A witty blue-eyed soul classic, the track became the duo’s first No. 1 hit and transformed Daryl Hall and John Oates into bona fide pop stars.
Released in the U.K. in the summer of 1976, “Rich Girl” is the second track from Hall & Oates’ fifth studio album, Bigger Than Both of Us. It wasn’t issued as a U.S. single until early 1977, but once it was, it quickly climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The song spent three weeks at No. 1, ending its reign on March 26, 1977.
“It’s one of the most economical pop songs ever written: two A sections, two B sections (the second extended), a fade-out vocal vamp. In and out. Wham, bam, boom,” the outlet wrote. “Perhaps that's why it’s easy to savor ‘Rich Girl’ 12 times in a row during your morning commute, why hearing it once on the radio is almost maddening.”
“Sara’s college boyfriend was the heir to a fast-food fortune,” Hall said, per the outlet. “He was an acid casualty. He came over one time, and he was banging off the walls, basically. After he left, I sat down and went, ‘He’s a rich guy, and he’s gone too far.’ And I wrote it about him. And then I said, ‘Rich guy’ doesn’t sound right.”
And so, “Rich Girl” was born from a real-life encounter turned into a hit.
“Rich Girl” was the first of six No. 1s for the duo. Their second came four years later with “Kiss on My List” (1981), followed by “Private Eyes” (1981), “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” (1982), “Maneater” (1984), and “Out of Touch” (1984).
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