My Ten Favorite Girl Songs: Rich Girl (#10)

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When I began perusing myLot tonight the first thing I saw was a "favorite girls songs" countdown that Scott (@teamfreak16 ) started. Immediately half a dozen songs popped into my head, so I said, "Hmm, think I'd better join that party!" So, with all apologies to Scott (and the fear that we might actually match a song -- finally), here's my first song in the countdown of my favorite "girl" songs. #10: Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates Hall and Oates came into their own in the 80s, but this 1977 single was their first #1 hit. (And, in my blabbermouth opinion, it was their best #1 song....of their other chart-toppers, only "Maneater" was a decent song.) I'm not a big Hall & Oates fan, even though I did go to see them when I was home on leave in 1983 (and dang that was a LOUD concert!!! Even with earplugs my ears and head were still hurting!!). I have a few songs of theirs that I really love (like "Bigger Than Both of Us," which was on the album Beauty on a Back Street and not the Bigger Than Both of Us album...go figure). And this is one of those songs. I had the 45 when it came out. My mom even liked this song!!! Maybe it's because it wasn't pop (it knocked that lame "Love Theme From A Star Is Bored...er....Born out of the #1 position) and it wasn't disco (yowza, yowza, yowza!). The trivia, of course, is that it wasn't originally about a rich girl. If you remember their first major hit, "Sara Smile" (another one of those songs of theirs I didn't like), that was about Daryl Hall's girlfriend, Sara Allen. Well, "Rich Girl" was originally "Rich Boy," about one of her ex-boyfriends, who was the son of a rich businessman. Girl or boy, the song's line about the wealthy being able to rely on money and how "it's so easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain" rings true everywhere. Rich Girl Written by Daryl Hall Recorded by Daryl Hall & John Oates From Bigger Than Both of Us, 1976 High and dry out of the rain: