If you’re a fan, I’m sorry. But, Barry White is one of the poster boys for Poptastic Day. However, as we have said in the past poptastic doesn’t equate to crap. In fact, quite often, it’s just the opposite. Yes, it may, just as often, be corny or cheesy as hell. That just makes it better.

“You’re The First, The Last, My Everything” may be best known to Generation X as the Biscuit’s theme in Ally McBeal. When I hear it I see that goofball pumping himself up with confidence in the unisex bathroom mirror. Which is why the song is so effective – only a poptastic song would do. And it did. It’s forever burned into my brain because of those scenes.

What is poptastic to one is frequently a hit to many others. “You’re The First, The Last, My Everything” was on Can’t Get Enough (1974), an album that featured a #1 (”Can’t Get Enough”), a #2 (the subject of today’s Poptastic Day) and was selected as #281 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. ALL TIME.

Now, that is The Power of the Poptastic.

   Barry White – You’re The First, The Last, My Everything

Postscript – The photo accompanying this post was specifically selected because I couldn’t help wondering who the Special Agent was in the background. Does he not look out of place? I imagine him wondering “How did I end up here?” Perhaps what he’s really thinking is … “That Barry White is one cool cat. I wish I could be more like him.”