DEF: Donald Fagen “I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World)”

In the early 1980s, Steely Dan lead singer Donald Fagen embarked on a solo career that would produce three singles that appeared on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Just one of those singles reached the Top 40, and it was Fagen’s first charting single, “I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World),” which on this date in 1982 climbed to a peak position of number 26, where it would spend three weeks. “I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World)” by Donald Fagen is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.