"Southpaw" is Pink Lady

Pink Lady (band)

is a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto and Keiko Masuda...

's seventh single release, released on March 25, 1978. This became their sixth number-one hit on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 Chart in Japan. The single sold 1,800,000 copies, and spent nine weeks at number one on the chart.

According to Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 this was the 2nd best selling single from 1978.

Track listing (7" vinyl)

All tracks composed by Shunichi Tokura, lyrics written by Yū Aku

Yu Aku

, , was a Japanese lyricist, poet, novelist.He was famous for thousands of his lyrics he contributed to many recording artists since 1967. Mainly during the 1970s, more than 20 of them reached the number-one on the Japanese Oricon chart, and 7 singles sold more than a million copies...

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1. "Southpaw" 3:40
2. "Accessary" 2:40

Chart positions

Charts (1978)	Peak position
Japanese Oricon Singles Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...	1

Cover versions

• The song has been covered by former idol group W (Double You)
  W (Double You)
  , also written as Double You or Double U, was a Japanese pop duo associated with Hello! Project. Nozomi Tsuji and Ai Kago, former fourth generation members of Morning Musume, were in the group.- 2004 :...
  
   for their first album Duo U&U
  Duo U&U
  is the first album by W, the duo formed by Morning Musume and Minimoni members and longtime friends Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji. Recorded while they were winding down their duties as Morning Musume and Minimoni members, the album consists of cover versions of songs released by other female Japanese...
  
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• Girl group SPEED recorded a cover of this song in 1997.
• Checkicco
  Checkicco
  was an idol group formed by Yasushi Akimoto, who was also the producer of the group , along with Masahiro Mizuguchi, a producer for Fuji TV who had the idea of creating "an Onyanko Club for the Heisei era ". They debuted in 1998 with the single "Dakishimete"...
  
  released a cover of this on the Pink Lady/Yū Aku tribute album Bad Friends.