Rich Girl

Daryl Hall & John Oates · 1977

Signature

F major · 7B 165.6 BPM 2:23 Constant · peaks 0:59 Energy 4 of 5 Bright

key confidence high · relative D minor · tempo confidence medium · half-time 82.8 · low end 25% · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13 · how accurate

Character

Not tagged yet. The words are proposed and waiting for a person.

Good for

Nothing yet. The rules need the character words above before they can say.

Lineage

CoveredAnakelly source
Written byDaryl Hall source
CoveredElliot Lurie source
CoveredEverclear source
CoveredHall & Oates source
CoveredHall& Oates source
CoveredMe First and the Gimme Gimmes source
CoveredMick Rogers source
CoveredNina Simone source
CoveredSarah Marston source
CoveredThe Bird and the Bee source
CoveredTim Timebomb source
Covered堀込泰行 source

Why it is here

This was Hall & Oates' first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. source
The song was inspired by a real spoiled restaurant-chain heir, an ex-boyfriend of Daryl Hall's girlfriend Sara Allen, whom Hall changed from 'rich boy' to 'Rich Girl' for the lyric. source
Cash Box praised it on release as 'an upbeat, foot-tapping number with a lyric line that really catches on.' source

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