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Connecting to Betty with a single song

by Melissa Elsmo January 12, 2022January 13, 2022

An instant earworm. That’s “Thank You for Being a Friend” a song written in under an hour by Andrew Gold, pop rock singer, and released in 1978 on his third album, “All this and Heaven, too.” Gold considered the song to be a “throwaway.” A throwaway until the ditty was re-recorded for the NBC sitcom, […]

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