“Thank You for Being a Friend”  is a song written by Andrew Gold, who recorded it for his third album, All This and Heaven Too.  The song reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.  In Canada, the song peaked at number seven.  The song was famously 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.  (More from Wikipedia)