Half the pop singing and songwriting duo Hall and Oates and a member of the Class of 1966, Oates says he is "living proof that you can go to North Penn High School and go somewhere after that."
He entertained an assembly of about 1,000 Monday at the school in Lansdale, 20 miles north of Philadelphia.
Oates says he grew up there so long ago he remembers when jeans weren't allowed in school and "when the first McDonald's came."
The crowd shouted for "Rich Girl" and waved lighted cell phones as Oates sang that and other favorites from "She's Gone" to "Sara Smile."
