"
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. It also spent two weeks at number 11 on the U.S.
Cash Box Top 100, ranking it as the 98th biggest hit of 1978. In Canada, the song peaked at number seven.