Thank Heaven for Little Girls Thank Heaven for Little Girls "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with its original performer, Maurice Chevalier. It opened and closed the 1958 film "Gigi". Alfred Drake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of "Gigi", though in the 2015 revival, it was sung as a duet between Victoria Clark and Dee Hoty. The Chevalier version is often regarded as the definitive version of the song; he recorded it in 1958. In 2004, it finished at #56 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top
Thank You for Being a Friend Thank You for Being a Friend "Thank You for Being a Friend" is a song written by Andrew Gold, who recorded it for his third album, "All This and Heaven Too". The song reached number 25 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in 1978. On the "Cash Box" chart, "Thank You for Being a Friend" spent two weeks at #11. The song was later re-recorded by Cynthia Fee (also known for her work with Kenny Rogers) to serve as the theme song for the NBC sitcom "The Golden Girls", and recorded again for the series' CBS spin-off "The Golden Palace".