Yoo Doo Right

Song infobox
Name = Yoo Doo Right


Caption =
Type =
Artist = Can
Album = Monster Movie
Published =
Released = 1969
track_no = 4
Recorded =
Genre = krautrock
Length = 20:27
Writer = Can
Label = Mute
Producer = Can
Chart position = "Yoo Doo Right" is a song on Can's 1969 debut album, "Monster Movie", 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 Malcolm Mooney repeatedly reading excepts from a love letter in an almost mantra-like manner.

Can continued to play the song after Mooney's departure, as heard on the "Can Live" album. It has been covered in abbreviated form by the Geraldine Fibbers, Thin White Rope, Masaki Batoh and others. In 2001, shortly after the death of Can's guitarist Michael Karoli, a group of musicians associated with the Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl performed this song in several hour-long concerts in memory of Karoli.

Trivia

The first track on the Primal Scream album "Screamadelica", "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". [http://www.musicomh.com/comment/can_0805.htm]

Links

* [http://www.sammlung-essl.at/deutsch/musik/archiv/div/yoodooright.html Yoo Doo Right] : music performance in memory of Michael Karoli (1948-2001)