
- Jaye P. Morgan discography at Discogs
- Jaye P. Morgan at IMDb