Andrew Gold
Oldies Music Lyrics

Return with me to 1975 and those memorable oldies music lyrics from the Andrew Gold song, "That's Why I Love You." Let's bring back the best of times with that one special girl surrounded by the lyrics, "It's the smile on your face, It's your style and your grace...And that's why, that's why I love you."
 
A man with this much talent should certainly be entitled to more than this one simple page that I have provided and not just because I enjoyed one particular song of his more than his others.

Memories and perfect lyrics from the song reach back in time as you recall that special lady with the words ..."You're a party with the lights down low, you're my Friday night movie show, love me tender on the radio, just hold me tight and don't let go." 

Andrew Gold died on June 3rd, 2011 at the young age of 59 and is in my opinion, one of the most underrated artists of our time.

Writing his first songs at 13, songwriter and session legend Andrew Gold is an amazing talent, a singer-songwriter, session musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, film composer, actor and painter.

In 1973 he was invited to work with Linda Ronstadt. One of their best collaborations was her breakthrough album, "Heart Like a Wheel" (1974).

His guitar arrangement on “You’re No Good” was as exciting for me as when I first heard James Burton playing "Believe What You Say" on Ricky Nelson's #1 hit many years ago. It was also Ronstadt's first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.

Throughout the years, he played and/or sang on records and/or live performances with Carly Simon, Jennifer Warnes, Stephen Bishop, Nicolette Larson, Maria Muldaur, Neil Diamond, Barbi Benton, Juice Newton, Leo Sayer, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Karla Bonoff, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Brian Wilson, and Don Henley.

He has written hits for Trisha Yearwood and Wynonna Judd.

Please continue below the video and allow me to tell you more amazing information about this multi-talented entertainer, Andrew Gold.

Andrew Gold has toured with The Eagles, played on records and toured with Jackson Browne, produced, wrote and sang/played on three 10cc tracks; played and sang on records and toured with James Taylor, produced singles for Vince Gill, and wrote and produced for Celine Dion; was second engineer on part of Joni Mitchell's Blue album.

Are you beginning to grasp my "underrated artist" opinion here? Please read on...

His rendition of the theme from the television series "Mad About You," entitled Final Frontier, was used as the wake-up call for the Mars Pathfinder space probe in 1996, giving him the distinction of being the first human voice to be heard on the surface of Mars.

The casual music listener or TV watcher might know Mr. Gold from one of his most popular hit singles “Thank You For Being a Friend”, but the tune was of course used as the theme for "The Golden Girls" sitcom.

I don't know if he was on facebook but what if you would have friended him on Facebook. Would you have been excited to send him the message “Thank you for being a Facebook friend"? If he was on facebook I'll bet he got that a lot:)