TMC
08-10-2023, 09:42 PM
https://popculturereferences.com/ironically-thank-you-for-being-a-friend-was-specifically-about-young-friends/
Today, we look at the interesting fact about how the future theme song to The Golden Girls was specifically about YOUNG friendships.
This is “Theme of a Melody,” (https://popculturereferences.com/category/theme-of-a-melody/) a feature where I examine the background behind famous TV theme songs.
The Golden Girls launched in 1985, and it was a surprise hit sitcom about four retired women living together in Miami. It’s also, of course, amusing to look back and say, “Oh, so they were all about Tom Cruise’s current age when the show started, except for Rue McClanahan, who was about a decade YOUNGER then than Cruise is now.”
The show had a very catchy theme song that is now irreversibly linked with the show itself, sung by Cindy Fee (credited as Cynthia Fee), a well-regarded vocalist in the industry who was used commonly as a demo singer, jingle singer, background singer and, in this case, at least, a TV theme song singer!
Now, while it was certainly not unheard of for a sitcom to use a popular song as its theme (there are many famous examples that I’m sure you can all think of), it was still a BIT unusual. In this instance, the song was by Andrew Gold, who had a minor hit with the original “Thank You For Being a Friend” version back in 1978, hitting #25 on the Billboard charts (a couple of years earlier, of course, Gold had a much bigger hit with 1976’s “Lonely Boy”)…
Today, we look at the interesting fact about how the future theme song to The Golden Girls was specifically about YOUNG friendships.
This is “Theme of a Melody,” (https://popculturereferences.com/category/theme-of-a-melody/) a feature where I examine the background behind famous TV theme songs.
The Golden Girls launched in 1985, and it was a surprise hit sitcom about four retired women living together in Miami. It’s also, of course, amusing to look back and say, “Oh, so they were all about Tom Cruise’s current age when the show started, except for Rue McClanahan, who was about a decade YOUNGER then than Cruise is now.”
The show had a very catchy theme song that is now irreversibly linked with the show itself, sung by Cindy Fee (credited as Cynthia Fee), a well-regarded vocalist in the industry who was used commonly as a demo singer, jingle singer, background singer and, in this case, at least, a TV theme song singer!
Now, while it was certainly not unheard of for a sitcom to use a popular song as its theme (there are many famous examples that I’m sure you can all think of), it was still a BIT unusual. In this instance, the song was by Andrew Gold, who had a minor hit with the original “Thank You For Being a Friend” version back in 1978, hitting #25 on the Billboard charts (a couple of years earlier, of course, Gold had a much bigger hit with 1976’s “Lonely Boy”)…