The song was included in the Wearside Jack tape by someone purporting to be the Yorkshire Ripper covered by ska-pop band Suburban Legends on their 2015 album Forever in the FriendZone, and re-imagined by Virginia punk-rockers The Blanche Devereauxs on their 2009 LP Midnight Cheesecake Banter. Other notables who covered the song include ex-Beatle Ringo Starr whose unreleased recording of the composition was produced by longtime Andrew Gold confederate Peter Asher, and actress/chanteuse Bernadette Peters who used it to open her 1979 live video release Bernadette Peters In Concert. Elaine Paige and Dionne Warwick released a recording of the song on Paige's duet album Elaine Paige and Friends in 2010. The song was later re-recorded by Cynthia Fee to serve as the theme song for the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls, and recorded again for the series' CBS spin-off The Golden Palace.Īdditionally, the song was featured as a dedication to the host on Casey Kasem's final American Top 20/10, broadcast on the Fourth of July weekend in 2009 at the end of two World Series games (Game 5 in 1988 and Game 4 in 1990) in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode 'Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down' at the end of Super Bowl XL in the episode of The Simpsons titled ' Double, Double, Boy in Trouble' on episodes of the TV shows Dancing with the Stars, Family Guy, New Girl, Looking, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Goldbergs, Arrested Development, Atlanta, and the TV special Trolls Holiday, as well as on a May 2010 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Golden Girls star Betty White, in which past and present cast members sang the song followed by a death metal version of the song performed by White herself while wearing a ski mask.

Andrew Gold – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic piano, synthesizers, percussion.

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

The song reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.

It appears on Gold's third album All This and Heaven Too. ' Thank You for Being a Friend' is a song recorded by American singer Andrew Gold. 'Thank You For Being A Friend' on YouTube

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