Thank You for Being a Friend (album)

Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold

Compilation album by Andrew Gold
Released	June 24, 1997
Recorded	1975-96
Genre	Pop, pop rock
Length	77:27
Label	Rhino
Producer	Andrew Gold, Peter Asher, Chuck Plotkin, Brock Walsh, Don Was, Graham Gouldman

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]

Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold is a compilaton album by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Andrew Gold. It was released in 1997 by Rhino Records. It consists of seventeen songs from Gold's four Asylum Records albums, including hits "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being a Friend", and three previously unreleased tracks, including "The Final Frontier", the theme from the NBC series Mad About You.

Track listing

All songs written by Andrew Gold, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Final Frontier" (Paul Reiser, Don Was)	1:35
2.	"Thank You for Being a Friend"	4:42
3.	"Lonely Boy"	4:23
4.	"Oh Urania (Take Me Away)"	4:21
5.	"Never Let Her Slip Away"	3:27
6.	"How Can This Be Love?" (Gold, Mark Goldenberg)	3:57
7.	"You're Free"	4:08
8.	"Hope You Feel Good" (Gold, Steve Ferguson)	4:46
9.	"One of Them Is Me"	3:58
10.	"Kiss This One Goodbye"	4:04
11.	"Go Back Home Again"	3:12
12.	"Looking for My Love"	3:37
13.	"Endless Flight"	4:58
14.	"That's Why I Love You" (Gold, Gene Garfin)	3:10
15.	"Heartaches in Heartaches"	3:13
16.	"Firefly"	3:22
17.	"Passing Thing"	4:10
18.	"Still You Linger On"	3:20
19.	"Can Anybody See You" (Gold, Graham Gouldman)	4:12
20.	"The King of Showbiz" (Gold, Gouldman)	4:52

References

↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold at AllMusic. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
↑ Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music, Concise 3rd Edition, p. 538. Virgin Books, London. ISBN 1-85227-832-3

Andrew Gold

Studio albums

Andrew Gold (1975)
What's Wrong with This Picture? (1976)
All This and Heaven Too (1978)
An Interview with Andrew Gold [Promo-only interview & music LP] (1978)
Whirlwind (1980)
Home is Where the Heart Is (1991)
...Since 1951 (1996)
Halloween Howls (as Andrew Gold & Friends) (1996)
Greetings from Planet Love (as The Fraternal Order of the All) (1996)
Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold (1997)
Leftovers (1998)
Warm Breezes (1998)
The Spence Manor Suite (2000)
Intermission (2002)
Copy Cat (2008)

With Wax

Common Knowledge (1984)
Magnetic Heaven (1986)
American English (1987)
A Hundred Thousand in Fresh Notes (1989)
The Wax Files ('Best of' compilation) (1997)
Wax Bikini (Compilation of outtakes, demos, etc.) (2000)

Singles

"Of All the Little Girls" (UK release - recorded as duo of 'Villiers & Gold') (1968)
"Woke Up This Morning" (with the band 'Bryndle')(1970)
"Heartaches in Heartaches" (1975)
"That Is Why I Love You" (1975)
"Stay" (1976)
"Do Wah Diddy" (1976)
"One of Them Is Me" (1976)
"Lonely Boy" (1977)
"Go Back Home Again" (1977)
"How Can This Be Love" (1978)
"I'm on My Way" (1978)
"Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978)
"Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978)
"Kiss This One Goodbye" (1979)
"Stranded on the Edge" (1979)
"Nine to Five" (1979)

With Graham Gouldman as Wax

"Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Released under the band's initial name of World In Action) (1984)
"Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Re-released under the band's subsequent name of Common Knowledge) (1984)
"Victoria" (UK - Released under the band name of Common Knowledge) (1985)
"Right Between The Eyes" (1986)
"Ball & Chain" (1986)
"Shadows of Love" (1986)
"Systematic" (1986)
"Bridge to Your Heart" (1987)
"In Some Other World" (1987)
"American English" (1987)
"Anchors Aweigh" (1989)
"Wherever You Are" (1989)

Bryndle
Wax

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