Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

He appeared as himself in a couple episodes of The Simpsons and most importantly the episode "Whacking Day" in which Bart and Lisa used his famously deep bass singing voice played through loudspeakers placed on the ground to lull and attract snakes. 1996 also saw the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack on which White had a duet with Chris Rock called "Basketball Jones" a remake of Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jones" from 1974. The final blow came in the fall of 2002 when years of living with the afore-mentioned high blood pressure in addition to diabetes caught up with him and he was hospitalised with kidney failure.

" Along with Isaac Hayes White is considered by Allmusic. Barry White born Barry Eugene Carter ((1944-09-12)September 12 1944 – July 4 2003(2003-07-04)) was an American composer and singer-songwriter. During the course of his career in the music business White achieved 106 gold albums worldwide 41 of which also attained platinum status.