Thank You for Being a Friend

"Thank You for Being a Friend"
Side label of U.S. 7-inch vinyl single
Single by Andrew Gold
from the album All This and Heaven Too
B-side"Still You Linger On"
ReleasedFebruary 1978
Genre
Length3:58 (Single Edit)
4:41 (Album Version)
LabelAsylum
Songwriter(s)Andrew Gold
Producer(s)
  • Andrew Gold
  • Brock Walsh
Andrew Gold singles chronology
"I'm On My Way"
(1978)
"Thank You for Being a Friend"
(1978)
"Never Let Her Slip Away"
(1978)
Music video
"Thank You For Being A Friend" on YouTube

"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a song recorded by American singer Andrew Gold. It appears on Gold's third album All This and Heaven Too. The song reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.[3] On the Cash Box chart, "Thank You for Being a Friend" spent two weeks at number 11.[4] A cover by Cynthia Fee was the theme song for the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls.

  1. ^ Snyder, Michael (September 30, 2019). "Spooky, scary, and silly tunes". Marina Times. Retrieved May 28, 2023. The album has all the charm and good humor one might expect from the pop-rock purveyor of the perennial "Thank You for Being a Friend".
  2. ^ "Explore: Soft Rock | Top Songs | AllMusic". AllMusic. 2011-12-14. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 258.
  4. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, April 29, 1978". Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2017.