Song · Hall and Oates
“Rich Girl” by Hall and Oates
From the album Bigger Than Both of Us (1976)
“Rich Girl” by Hall and Oates appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2016 and 2022. It was first released in 1976 on the album Bigger Than Both of Us. Its best result is #477 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,229 indie & aaa song of all time and #476 of the '70s.
"Rich Girl" first surfaced on Daryl Hall and John Oates's 1976 album Bigger Than Both of Us, and by March 1977 it had climbed all the way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, the first time the duo got there and not the last. Hall wrote it alone, words and music, and it's a sweet, easy-rolling put-down of a spoiled kid who can always lean on the family money.
The gossip said it was about Patty Hearst, the scandal-magnet newspaper heiress. Wrong. The real model was a guy: Victor Walker, a college ex of Hall's girlfriend Sara Allen and the heir to a restaurant-chain fortune, who'd shown up at their apartment acting strange. Hall switched the gender because, as he told Rolling Stone, you just can't sing about a rich boy. Billboard ranked it 23rd among the year's biggest hits.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 485 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) | 500 |
| 2020 | 1337 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 477 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
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