“Rags to Riches” is a 1953 popular song by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross The music is based on a Spanish or a Latin American melody. The best-known version of the song was recorded by Tony Bennett with Percy Faith and his orchestra, and was number one for eight weeks on the Billboard chart in 1953 The song was also the title of a type of fiction, or to the actual stories of people who have risen from poverty to wealth