Today (August 13) is Left Hander’s Day. I am a left-hander myself, and so is my dad. I am giving you my favorite songs by left-handed musicians in various musical genres. Some of these songs may be technically a song by their band (if they’re not a soloist), but I will put their band name in parentheses. By the way…it may seem like I’m only listing off their most famous song in some cases. These choices happen to be my actual favorite songs by these musicians. If they happen to be their biggest song…so be it!
Country/Bluegrass
Glen Campbell – “Southern Nights”
Brothers Don & Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers) – “Wake Up Little Susie”
Martina McBride – “Independence Day”
Billy Ray Cyrus – “Achy Breaky Heart”
Crystal Gayle – “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
Béla Fleck (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones) – “Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo”
Rap/Hip-Hop
Eminem – “My Name Is”
50 Cent – “In Da Club”
Iggy Azalea – “Fancy” (with Charli XCX)
Rock
Phil Collins (Genesis) – “Land of Confusion” (as Genesis); “I Wish It Would Rain Down” (solo)
Glenn Frey (The Eagles) – “Heartache Tonight” (as The Eagles); “The Heat is On” (solo)
Paul McCartney (The Beatles; Wings) “Helter Skelter” (The Beatles); “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (solo)
Dick Dale – “Miserlou”
Ringo Starr (The Beatles) – “Yellow Submarine” (as The Beatles); “No No Song” (solo)
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel) – “Cecilia” (as Simon & Garfunkel); “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” (solo)
Joe Cocker – “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window”
Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) – “Sultans of Swing”
Janice and Floyd Pepper (Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem) – “The Muppet Show Theme”
Mike Porcaro (Toto) – “Hold the Line”
Alternative
David Byrne (Talking Heads) – “Psycho Killer”
Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) – “Stand”
Perry Bamonte (The Cure) – “Why Can’t I Be You?”
Dominic Howard (Muse) – “Uprising”
John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants) – “Birdhouse in Your Soul”
David Bowie – “I’m Afraid of Americans”
Elvis Costello – “Veronica”
Hard Rock/Metal
Jimi Hendrix – “Are You Experienced?”
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) – “Children of the Grave”
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin) – “Immigrant Song” (as Led Zeppelin); “Tall Cool One” (solo)
Joe Perry (Aerosmith) – “Back in the Saddle”
Paul Gray (Slipknot) – “Wait and Bleed”
Chris Adler (Lamb of God) – “Redneck”
Gary Moore – “Over the Hills and Far Away”
Ian Paice (Deep Purple) – “Perfect Strangers”
Zacky Vengeance (Avenged Sevenfold) – “Nightmare”
Grunge
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) – “Scentless Apprentice”
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) – “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”
Punk
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols; Public Image Ltd.) – “God Save the Queen” (as Sex Pistols); “Rise” (as Public Image Ltd.)
Iggy Pop – “Lust for Life”
Henry Rollins (Black Flag; The Rollins Band) – “Louie Louie” (as Black Flag); “Liar” (as The Rollins Band)
Travis Barker (Blink-182) – “What’s My Age Again?”
Joey Ramone (The Ramones) – “I Wanna Be Sedated”
Funk
Isaac Hayes – “Theme from Shaft”
Pop
George Michael (Wham!) – “Careless Whisper” (as Wham!); “Kissing a Fool” (solo)
Seal – “Crazy”
Lady Gaga – “The Edge of Glory”
Ricky Martin – “Livin’ La Vida Loca”
Justin Bieber – “Never say Never” (with Jaden Smith)
Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) – “Missionary Man” (as Eurythmics); “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” (solo with Al Green)
Pink – “So What”
Gerald Casale (Devo) – “Jocko Homo”
Brothers Robin & Duncan Campbell (UB40) – “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
Melissa Manchester – “You Should Hear How She Talks About You”
Katharine McPhee – “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
Ellie Goulding – “Love Me like You Do”
Niall Horan (One Direction) – “What Makes You Beautiful”
Adam Levine (Maroon 5) – “Harder to Breathe”
Zac Hanson (Hanson) – “MMMBop”
R&B
Natalie Cole – “Pink Cadillac”
Lou Rawls – “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”
Jazz
Judy Garland – “Over the Rainbow”
Chuck Mangione – Feels So Good”
Cole Porter – “I Get a Kick Out of You”
Rudy Vallée – “As Time Goes By”
Wynton Marsalis – “Soon All Will Know”
Blues
Albert King – “Born Under a Bad Sign”
Novelty
Tiny Tim – “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”
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