"Yoo Doo Right" is the closing track on Can's 1969 debut album, ''

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'', edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a twenty-minute song. "Yoo Doo Right" features a pounding, tribal drums, along with a "colossal, grinding riff, subjected to endless variation and intensification", while

Malcolm Mooney Malcolm "Desse" Mooney (born 1944) is an American singer, poet, and artist, best known as the original vocalist for German krautrock band Can (band), Can. Biography Early life Malcolm Mooney's father, after serving in the navy, became a jazz pia ...

chants excerpts from a love letter in a

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-like manner.

Legacy

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

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in abbreviated form by the

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, Masaki Batoh, Susheela Raman,

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, The Wendys, and others. In 2001, shortly after the death of Can guitarist

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, a group of musicians associated with Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl 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 ''Sacrilege'' in 1997, reduced to a three-minute, verse-chorus-bridge pop piece. "Movin' on Up" by

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quotes the lyric "I was blind, now I can see, you made a believer outta me" from "Yoo Doo Right".

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