Photo: Shelley Fabares | Jaye P. Morgan, 94 Years Old, An American Popular Music Singer, Actress, and Television Personality, Has Passed Away | By Isabelle Farina, Variety | Jaye P. Morgan, a singer, actress and frequent game show panelist in the 1970s, died Monday in Washington.
Her family announced her death and said she resided in Castle Rock, Washington.
Morgan’s singing career took off in 1953 with “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” closely followed by her biggest hit “That’s All I Want from You.” Other notable titles include “The Longest Walk” and “Pepper Hot Baby.”
Along with her singles, Morgan was a vocalist on the ABC television series show “Stop the Music.”
In 1956, she had her own show, “The Jaye P. Morgan Show,” and made guest appearances on a number of other variety shows including “The Jackie Gleason Show” and “The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.”
Morgan pivoted to acting in the 1960s. She was cast as Sally Dwight in the episode “Money and the Minister” of the CBS anthology series “General Electric Theater,” hosted by Ronald Reagan, followed by playing Patty Maxwell in “Patti’s Tune” of the CBS military sitcom-drama “Hennessy” and Ruth Evans in the episode “Sunday Father” of the NBC medical drama “The Eleventh Hour.”
In the ‘70s, Morgan was a regular panelist on “The Gong Show.” On one memorable episode, she flashed her breasts while on live camera during a “Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine” performance and NBC banned her from the program.
Morgan appeared often on “The Tonight Show” – she said she was Johnny Carson‘s guest about 150 times in New York and L.A. – where she earned her late-night notoriety. She guest-starred on “The Muppet Show” in 1978 later had small roles in “Night Patrol” and “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”
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Shelley Fabares, ‘Johnny Angel’, ‘Donna Reed Show’ and ‘One Day at a Time’ star, dies at 82
By Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times
Actress Shelley Fabares, known for her television roles as Francine Webster on the 1975 sitcom “One Day at a Time,” Mary Stone on “The Donna Reed Show,” and her Billboard Hot 100 song “Johnny Angel,” died Sunday in Los Angeles surrounded by her loved ones. She was 82.
In a statement to The Times, a family friend shared the news of the star’s death.
“To her family and friends, Shelley was a source of love, strength, laughter, and comfort… whose warmth, generosity, humor, and grace made an enduring difference in the lives of everyone who knew her,” the statement read. “She had a remarkable ability to make people feel welcomed, valued, and cared for.”
The family did not disclose the cause of death.
Fabares was born in Santa Monica in 1944. She began her acting career at the age of 3 and became a household name playing teenager Mary Stone on “The Donna Reed Show” from 1958 to 1963. Fabares frequently praised her on-screen mother Donna Reed, calling her a “second mother.”
Fabares went on to star alongside Elvis Presley in three films: “Girl Happy,” “Spinout” and “Clambake.”
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Janie Bradford Hobbs Dies, the Motown Songwriter Behind “Money (That’s What I Want)” and Other Hits Was 87
By Julie Stein, Parade | Janie Bradford Hobbs, the songwriter behind Motown‘s first hit, “Money (That’s What I Want),” has died at 87 following an extended illness at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital, her family announced Saturday, Aug. 22, according to Rolling Stone. Born in Charleston, Missouri, before later moving to Detroit, Bradford’s path to music history began almost by chance, when neighbor and singer Jackie Wilson introduced her to a young Berry Gordy in the late 1950s.
What started as a receptionist job at Motown quickly became something much bigger. “She became Motown’s first receptionist, but her talents quickly took her far beyond that desk,” Gordy said in a statement. “Janie was smart, clever, witty, and fun. She was also talented and determined.”
That talent showed in 1959, when Bradford joined Gordy at the piano and added the now-iconic line, “Your love gives me such a thrill, but your love don’t pay my bills. Gimme some money baby!” The result, “Money (That’s What I Want),” became Motown’s first hit single and was later covered by both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, cementing its place as one of the most influential songs of the era. (*Later covers by both John Belushi and The Flying Lizards would give their own spin on the hit.)
Bradford’s songwriting reach extended well beyond that hit. Over her quarter-century at Motown, she co-wrote “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” for Marvin Gaye, “Your Old Standby” for Mary Wells, and songs for the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and the Temptations, helping shape the sound that defined a generation.
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