Thank You for Being a Friend

Andrew Gold song and The Golden Girls theme song
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q12005693
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Thank You for Being a Friend

Summary

Thank You for Being a Friend is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (690 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Thank You for Being a Friend's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend's instance of is recorded as song[4].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend's genre is pop rock[5].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend was followed by Never Let Her Slip Away[6].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend was performed by Andrew Gold[7].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend's record label is recorded as Asylum Records[8].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend is part of All This and Heaven Too[9].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend was published on February 1978[10].
  • Thank You for Being a Friend's form of creative work is recorded as song[11].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[12]

  • Community tags: tv theme[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 43249b50-68dd-3d62-9afe-896477fad099[14]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Thank You for Being a Friend was performed by Andrew Gold[7].

Publication

Thank You for Being a Friend was published on February 1978[10]. Its genre is pop rock[5]. It is part of All This and Heaven Too[9].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Thank You for Being a Friend was followed by Never Let Her Slip Away[6].

Why It Matters

Thank You for Being a Friend ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (690 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [12] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Thank You for Being a Friend. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/thank-you-for-being-a-friend
MLA “Thank You for Being a Friend.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/thank-you-for-being-a-friend.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_thank-you-for-being-a-friend_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Thank You for Being a Friend}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/thank-you-for-being-a-friend}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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