Song
- Originals
- Highlights 4
- Versions 21
- Adaptations 2
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Versions
Thank You for Being a Friend | Andrew Gold | 1978 | First release | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Gracie Rivera | 1978 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Valerie DeLaCruz | 1998 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Scooch | April 24, 2000 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Animated Coochie Wonders | March 7, 2006 | Unverified | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Starlite Singers | 2007 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Bliss [CH] | January 28, 2008 | A cappella | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Brynn Marie | 2008 | Unverified | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Russell Crawford | 2009 | Unverified | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Elaine Paige with Dionne Warwick | November 1, 2010 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Brandon Schott | April 29, 2013 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Angela Galuppo | July 2013 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Agony Aunts | December 30, 2014 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Suburban Legends | June 2, 2015 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Alyssa Bonagura | 2015 | Unverified | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | The Overtones [GB] | July 28, 2017 | |||
Golden Girls Theme Song (Thank You for Being a Friend) | Bobby Bones And The Raging Idiots | 2017 | Unverified | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Caleb Grimm | April 24, 2020 | Acoustic | ||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Andrew Gold - Crystal Knives - Sarah de Warren | May 22, 2020 | |||
Thank You for Being a Friend | Beverley Craven - Julia Fordham - Judie Tzuke - Rumer | November 21, 2021 |
One of my favorite parts about being a Golden Girlsfan is that I get the opportunity to belt out the words to the theme song "Thank You for Being a Friend" at the top of your lungs at beginning of every episode. Even though I've likely heard it more than a million times, it still pulls at your heart strings every single time.
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Originally written by Andrew Gold, the version featured on the beloved NBC sitcom is a cover recorded by
Cynthia Fee. And I wouldn't blame you if you already started humming it in your head: "Thank you for being a friend / Traveled down a road and back again / Your heart is true / You're a pal and a confidant."
If you're as much as a Golden Girls enthusiast as me, you'll want to purchase the brand-new illustrated book immortalizing the theme song from Julie Houts, who Vogue called "Instagram's favorite illustrator." It belongs on your coffee table, and it obviously
belongs on your bestie's coffee table, too.
The grown-up picture book pairs the lyrics of "Thank You for Being a Friend" — written by hand — with stylized illustrations of the four women who have stolen our hearts. We know them as Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia.
I've already ordered two copies of Golden Girls: Thank You For Being A Friend. While you order yours, I'm going to go grab a piece of cheesecake as I finish singing our favorite song: "And if you threw a party / Invited everyone you knew / Well, you would see the biggest gift would be from me / And the card attached would say, 'Thank you for being a friend.'"
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