Johnny Daye may have been the best blue-eyed soul singer of the '60s. He had an electrifying stage act that wasn't fake or contrived. Daye would slide, dip, and bop on stage like a fair-complected James Brown. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Daye's recording career was brief. Johnny Nash signed him to Jomada Records where he waxed Marry Me/Give Me Back My Ring in 1965; he cut A Lot of Progress/You're on Top for Parkway-Cameo Records in 1966, and had a release on Blue Star Records titled I'll Keep on Loving You. The late Otis Redding brought Daye to Stax Records, where he cut two singles produced by Booker T the MG's guitarist Steve Cropper. The first single, What I'll Do for Satisfaction/I Need Somebody, like other Daye releases, failed to chart.

Janet Jackson cut a version of What I'll Do for Satisfaction on her mega 27-track Janet CD in 1993. The second, Stay Baby Stay, is an aching, deep-fried soul ballad that Stax neglected. Mysteriously, the Stax sides are Daye's last known recordings -- he never cut an LP, and seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth. ~ Andrew Hamilton, Rovi