Jaye P. Morgan, one of the top female recording artists of the 1950s with seven top 40 pop hits in 1954-55 alone, including “That’s All I Want From You,” and who later became a frequent talk show guest and game show panelist, infamously taking off her shirt on The Gong Show, has died. She was 94.

Morgan died Monday of natural causes in Longview, Washington, said Mark Sendroff, longtime attorney and friend. She had been living with her nephew and niece, Duke Morgan Spencer and Peggy Sue Spencer.

Morgan’s biggest hit was 1954’s “That’s All I Want From You,” which reached No. 3 on the Most Played by Jockeys chart and No. 5 on the Best Sellers in Stores list. In the Billboard Hot 100 era, she scored three hits: “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (No. 65 in 1959); “Miss You” (No. 78, 1959); and “I Walk the Line” (No. 66, 1960).

Later, she would become a regular guest on The Tonight Show and make appearances with Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Mike Douglas as well as spots on The Love Boat and Fantasy Island. But it was her years hamming it up as a celebrity judge — along with Jamie Farr and Rip Taylor — on the chaotic The Gong Show starting in 1976 that cemented her fame.

On the show, amateur performers tried out their acts, and when one of the judges couldn’t stand it anymore, they smashed a gong, ending the proceedings. Whichever performer won the day’s show received a check for the random amount of $516.32.

On one episode, Eugene Patton — the dancing stagehand performing as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine — started his thing when Morgan opened her shirt to expose her breasts, helping bring an end to the show’s run on NBC in 1978.

“It paid good money, and it was great exposure. I really enjoyed it,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1992.

“Jaye P. Morgan’s devil-may-care ad libs on television game shows have probably made her more famous as a personality than as a singer,” The New York Times wrote in 1984. “But the same kooky recklessness that inspires Miss Morgan’s remarks is also a part of her musical sensibility.”

Her film credits include The All-American Boy with Jon Voight, Loose Shoes, The Gong Show Movie, Night Patrol and the 2002 Miramax release Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney.

Jaye P. Morgan’s early life

Morgan was born Mary Margaret Morgan in a log cabin in Mancos, Colorado, and her show business career started early. At the age of 3, she was part of the Morgan Family, a traveling vaudeville act that included her mother, her father, her sister and five brothers. The group disbanded after their father’s death in 1945.

Morgan was class treasurer of her California high school and her peers nicknamed her J.P. after the 19th century financier J.P. Morgan. She later feminized it by changing the initial J to Jaye.

But by the time she was 17, she was singing professionally again, and in 1950 she joined Frank De Vol’s orchestra, singing with it for three years.

Her recording career got underway via “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries” and “Just a Gigolo” with De Vol on a small label, Derby Records, that reached No. 26 on the Billboard chart. That led RCA Records to come calling with a recording contract.

She was a regular on the Robert Q. Lewis national daytime variety TV show and the nighttime game show “Stop the Music” hosted by Bert Parks. In 1954, DownBeat magazine’s annual DJ poll crowned her best new female singer of the year. She took her nightclub act on the road and made her Las Vegas debut at the New Frontier Hotel & Casino.

Morgan’s onscreen career

Morgan even got her own TV show in 1956 — The Jaye P. Morgan Show, which featured four of her brothers. Her solo albums include Jaye P. Morgan and a joint album with Kaye Ballard called Long Time Friends. She scored two hits on Billboard‘s Adult Contemporary (which started in 1961): “Love of a Gentle Man” reached No. 37 and “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life” reached No. 40, both in 1970.

An appearance on The Tonight Show opened up a career for her on television talk shows and she kept returning to Johnny Carson for five years. “I take my body everyplace I go,” she joked to the host in a 1972 episode. She also was a guest on The Odd Couple playing herself and singing their goofy song “Happy, Peppy and Bursting with Love.”

During one memorable episode of The Muppet Show, Morgan appeared in a bird costume and seemed unhappy she was there at all. When Kermit tells her it’s a thrill to have her on, she replies: “I’m really indifferent about being here.” Kermit is aghast, calling the opening number cute. “I hate cute,” replies Morgan.

Other Morgan credits include a role in Home Alone 2, with Macaulay Culkin, appearances on The Love Boat and Fantasy Island, and co-starring with Eddie Bracken in the national tour of Sugar Babies.

Married and divorced three times, Morgan is survived by a son, Paul Kane.

Hit-Boy revealed that he and Nas have had a falling-out, despite the critically acclaimed work they’ve done together over the past several years.

The West Coast beatmaker sat down with DJ Vlad and Elliott Wilson recently and mentioned that he and the Queens legend aren’t on speaking terms anymore and he doesn’t see them ever collaborating again. “I ain’t spoke to Nas in three years,” Hit-Boy admitted. “We did six albums, 80 songs in three years. I produced almost every single song on his album that won a Grammy, King’s Disease.”

He added: “We did a lot of great work, but I don’t see us working again.” 

He was then asked by Wilson if there was any specific reason as to why they fell out, but Hit didn’t really want to get into specifics. “It’s a lot of reasons, you know what I mean?” he said. “But it’s something I don’t really wanna dig too deep in ’cause the sh– is pretty deep. Respect to what we did get accomplished in three years.”

From 2020 to 2023, Nas and Hit-Boy made King’s Disease, King’s Disease II, Magic, King’s Disease III, Magic 2 and Magic 3, with their King’s Disease series earning them three Grammy nominations, including a win for best rap album in 2021.

Billboard has reached out to Nas’ team for comment.

You can check out the clip below. (You’ll have to subscribe to DJ Vlad’s YouTube channel in order to watch the full conversation.)

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College merch usually falls into two categories: the sweatshirt you wear because it’s freezing in the library and the sweatshirt you wear because you’re actually going to the tailgate. Parke is making a case for a third option — and its new collegiate collection comes with some serious music history.

The viral clothing brand has partnered with sports lifestyle company ’47 for its first licensed collegiate collection, bringing its signature mocknecks and other staples to 10 universities. The collection launched Aug. 25 and includes Auburn, Indiana, Georgia, Michigan, Alabama, Syracuse, Florida, Ole Miss, UNC and the University of Texas at Austin.

The collection includes officially licensed apparel and accessories, including Parke’s signature fleece mockneck sweatshirt, zip-up mocknecks, boxer shorts, boxer-style sweatpants, coordinating claw clips and ’47 baseball caps. Each piece comes in the school’s official Pantone colors, with many fleece styles featuring embroidered school patches, printed graphics or a combination of both. Select pieces use the schools’ colors without a logo for a more understated take on collegiate apparel.

The hats are available in one size with adjustable snapback or strapback closures. The collection is being sold online in limited quantities while supplies last, but shoppers may want to move quickly: Many styles have already sold out within minutes.

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The launch marks a new category for Parke, which was founded in 2022 and initially gained attention for its reworked denim before expanding into limited-release loungewear. Its signature mockneck sweatshirts became particularly popular on social media and developed a reputation for selling out quickly. In April 2026, the brand expanded its retail presence to Target stores nationwide.

The 10-school lineup also includes several universities with ties to music history, from Madonna and Iggy Pop at Michigan to Lou Reed at Syracuse and Lionel Richie and the late Jimmy Buffett at Auburn. Michigan is also the alma mater of songwriting duo Pasek and Paul, whose credits include The Greatest Showman and Dear Evan Hansen.

The Parke x ’47 Collegiate Collection is available online while supplies last, adding a new chapter to the brand’s growing lineup of limited-release apparel.

For seven straight decades, from the 1960s on through the 2020s, the late Dolly Parton charted an iconic string of 50 albums on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart — including 15 top 40-charted sets.

From her debut with Porter Wagoner on Just the Two of Us in 1969, on through her most recent new entry, 2023’s Rockstar, the singer-songwriter left a remarkable impression on Billboard’s signature album chart.

Parton notched four early albums on the Billboard 200 with her former TV co-star and duet partner Wagoner in 1969-71. She charted her first solo entry also in 1969, with My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy.

Parton would not reach the top 40 of the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart until 1978, when Here You Come Again climbed to a No. 20 peak off the strength of its smash title track. The single sailed to No. 3 on the overall Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, and marked her first of eight top 40 hits on the ranking.

After the Here You Come Again album, Parton would hit the top 40 again in short order with Heartbreaker (No. 27 in 1978), Great Balls of Fire (No. 40 in 1979) and 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs (No. 11 in 1981). The latter boasted her first Hot 100 No. 1 in “9 to 5,” which also scored Parton her first Academy Award nomination, for best original song (from the film of the same name in which Parton co-starred with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin).

Parton would hit the top 40 of the Billboard 200 again in late 1984 with her holiday album Once Upon a Christmas, with Kenny Rogers. Just a year before, the pair teamed up on Parton’s second Hot 100 No. 1, “Islands in the Stream.”

In 1987, Parton joined Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris for the successful Trio album, which reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and granted Parton her first top 10 on the chart. Trio would garner Parton her first, and so far only, Grammy Award nomination for album of the year.

In the 1990s, Parton notched two more top 40 albums on the Billboard 200 with Eagle When She Flies (No. 24 in 1991) and Slow Dancing With the Moon (No. 16 in 1993). In the 2000s, she brought Backwoods Barbie to the top 40, hitting No. 17 in 2009.

In 2014, Parton achieved her first top 10 on the Billboard 200 unaccompanied by any other acts, as Blue Smoke debuted and peaked at No. 6. She followed it with another top 40 album two years later, Pure & Simple, which hit No. 11.

In the 2020s, Parton has claimed four new top 40-charted albums — more than in any other decade. In 2020, she reached No. 16 with A Holly Dolly Christmas and followed it with Run, Rose, Run (No. 34 in 2022) and the best-of compilation Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection (No. 27 in 2022).

In 2023, Parton claimed her highest charting Billboard 200 album ever, as the all-star collabrations project Rockstar debuted and peaked at No. 3.

The Rockstar project was promoted as Parton’s first rock album, and its recording was sparked by Parton’s induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. Through her career, Parton primarily recorded country music, but took detours (via albums and songs) into such genres as Americana/folk, bluegrass, children’s music, Christian, dance/electronic and pop.

The 30-song Rockstar album mixed covers and original tunes and included guests such as Pat Benatar, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Chris Stapleton, Ringo Starr, Sting and Steven Tyler.

Sister duo Aly & AJ have unexpectedly canceled their November and December tour dates after Aly Michalka landed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: her Broadway debut.

In a statement shared Wednesday (Aug. 26) on Instagram, Aly announced that they will no longer be able to play their scheduled dates beginning Nov. 28 in Cincinnati through Dec. 19 in Anaheim. She explained that she had been given the opportunity to make her Broadway debut this fall as William Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway in & Juliet, a chance she said she “couldn’t pass up.”

“Unfortunately, that means we won’t be able to play our November + December tour dates as planned,” the caption reads. “We’re so sorry to everyone who was looking forward to these shows. We were too, and we don’t take for granted the time, travel, and planning that goes into coming to see us.”

The affected dates include stops in Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Madison, Des Plaines, West Des Moines, Columbia, Cheyenne, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Albuquerque, Tucson and Anaheim.

In the comments, fans congratulated Aly on her Broadway debut while others shared their disappointment over not being able to see the duo live. As a consolation for fans who had planned to attend, Aly & AJ shared an unreleased live album, which they are making available to download or stream for free. “Since we can’t spend those nights together, we wanted to give you a little something from the road,” Aly wrote.

“We love you and can’t wait to see you again soon,” she added.

See the full Instagram post below.

Kehlani is pressing pause on her world tour and will focus on getting her health back to where it needs to be. The Grammy-winning singer announced Wednesday (Aug. 26) on social media that she’s canceling her next two shows in New Jersey and Maryland on the Kehlani World Tour after being hospitalized for a painful illness that made her unable to swallow.

“After two off days feeling completely normal.. ive been up all night unable to swallow & in so much pain,” she wrote. “I just left the hospital & am not cleared to sing for the next two shows. i’m so sorry Camden & DC. my team is working on a solution.”

Kehlani revealed that the trek will restart on Aug. 29 at the Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront in Richmond, Virginia.

She continued: “Breaks my heart to have to ever do this. i do everything i’m supposed to to ensure my health stays up to par & it still isn’t guaranteed. we will pick back up in Virginia.”

Kehlani had been prioritizing her health and mental well-being while on the road, as she’s been making stops at bathhouses, yoga studios and wellness centers across North America. The tour still has plenty of runway left and will be running through September and wrapping up in early October with a show in San Francisco.

The “Folded” singer is the cover star of Billboard‘s 2026 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players issue, which features Kehlani speaking with her friend and collaborator Leon Thomas. During the conversation, Kehlani dispelled the narrative that R&B is dying.

“I hate the idea that R&B is dead,” she said. “It’s never gone anywhere. People are just a little lazy in looking up new artists to dive into. There’s plenty everywhere you look. I’m finding someone I like every day.”

The 31-year-old released her self-titled album in April, which reached No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart and earned a top five debut on the Billboard 200. 

Billboard has reached out to Kehlani’s reps for further comment.

Dolly Parton built an unparalleled career in country music, charting more than 100 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs ranking and earning 25 No. 1s — the most among women all-time. But Parton, who died Tuesday in Nashville at age 80, also ventured into other genres, even finding success on Billboard’s dance charts.

Parton’s first foray into dance music came in 1978, when she released the disco-influenced country album Heartbreaker. The set reached No. 5 on the Top Country Albums chart (though it long predated the 2001 launch of Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart).

Heartbreaker generated Parton’s first dance hit in the double-sided single “Baby I’m Burnin’”/“I Wanna Fall in Love,” which peaked at No. 15 in early 1979 on the (now-inactive) Dance Club Songs chart.

Parton returned to Dance Club Songs in 1981 with another paired entry, “9 to 5”/“House of the Rising Sun.” The former served as the famed theme to the film of the same name, in which Parton co-starred, while the latter was her take on the traditional folk ballad.,

She made three more appearances on Dance Club Songs: with “Potential New Boyfriend” in 1983, bolstered by a nearly six-minute extended dance mix; her 1997 cover of Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train,” which received several dance remixes, including one featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo; and, following a two-decade-plus absence, “Faith,” with Galantis and featuring Mr. Probz, in 2020.

“Faith,” a dance reworking of John Hiatt’s 1987 song “Have a Little Faith in Me,” gave Parton a No. 1 on a dance chart at last, as it topped Dance Airplay in 2019. It also reached No. 10 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.

When Parton announced “Faith” at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 2019, she noted that she was prioritizing the release of positive, uplifting music. “This world is just so dark and ugly and awful … so I’m going to make it my business to try to do songs that are more uplifting, not all Christian-based songs, but songs about better things,” she said. “Do better, and have a little more love, a little more light and don’t be so dark and dirty.”

During her lifetime, Parton topped five of Billboard’s currently published radio charts: Adult Contemporary, Country Airplay, Christian Airplay, Christian AC Airplay and Dance Airplay.

Parton’s genre-spanning exploration continued through her most recent studio album, Rockstar, in 2023. The set, her 49th studio release, earned the icon her first No. 1 on a Billboard rock chart when it spent a week atop the Top Rock Albums list. It also became her highest-charted entry on the Billboard 200 when it debuted and peaked at No. 3. The collection includes covers of rock classics and collaborations with many of the genre’s biggest names, including Lynyrd Skynyrd on “Free Bird,” Joan Jett on “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on “Let It Be.”

Troye Sivan isn’t losing a wink of sleep over the concept of first-week sales. For his upcoming fourth studio album, She’s the Best, the Australian pop star has something bigger in mind: making something people remember.

“I honest to God could not tell you what my first-week sales [are],” Sivan said during an appearance on Las Culturistas With Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. “I’ve just never really been numbers-minded when it comes to music stuff.”

Instead, Sivan said the metric that matters most to him is whether the album leaves a mark on pop culture.

“The heartbreaking thing, like rather than it only [selling] however many thousand or whatever, would be if it went by without any sort of cultural impact,” he said. “I would be devastated.”

That mind-set does make sense for the singer, given the fact that his previous era became one of the most visible queer-pop moments of the past few years. Sivan’s 2023 album Something to Give Each Other debuted at No. 20 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Dance/Electronic Albums chart, while its singles “Rush” and “One of Your Girls” helped earn him spots on the Billboard Hot 100.

The era eventually expanded beyond the album itself, culminating in Sivan and Charli xcx‘s 2024 SWEAT Tour — the kind of pop-cultural moment Sivan says he hopes he can create again.

“I think back to those moments of like the first time I watched Moulin Rouge! or the first time I saw the ‘Dirrty’ video from Christina Aguilera,” he explained. “Those things, those sort of moments, I’m obsessed with the idea of being able to try and give that to people.”

If Something to Give Each Other was Sivan’s exercise in “perfect pop,” his new album is cooking up to be something a little messier — and, in his words, more expressive.

“I do feel like this album … is the most potent distillation of the references, musical references, that have made me the person that I am,” he said.

Those references run the gamut. Sivan pointed to Janet Jackson’s “Together Again” as one musical touchstone, while describing the album as influenced by late-’90s grunge-pop á la Marcy Playground, with even some Fatboy Slim energy thrown into the mix. The result, he said, is intentionally “chaotic” and layered.

That was a deliberate departure from his old approach.

“My last album, my goal was like perfect pop,” Sivan said, describing himself as a “student of the school of Max Martin and Swedish people.” But after spending years obsessing over the mechanics of a pristine pop song, he felt a natural “pendulum swing” toward something more expressive.

“I made a lot of the album with my little brother,” he said. “I made a lot of the album at home.”

And he isn’t interested in over-explaining the new era before listeners get to experience it. Sivan said the rollout for She’s the Best will be “very quick,” partly because he wants fans to hear the project in full rather than spend months dissecting individual pieces.

“I think the album is best experienced when listened top to bottom,” he said. “It’s like a journey.”

That journey officially began Aug. 14 with the release of “She’s the Best,” the title track and lead single from the album, which arrives Oct. 9. The record is his first full-length project since Something to Give Each Other and his first new music since signing with Interscope Records.

The title track’s accompanying video, directed by Gordon von Steiner and co-starring Nicole Kidman, also gives a glimpse at the scale of Sivan’s latest visual world. The video follows previous collaborations between Sivan and von Steiner, including “Rush” and “One of Your Girls,” while bringing Kidman — Sivan’s fellow Australian and Boy Erased co-star — into this new album’s realm.

And when Sivan played an unreleased song and its video for the Las Culturistas hosts during the interview, their reaction suggested he may already be onto the kind of cultural moment he says he wants. “That’s gonna be a huge f—ing moment,” host Matt Rogers declared.

For Sivan, though, the goal isn’t simply to make a bigger pop moment than the last one. It’s to make something that lasts.

“I think to me personally this one is going to age well,” he said. “I think I’m gonna look back on it in like 50 years and be able to play a couple of the songs or all of the songs and be like, wow, I’m really proud of 31-year-old Troye for doing that.”

Watch the full interview below.