- Morgan performed for French President Charles de Gaulle, and for five U.S. Presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.
- She toured with Jack Benny and John Raitt, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry. Two of her RCA singles hit the Billboard country charts in 1970.
- Grew up with George Bush on Kennebunkport, Maine.
- Known as Jane Weintraub, she divides her time between Malibu, California, Palm Springs, California and Kennebunkport, Maine. Morgan has owned Blueberry Hill Farm in Kennebunkport, Maine since 1958.
- She was featured on the November 10, 1959 jazz special Timex-All-Star Jazz III alongside Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Anita O'Day, Gene Krupa, Bob Crosby's Wildcats, Les Brown and his orchestra, and Chico Hamilton and his orchestra.
- She retired from performing in 1973, but has appeared occasionally over the years at special events and benefits. She has in recent years worked as a production assistant to her husband on films including the remake Ocean's Eleven (2001).
- While she was still in Juilliard (1944), orchestra leader Art Mooney heard her perform and hired her. Mooney changed her name to Jane Morgan by taking the first name of one of his vocalists, Janie Ford, and the last name of another, Marian Morgan.
- Weintraub is her married name. Under her performing name, Jane Morgan, she made dozens of appearances as a singer on many variety shows on television, especially in the 1960s. She is often confused with another Jane Morgan, an actress who appeared on the situation comedy Our Miss Brooks (1952).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6914 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 6, 2011.
- Kapp asked Morgan to join The Troubadors and sing "Fascination". Although written in 1904 by F.D. Marchetti as "Valse Tzigane", the song was modified in Paris at the Folies Bergère as a "strip" number. With English lyrics added by Dick Manning in 1932, it had been played throughout the 1957 movie (the French lyric had been created in 1942). Morgan's recording was released in late 1957 and remained on the charts for 29 weeks.
- On December 10, 2009, Morgan performed at the UNICEF Ball honoring her husband, Jerry Weintraub, held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, singing "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Big Spender".
- Daughter of Bertram Currier (a relative of Nathaniel Currier, the 19th century lithographer) and Olga Brandenberg Currier, both of whom were dedicated and accomplished musicians. Her father played the cello and other stringed instruments with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for many years and her mother majored in piano and graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music. Both were composers and music teachers and operated a family music school in Newton. Jane was taught to sing, play the piano, dance and act, but she abandoned the violin lessons.
- Morgan sang popular songs in nightclubs, private parties, bar mitzvahs, and small restaurants to earn spending money to help pay for her tuition expenses at Juilliard. Eventually she was hired as a singer at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan with the house second band for $25 a week, six nights a week.
- In 1948, she was selected by French impresario Bernard Hilda to accompany him to Paris.
- Many French songwriters, including Charles Trenet, frequented the club, and they wrote several songs that became hit recordings for Morgan.
- Jane Morgan and Bernard Hilda opened a new weekly hour-long television show, and she began recording in 1949 on the French Polydor label as well as Parlophone, Philips, and others.
- She was noticed by Dave Kapp, who founded a new recording label, Kapp Records. Kapp signed Morgan to a recording contract, and near that same period he also signed pianist Roger Williams.
- Morgan began from 1948 to appear regularly at the Club des Champs-Elysées, performing (two shows per night) American songs to mostly French audiences. Her mother had taught her French and Italian, so she quickly became proficient in French, and performed her act in flawless French, singing the classic songs of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, French songs, and standards of the century. Morgan became a sensation in Paris, and accompanied by Hilda and his gypsy violin, quickly became known throughout France.
- In 1952, Morgan went to Montreal, Canada, and opened at the Ritz Hotel as a soloist with a bilingual act using French and English. She returned to New York with regular performances in upscale nightclubs and her own radio show on NBC, backed by the 50-piece NBC Symphony Orchestra. She also performed at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. She returned to Europe in 1954 to appear in a London West End review with comedian Vic Oliver, and later at the Savoy Theatre and London Palladium. During this period, she married Larry Stith.
- In 1958, Kapp released "The Day the Rains Came" (a French song by Gilbert Becaud called "Le jour où la pluie viendra") with Morgan singing in English on one side and in French on the other. The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in January 1959.
- After graduating from Seabreeze High School, Morgan's multiple musical skills and overall background enabled her prompt acceptance into New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music where she studied, intending to become an opera singer. She studied opera by day and performed whenever possible.
- When she was 4 years old, Jane and her family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida. The following year she began receiving vocal lessons, while continuing her study of the piano. During the summers, she took on child roles and appeared in theater productions at the Kennebunkport Playhouse in Kennebunkport, Maine, which her brother had founded.
- While attending grade school, she actively engaged in singing and competing against other students throughout Florida and the Southeast. Upon graduating from Daytona Beach High School, her multiple musical skills and overall background enabled her prompt acceptance into the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City where her vocal teacher was 'Belle Julie Soudant' and she intended to become an opera singer. She studied opera by day and performing in nightclubs and at parties.
- To counter her reputation as a French singer, Kapp had Morgan record "Baseball, Baseball", and her first album release was entitled "The American Girl from Paris". She recorded several additional albums and soon was paired with Williams, who had gained national acceptance with his recording of "Autumn Leaves".
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