Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan;[1] December 3, 1931[2]) is a retired American popular music singer, actress, and game show panelist.
For the financier, see J. P. Morgan. For other people named Mary Morgan, see Mary Morgan (disambiguation).
Jaye P. Morgan
Early life[edit]
Morgan was born in Mancos[3][4] 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.[3] In the late 1940s, at Verdugo Hills High School in the Tujunga neighborhood of Los Angeles, she served as class treasurer (and got the nickname "Jaye P." after the banker J. P. Morgan) and sang at school assemblies, accompanied by her brother on guitar.[3] She was married briefly to Michael Baiano from 1954-1955.
Game show panelist[edit]
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 The Gong Show,[14] in which she achieved notoriety for flashing her breasts while on live camera during a Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine skit. NBC banned her from the program for the flashing incident.[15] The 1980 "behind-the-scenes" The Gong Show Movie features the breast-flashing footage.[16]
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,[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 Rhyme and Reason, Match Game, Make Me Laugh.
