This is the first Tubes song I ever heard
That is not the lead singer
ABBA - Björn sings lead on Does Your Mother Know?
I like it but I’m an ABBA fan in general. It’s not one of their best songs, though.
Does Robert Plant count?
Thanks for the info, WordMan, I didn’t know Orr sang that much lead. I also didn’t know he died in 2000. Dammit!
Somebody upthread already mentioned Queen’s Roger Taylor singing I’m In Love With My Car. I do love that song.
Dammit! You just ruined Kiss for me. Cookie Monster indeed.
(That’s not to say that Kiss hadn’t already ruined themselves 30-odd years ago. Taking off the makeup wasa REAL bad idea.. Check out Cookie Monster trying to look menacing in a pink tank top. )
“Cookie Monster” is a pretty common derogatory term for certain styles of Heavy Metal singing.
And you got me right back by reminding me of that video. It still makes me cringe (AND the song is now stuck in my head. Darn you to heck, Green Bean 
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Heaven Beside You is sung mainly by Jerry Cantrell for the band Alice in Chains. Layne Staley does sing during the chorus, but he is the back up on this one to Cantrell’s lead.
Jerry sing’s even more now that they replaced deceased Staley, but Layne was clearly the lead singer in the band.
It’s a great song, too. One of Alice in Chains best, although I’m a huge fan who enjoys a lot of their music. Jerry wrote most of their songs and sang a lot, but this one is probably the most prominent.
Oh yes, I remember that, too !
It was a huge deal at the time - their taking off their make-up, I mean. Not the song, which flopped IIRC.
Is it just me, or is the image that your link freezes on make Vinnie Vincent (far right) look like Michelle Trachtenberg? 
There’s only one time that I recall that Ian Anderson wasn’t the lead in a Jethro Tull song. This was in their concept album Passion Play. Bass player Jeffrey Hammond narrated The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles in the middle of the album.
Not sure if this counts, but some of the best songs by Journey are sung by Greg Rolie, particularly “Feeling That Way”, “Anytime” and “Just The Same Way”.
Of course, he sang lead before Steve Perry joined, so this might be more of a borderline example.
Not because he was taking a break, but because of internal pressures within the band, John Fogerty let some of the other members take the lead on the “Mardi Gras” album. It was so ill-received that it probably led to the breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Okay, I don’t want to hijack this and turn it into the KISS and the HORRIBLE ,AWFUL VIDEO but I cannot stop watching it. Watching and laughing. Gene and the aforementioned pink tank top! Paul’s testicle tether! The, uh, other one with his belly shirt. Paul kind of looks like a slightly more demented Dr. FrankNFurter if he was trying to look like a 1980s rock star.
Sorry; please carry on with the topic at hand. . .
Jeffrey also did “Sea Lion II,” but both of these are spoken-word, not singing. On Tull’s first album, however, Mick Abrahams sings the lead vocal on “Move on Alone.” (A couple of other tracks have Ian and Mick singing together.)
Concrete Blonde’s guitar player, Jim Mankey, sang one song, “Close to Home,” on (what was then intended to be) their swan song album Mexican Moon. It does not fall into the “better” category.
Timothy B. Schmidt, brought in as a hired gun just a few years prior, wrote and sang lead on the Eagles’ biggest hit, “I Can’t Tell You Why.”
That’s Nick Mason er … vocalizing on Pink Floyd’s “One of These Days.”
A personal favorite: one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs, “After Hours,” is sung by drummer Maureen Tucker.
And one more vote for “You Got the Silver.” Awesome performance.
the Eagles’ biggest hit, “I Can’t Tell You Why.”??
Why have I never heard it? So Hotel California was a dud?
I think it was one of the bigger hits in their post HC incarnation. Remember the *Long Run *era?
I like C.J. doing the Dee Dee songs, and others, in end-period Ramones.
Ronnie Wood is the lead singer on “Ooh-La-La” by the Faces, and nobody was more surprised about it then he was.