- In an ironic twist, Jaye P. was fired from the very racy The Gong Show (1976) program by going TOO far. She exposed her breasts on national TV. The show, however, was lost without her, thus signaling the end.
- In the Spring of 1959 Jaye P. had charted success with " Are You Lonesome Tonight" (#65 US Pop), over a year before it became a mega hit for Elvis Presley.
- Began to be called "J.P." in 1947 when she was class treasurer of her high school (a reference to financier John Pierpont Morgan).
- Began as a big band vocalist and had a #1 hit with "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries" in 1949-1950.
- Ex-sister-in-law of Yvonne De Carlo.
- Had five top hits in 1955: That's All I Want From You (#5), The Longest Walk (#6), Danger, Heartbreak Ahead (#12), If You Don't Want My Love (#12) and Pepper Hot Baby (#14).
- 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.
- In 1956, she had her own show, The Jaye P. Morgan Show, and made guest appearances on a number of other variety shows.
- On October 6, 1960, she guest starred on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
- In November 1955, the British music magazine, NME, reported that Morgan was the top female vocalist in the U.S. Cash Box poll.
- In 1958, Morgan appeared on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom.
- Morgan appeared as herself in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,[12] a 2003 semi-biographical film about the life of Chuck Barris, creator of The Gong Show as well as television game shows The Dating Game, and The Newlywed Game.
- From 1976 to 1978, Morgan was a regular panelist on The Gong Show, from which she was ultimately fired for flashing her breasts.
- In 1961, Morgan was cast as Sally Dwight in the episode "Money and the Minister" of the CBS anthology series, General Electric Theater, hosted by Ronald Reagan.
- Morgan had six siblings; five brothers and one sister.
- She also appeared on the Playboy Channel game show Everything Goes, and with her former Gong partner Jamie Farr on Hollywood Squares Game Show Week II in 2004.
- From 1954 to 1955, Morgan was a vocalist on the ABC television series show Stop the Music.
- She spent considerable time in the 1960s making nightclub appearances.
- In 1962, she played Patty Maxwell in "Patti's Tune" of the CBS military sitcom/drama Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper. That same year, she was cast as Kitty Flanders in "That's Showbiz" on NBC's The Joey Bishop Show.
- In 1964, Morgan was cast as Ruth Evans in the episode "Sunday Father" of the NBC medical drama, The Eleventh Hour.
- She was a charter member of the Robert Q. Lewis "gang" on Lewis's weekday program on CBS, and was featured on a special episode of The Jackie Gleason Show in which Lewis's entire company substituted for the vacationing Gleason.
- In 1950, a year after her graduation from high school, 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.
- Beginning January 11, 1954, she was a featured singer on the Robert Q. Lewis Show on CBS-TV.
- She is nowadays a retired American popular music singer, actress, and game show panelist.
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