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

Tracklist

• 1
  Thank You for Being a Friend
  4:42
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Lonely Boy
  4:21
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Oh Urania (Take Me Away)
  4:21
• 4
  Never Let Her Slip Away
  3:30
  5.0 ★
• 5
  How Can This Be Love
  3:57
  5.0 ★
• 6
  You’re Free
  4:08
• 7
  Hope You Feel Good
  4:46
  5.0 ★
• 8
  One of Them Is Me
  3:58
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Kiss This One Goodbye
  4:04
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Go Back Home Again
  3:12
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Looking for My Love
  3:37
• 12
  Endless Flight
  4:58
• 13
  That’s Why I Love You
  3:10
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Heartaches in Heartaches
  3:13
• 15
  Firefly
  3:22
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Passing Thing
  4:09
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Still You Linger On
  3:20

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Release credits

• Andrew Gold
  background vocals [1, 3-6, 8, 15], bass [13, 15], clavinet [3], congas [10], cowbell [2], drums (drum set) [13, 15], electric piano [6, 8, 11, 13], finger cymbals [8], guitar [5-6, 9-10, 10-15, 17], handclaps [2], harmonium [11], lead vocals [7, 16], organ [9], percussion [1, 4-6, 12-15], piano [1-3, 5-7, 10, 12, 14, 16-17], producer [1, 3-6, 9, 11, 17], recorder [7], shakers [7], solo [10], synthesizer [1, 3-4, 15], tambourine [2, 7, 10], timpani [11], tom-tom [10], vocal [1-3, 5-10, 12-17]
• Beau Segal
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Brad Palmer
  bass [6]
• Brock Walsh
  acoustic guitar [8], background vocals [1, 4-10, 16], electric piano [2], percussion [4], producer [1, 3-6, 11, 17], synthesizer [2]
• Bryan Garofalo
  bass [9]
• Chuck Plotkin
  producer [12-14]
• Dan Dugmore
  guitar [2, 10], pedal steel guitar [12], steel guitar [8]
• David Kemper
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Dennis Kirk
  assistant [2, 7-8, 10, 15-16], engineer [1, 3-6, 11, 17]
• Don Francisco
  background vocals [13]
• Don Menza
  shakuhachi [16]
• Ernie Watts
  saxophone [4]
• Gene Garfin
  background vocals [13]
• George Ybara
  assistant [1, 3-6, 11, 17]
• Greg Ladanyi
  assistant [2, 7-8, 10, 15-16], engineer [1, 3-6, 9, 11, 17], mix [9]
• J.D. Souther
  background vocals [4]
• Jeff Hawks
  assistant [12-14]
• Jeff Porcaro
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Jim Nipar
  engineer [9], mix [9]
• Kenny Edwards
  background vocals [1, 7-8, 10, 13-14], bass [1-2, 5, 7-8, 10, 12, 14]
• Leland Sklar
  bass [3, 16]
• Linda Ronstadt
  background vocals [2, 14]
• Michael Boshears
  recording [12-14]
• Michael Botts
  bell [2], drums (drum set) [2, 8-10, 14]
• Peter Asher
  handclaps [2], producer [2, 7-8, 10, 15-16], shakers [8], tambourine [8]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Russ Kunkel
  drums (drum set) [3, 7, 16]
• Val Garay
  engineer [2, 7-8, 10, 12-16]
• Waddy Wachtel
  electric guitar [8], guitar [1-2, 5, 7]
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Issues

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

  CD
  24 June 1997
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  Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold

  Digital Media
  15 March 2005