Thank You for Being a Friend

This breezy song embodied the Southern California sound of the late '70s - Gold said he was in his "Brian Wilson phase" when he wrote it. The song finds Gold showing gratitude to a true friend, assuring this person that he will be there until the end.

Seven years after this song was a hit for singer/songwriter Andrew Gold, it became the theme from the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls, which ran from 1985-1992. A jingle singer named Cynthia Fee sang the TV version. With lyrics about a friendship that endures into old age, the song is remarkably appropriate for the show: And when we both get older With walking canes and hair of gray Have no fear, even though it's hard to hear I will stand real close and say, "Thank you for being a friend"

Gold wrote that this song was "sort of dedicated" to his musical partner Brock Walsh and his manager Norman Epstein.