( What a Beautiful World )" is a track on Steely Dan founding member Donald Fagen's 1982 album, The Nightfly.

Because of Fagen's reluctance to sing live, David Palmer handled most of the vocal duties on stage.

After time off and work on solo records, yielding Fagen's Morph the Cat and its subsequent tour, they embarked on Steelyard " Sugartooth " McDan and The Fab-Originees. com Tour in 2006.

While finishing work on Pretzel Logic, Baxter became aware of Becker and Fagen's intentions to retire Steely Dan from touring, and to work almost exclusively with session players in the future.

All three of Fagen's albums previously released on the DVDA format have now been released in Warner's latest format MVI ( Music Video Interactive ) as a boxed set.

In 1991, The Manhattan Transfer recorded Fagen's song " Confide in Me " on their album The Offbeat of Avenues.

The album follows a lengthy writer's block for Fagen ; the songs are based on personal observations about middle age ( as 1982's The Nightfly is lyrically described as fantasies of Fagen's youth and 2006's Morph the Cat ruminations of old age and death ).

* Rob Mounsey-Almost all sounds on Madonna's number one hit " Crazy for You ," Phil Collins's number one hit " Against All Odds ," many overdubs on Paul Simon's " Graceland ," Steely Dan's " Gaucho ," Donald Fagen's " Nightfly "

At the insistence of ABC Records executives, Palmer sang lead on two tracks on Steely Dan's 1972 debut album, Can't Buy A Thrill —" Dirty Work " and " Brooklyn ( Owes the Charmer Under Me )"— as well as doubling parts of Donald Fagen's vocals on " Reeling in the Years ", " Only a Fool Would Say That ", and " Change of the Guard " to reach the high notes.

He also sang lead on all of Steely Dan's songs when performed live in their early concerts as a result of Fagen's lack of live vocal power at this point.

The tour supporting this album would be the last time any version of Steely Dan appeared live until decades later, as Becker and Fagen's disillusionment with live performance during the tour would lead both to an end of such performances and a disbanding of the Steely Dan lineup.

On October 25, 1991, Becker attended a concert of the New York Rock and Soul Revue, co-founded by Fagen and producer / singer Libby Titus ( who was for many years the partner of Levon Helm of The Band and would later become Fagen's wife ), and performed spontaneously with the group.

He plays keyboards and sings with his stepdaughter, Amy Helm ( Amy's mother is Fagen's wife, Libby Titus ).

This led to several low-key and non-professional collaborations, including several aborted songwriting sessions and Becker's stint in 1991 with Fagen's New York Rock and Soul Revue, that would ultimately lead to their proper reunion two years later.

It was significantly more jazz-based than Fagen's Steely Dan work.

" Simon, upon hearing Fagen's description, said it " isn't far from the truth.

The addition of Palmer as a second lead vocalist was due to a combination of Fagen's resistance to singing in front of an audience and the label's feeling that his voice was not " commercial " enough.

1993 saw Becker's production of Fagen's second solo album Kamakiriad.

Fagen's second solo album, 1993's Kamakiriad, was produced by Becker.

Recording sessions for Fagen's third solo album, Morph the Cat, began in August 2004 and the album was released March 14, 2006.

Fagen's management also sold VIP packages for the tour, which included a pre-show party, premium seats and access to the band's sound checks.

Fagen's own versions of both " Confide in Me " and " Big Noise New York " were released as ' B ' sides for the CD singles of the Kamakiriad tracks " Tomorrow's Girls " and " Snowbound ," respectively.

With Becker acting initially as bassist, the group spent the following three years touring and recording before becoming a studio-centered project anchored around Becker and Fagen's songwriting in 1974.

Becker also produced Fagen's album Kamakiriad in 1993.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

Although modern word processors routinely allow that, at the time this capability was so unusual that the company's name referred to the " interleaving " of text and graphics.

The court routinely grants the right to such a name change in the final divorce decree.

Mussorgsky apparently did not take the new spelling seriously, and played on the ' rubbish ' connection in letters to Vladimir Stasov and Stasov's family, routinely signing his name ' Musoryanin ', or ' garbage-dweller ' ( cf.

However, members ' names do commonly include second names which are called surnames but which are not routinely passed down from either father or mother to all their children as a family name.

Note well that if a culture did include one's clan name in one's name and routinely handed it down to all children in the descent group then it would automatically be the family name or surname for one's descent group ( as well as for all other descent groups in one's clan ).

The catenary gets its name as the solution to the problem of a hanging chain, the sort of question that became routinely accessible by means of differential calculus.

This was due primarily to his dislike for the name Adolph ( as a child, he was routinely called " Ahdie " instead ).

The name of the school from which the fob or key came was also not routinely included on the earliest models, and sometimes the only way to trace a key to a particular school's chapter is by researching the name of the recipient against surviving class records.

He even used his own name to pawn a stolen item, knowing that police routinely check pawn shop records for stolen merchandise.

The Anglo-Saxons routinely identified Mercury with Woden ; both rule Wednesday ( which takes its name from Woden in English ).

" It's fair to say that producers were free to interpret the name any way they wanted, just as they routinely changed other elements of comic lore to suit their various series.

" New Columbia " is the name of the proposed U. S. state that would be created by the admission of the District of Columbia into the United States as the 51st state according to legislation offered starting in the 98th Congress in 1983 and routinely re-introduced in succeeding Congresses.

A known Brazilian psychic healer who routinely practiced psychic surgery was Zé Arigó, who claimed to be channeling for a deceased medical doctor of name Dr. Fritz.

Stamp colors are routinely described by color name rather with any sort of a numerical system like CMYK ; several color guides showing a selection of colors have been produced, but are not especially popular with collectors.

However, it is routinely described as " the Worlds " by top strongman competitors and despite the critics, it is the leading brand name in the field.

However, it is routinely described as " the Worlds " by top strongman competitors and despite the critics, it is the leading brand name in the field.

Supervisors routinely waive parking and rental fees for various organizations, provide bus trips and give free tickets to county facilities to constituents, and build projects for the community with the supervisor's name clearly marked.

Many leasing corporations ( those organisations and / or people who own and rent apartments ) now routinely perform criminal background checks and disqualify ex-convicts ( although many apartments, especially in the inner city or in areas with high crime rates, even if having such an official policy, do not follow it, or it leads to a situation where apartments are held in the name of a someone other than the occupant without a felony record ).

Bills routinely appear on statements as transactions under the name of a billing entity with a neutral-sounding company name ( ostensibly for discretionary reasons ) and may not be readily recognized as paysite billing transactions upon casual perusal of bank statements.