“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. On the Cash Box chart, “Thank You for Being a Friend” spent two weeks at number 11. A cover by Cynthia Fee was the theme song for the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. According to Gold, “Thank You for Being a Friend” was “just this little throwaway thing” that took him “about an hour to write”.
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
