AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Jaye P. Morgan, hitmaking singer and irreverent 'Gong Show' panelist, dead at 94
Jaye P. Morgan, the 1950s pop singer who became a household name for her bawdy antics as a celebrity judge on The Gong Show, has died at 94 in Castle Rock, Washington, closing a career that spanned vaudeville stages, Billboard charts, and late-night television. Morgan's family announced her death on Monday, The Hollywood Reporter reported. […] The post Jaye P. Morgan, hitmaking singer and irreverent 'Gong Show' panelist, dead at 94 appeared first on American Almanac .
Jaye P. Morgan, the 1950s pop singer who became a household name for her bawdy antics as a celebrity judge on The Gong Show, has died at 94 in Castle Rock, Washington, closing a career that spanned vaudeville stages, Billboard charts, and late-night television. Morgan's family announced her death on Monday, The Hollywood Reporter reported . No cause of death was disclosed. She is survived by a son, Paul. Born Mary Margaret Morgan on December 3, 1931, in a log cabin in Mancos, Colorado, she was performing before she could read. By age three, she had joined a vaudeville act with her father, mother, five brothers, and a sister. The Morgan family landed a spot in the 1935 Pat O'Brien movie musical Stars Over Broadway, and eventually…Open