Dan Penn, for example, wrote two songs associated with black soul performers: "Do Right Woman-Do Right Man" (for Aretha Franklin) and "The Dark End of the Street" (recorded by James Carr). Many blue-eyed soul performers are British, and several of these artists have actually been mistaken for being black.

Ironically, the "blue-eyed" artists who have had the longest careers in this genre have done so by building a significant black following, as exemplified by the success of Hall & Oates, George Michael and Teena Marie on the R&B charts in the 1980s.

Blue-eyed soul artists:

• Rick Astley
• Bee Gees
• Michael Bolton
• The Box Tops
• Boy George
• Joe Cocker
• Culture Club
• Taylor Dayne
• The Doobie Brothers
• Eurythmics
• Fine Young Cannibals
• The Foundations
• Hall & Oates
• Eddie Hinton
• Tom Jones
• Annie Lennox
• Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
• Teena Marie
• Michael McDonald
• George Michael
• Van Morrison
• Shaun Murphy
• Laura Nyro
• Roy Orbison
• Robert Palmer
• Dan Penn
• Elvis Presley
• Rare Earth
• The Rascals
• The Righteous Brothers
• Mitch Ryder
• Boz Scaggs
• Simply Red
• Spandau Ballet
• Dusty Springfield
• Lisa Stansfield
• Joss Stone
• Tony Joe White
• Steve Winwood
• Paul Young
• Young Rascals