If you were to ask me who Andrew Gold was I would have had no idea. Or if you asked me who wrote the songs that he wrote I would have had no idea.
“Andrew Gold, the singer-songwriter best known for 1977's "Lonely Boy" single, died Friday in his sleep from a heart attack. He was 59.
That song was heard in films such as Boogie Nights and Water Boy. Another song, "Thank You for Being a Friend," was heard on TV each week for almost a decade as the theme song for The Golden Girls…” www.people.com
“Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011)[1] was an American singer, musician and songwriter. His works include the Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" (1977), as well as the singles "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978), and "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978).
His rendition of the theme from the television series Mad About You, entitled "Final Frontier," was used as the wake-up call for theMars Pathfinder space probe in 1996.[2]
Gold was a prolific multi-instrumentalist as artist, producer, film composer, session musician, actor, painter, and singer…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gold
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