"Yoo Doo Right" is a song on Can's 1969 debut album, ''

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'', which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a mere twenty minutes. The song features a pounding, tribal-influenced rhythm section throughout, along with singer

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repeatedly reading excerpts from a love letter in an almost

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-like manner. Can continued to play the song after Mooney's departure, as heard on the '' Can Live'' album. It has been

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in abbreviated form by the

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and others. In 2001, shortly after the death of Can's guitarist

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, a group of musicians associated with the Austrian composer

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performed this song in several hour-long concerts in his memory. The song was remixed by 3p for the double

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compilation

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in 1997, reduced to a three-minute, verse-chorus-bridge pop piece.

covered the song on the 1990 album '' Sack Full of Silver''. The first track on the

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album ''

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'', "Movin' on Up", features the line "I was blind, now I can see, you made a believer outta me" which also appears in the lyrics of "Yoo Doo Right".Hands, Steve (August 2005)
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References

External links

Yoo Doo Right
music performance in memory of Michael Karoli (1948-2001) with video

of Yoo Doo Right 1969 songs Can (band) songs {{1960s-song-stub