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“Right Hand Man” by Joan Osborne

From the album Relish (1995)

“Right Hand Man” by Joan Osborne appears on 18 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1999 and 2024. It was first released in 1995 on the album Relish. Its best result is #546 on the WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,000 alternative song of all time.

18countdowns

3stations

#546best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1999–2024years charted

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"Right Hand Man" comes from Relish, Joan Osborne's 1995 album, and its writing credit is a crowded room: Osborne with Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and producer Rick Chertoff, plus a share for Don van Vliet. Three of those writers play on it, too. Bazilian handles guitar and saxophone, Hyman sits at the piano, Mark Egan holds down the bass and Andy Kravitz the drums, while Kravitz, Chertoff and Osborne herself all pile on percussion. William Wittman recorded and mixed it.

What comes out is a loose, rattling groove with Osborne's big, bluesy voice strutting all over it, a bar band that knows exactly how sloppy to sound.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

#2,000 of all time

Indie & Adult Alternative

#3,170 of all time

All Rock Formats

#3,114 of all time

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	1300	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	1300	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	1307	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	1306	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2003	1291	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2004	1291	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	1291	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2007	1346	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2007	742	WTMD	WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time	897
2008	1344	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	1364	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1396	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1459	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1518	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	1574	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2019	959	WYEP	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019	1017
2019	959	WYEP	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019	1099
2024	546	WYEP	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years	1049

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