Johnny Daye (John Patrick DiBucci, March 17, 1948 - May 6, 2017) was an American soul music singer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who released six singles between 1965 and 1968. In 2007 he came out of retirement to sing on two tracks on Robert Peckman's first solo CD, Stirrin’ Up Bees. Daye was taken to Stax Records after being discovered in Pittsburgh by Otis Redding. He recorded the single "What'll I Do for Satisfaction", which was produced and co-written by Steve Cropper. The song was recorded by Janet Jackson on her 1993 album, Janet, as "What'll I Do". His other single for Stax was "Stay Baby Stay". Cropper stated in the liner notes to The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959–1968 that "Otis really wanted to do a lot with him. The kid was dynamite. Had Otis lived, he probably would have." Born John Patrick DiBucci, he grew up in Homewood-Brushton, where in eighth grade he hooked up with a street-corner doo-wop group called The Itals, aka The Five Italians. His local idol was Jimmy Beaumont of The Skyliners, who broke out of Pittsburgh in 1959 with “Since I Don’t Have You.” “I met Johnny when we were both in ninth grade,” says Frank Czuri, who went to sing for the Igniters, Diamond Reo, The Silencers and Skyliners. “We played a summer festival together at St Bart's [in Penn Hills]. The Itals were great, managed by Ike from G.C. Murphy’s. In 1966 the Igniters did several shows with him as Daye. Foreshadowing Michael Jackson, Johnny did it all: sang his ass off, danced great a