In February 2024, Morgan announced his retirement after his final performance of the Farewell to Australia tour on 21 April 2024, at age 91.

[5] After his grandfather died in 1947, with his grandmother, he moved back to Scrubby Creek to live with his mother and siblings.

He was discovered through Australia's Amateur Hour, a radio talent contest, where he sang his original song "The Sheik of Scrubby Creek" and became a national finalist.

[8] He signed with Regal Zonophone Records (a subsidiary of EMI), which issued his debut single, "The Sheik of Scrubby Creek", in December.

[9] He also undertook national service with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at Amberley Base.

[13] For the latter film he depicted Bayonet with "the full force of his unusual personality... [and] the lustre of his success in the entertainment world.

He had platinum and gold album sales, and is one of Australia's most popular country music artists.

It was released the same year as Sheilas, Drongos, Dills & Other Geezers, which contained 20 of Morgan's hits from the 1950s and 1960s.

In 2009 he wrote a song about his Aboriginal heritage, dedicated to his grandparents who raised him as a child, "The Ballad of Bill and Eva".

[16] Artists who have impersonated Morgan in their shows include Col Elliott and John Williamson.

[19] Morgan's biographical documentary film I'm Not Dead Yet was directed by Janine Hosking and released in 2011.

[20] Australian writer Anna Rose published his biography Chad Morgan − Seventy Years in the Making in 2022.

It was inaugurated in 1976 and the inductee is announced at the Country Music Awards of Australia in Tamworth each January.