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|song name                = We Can Funk
 
|song name                = We Can Funk
|single image              = [[Image:Graffitibridge.jpg|100px|link=Album: Graffiti Bridge]]<br>
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|album image              = [[Image:Graffitibridge.jpg|100px|link=Album: Graffiti Bridge]]<br>
<small> from the album [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]</small>
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<small> from the album [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]</small> <br> [[File:Purplerain_Deluxe.jpg|100px|link=Album:_Purple_Rain_Deluxe]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: Purple Rain Deluxe|Purple Rain ''Deluxe'']]
|performer                = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] & [[Prince]]
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|single image              = [[File:Ouicanluv album.jpg|x100px|link=Album: Oui Can Luv]] <br><small> from the streamed album [[Album: Oui Can Luv|Oui Can Luv]] (as '''Oui Can Luv''')<br></small>  
|first released            = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 20|20 August, 1990]] - [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] album
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|performer                = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] & [[Prince]]; [[Andy Allo]] featuring [[Prince]]; [[Prince and the Revolution|Prince & The Revolution]]  
|album(s)                  = [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]
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|first released            = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 20|20 August 1990]] - [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] album  <br> [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 23|23 June 2017]] - [[Album: Purple Rain Deluxe|Purple Rain ''Deluxe'']] album  
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|album(s)                  = [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]<br>
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[[Album: Oui Can Luv|Oui Can Luv]]  <br>
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[[Album: Purple Rain Deluxe|Purple Rain ''Deluxe'']]  
 
|writer(s)                = [[Prince]]
 
|writer(s)                = [[Prince]]
|producer(s)              = [[Prince]]
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|producer(s)              = [[Prince]]; [[Prince]] (assumed, no credits given); [[Prince]]  
 
|previous song            = [[We Are America]]
 
|previous song            = [[We Are America]]
 
|next song                = [[We Can (Get It On)]]
 
|next song                = [[We Can (Get It On)]]
|introduction              = '''We Can Funk''' is the seventh track on [[Prince]]'s 12th album [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]], and is credited as a duet between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] and [[Prince]]. The track is also featured in the movie [[Film: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]. In 2011, a 1:00 video (audio only with a static image) of an acoustic demo of the track recorded by [[Andy Allo]] (as '''Oui Can Luv''', with a revised chorus to match) was streamed on her [[Andy Allo Facebook Streams|Facebook page]], with the tagline "CHECK OUT WHAT EYE FOUND IN PRINCE'S VAULT (Demo recorded in Sacramento on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August_31|8/31/11]] using ProTools 9 & a Sterling Audio ST69 Mic)", followed a few weeks later by a full-length version of the same track. [[Prince]] is believed to play acoustic guitar on this version.
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|introduction              = '''We Can Funk''' is the seventh track on [[Prince]]'s 12th album [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]], and is credited as a duet between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] and [[Prince]]. The track is also featured in the movie [[Film: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]. In 2015, an acoustic version of the track, with some lyrical changes and renamed '''Oui Can Luv''', was included as the eighth track on the acoustic album [[Album: Oui Can Luv|Oui Can Luv]] by [[Andy Allo]] featuring [[Prince]] on acoustic guitar.  The original version titled '''We Can Fuck''' was released (as '''We Can F**k''') as the tenth track on the ''From The Vault & Previously Unreleased'' disc of the [[Album: Purple Rain Deluxe|Purple Rain ''Deluxe'']] album in June 2017.
  
Initial tracking for [[Prince]]'s original solo version took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 31|31 December, 1983]] at [[Sunset Sound]], Hollywood, CA, USA, as '''We Can Fuck''' (the day after [[Erotic City]] and [[She's Always In My Hair]]), with additional work the following day, [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January 1|1 January, 1984]]. [[Prince]] later toned down the title and lyrics of the song, and re-recorded the track on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 17|17 June, 1986]] at the [[Washington Avenue Warehouse]], Eden Prairie, MN, USA (in sequence after [[Data Bank]] and [[Can't Stop This Feeling I Got]], the day before recording [[Girl O' My Dreams]]). The 1983 recording was returned to and updated in 1989 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA, and this updated version, without [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] on vocals, was included as the sixth track on a 1989 configuration of [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] added vocal overdubs in late 1989-1990, also at [[Paisley Park Studios]], and the final version was included as the seventh track on a 1990 configuration of [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]], where it remained for release.
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While the song emerged from a jam on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 30|30 December 1983]] at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California, basic tracking for the original version took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 31|31 December 1983]] and [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January 1|1 January 1984]] (still at [[Sunset Sound]]), as '''We Can Fuck''' (although listed as "The Dawn" and "Moral Majority" respectively, as the original title was considered 'too raunchy').  
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[[Prince]] would later tone down the title and lyrics of the song, and re-recorded the track on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 17|17 June 1986]] at the [[Washington Avenue Warehouse]] in Eden Prairie, Minnesota (in sequence after [[Data Bank]] and [[Can't Stop This Feeling I Got]], the day before recording [[Girl O' My Dreams]]). At one point Prince had [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micki_Free Micki Free] fly to Minneapolis to record lead vocals. It is unclear when this took place and to which version the vocals were added.
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The 1983 recording was returned to and updated in 1989 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, and this updated version, without [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] on vocals, was included as the sixth track on a 1989 configuration of [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] added vocal overdubs in late 1989-1990, also at [[Paisley Park Studios]], and the final version was included as the seventh track on a 1990 configuration of [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]], where it remained for release.
  
 
The track's lyrics mention the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra], considered to be the most important work in a long line of Indian erotic literature, written by the Hindu philosopher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%81tsy%C4%81yana Vātsyāyana] ([[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] later named the first and only album by [[The NPG Orchestra]] [[Album: Kamasutra|Kamasutra]]).
 
The track's lyrics mention the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra], considered to be the most important work in a long line of Indian erotic literature, written by the Hindu philosopher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%81tsy%C4%81yana Vātsyāyana] ([[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] later named the first and only album by [[The NPG Orchestra]] [[Album: Kamasutra|Kamasutra]]).
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In 2011, a 1:00 video (audio only with a static image) of an acoustic demo of the track recorded by [[Andy Allo]] (as '''Oui Can Luv''', with a revised chorus to match) was streamed on her [[Andy Allo Facebook Streams|Facebook page]], with the tagline "CHECK OUT WHAT EYE FOUND IN PRINCE'S VAULT (Demo recorded in Sacramento on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August_31|8/31/11]] using ProTools 9 & a Sterling Audio ST69 Mic)", followed a few weeks later by a full-length version of the same track. The track was re-recorded in a similar acoustic version; while specific recording dates for the acoustic re-recording are not known, it is believed to have been recorded in  Autumn 2011 to mid-2012 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, during sessions for [[Andy Allo]]'s second album [[Album: Superconductor|Superconductor]].
 
|recording info            =
 
|recording info            =
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 31|31 December, 1983]]
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|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 30|30 December 1983]]
|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]], Hollywood, CA, USA
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|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]] - Studio 3,<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
|additional info          = Initial tracking (as '''We Can Fuck''')
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|additional info          = Jam session originating riff, no recording
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January 1|1 January, 1984]]
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|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 31|31 December 1983]]
|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]], Hollywood, CA, USA
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|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]] - Studio 3,<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
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|additional info          = Basic tracking (as '''We Can Fuck''')
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}}
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{{RecordingLine|
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|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January 1|1 January 1984]]
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|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]] - Studio 3,<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
 
|additional info          = Additional recording and mixing
 
|additional info          = Additional recording and mixing
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 17|17 June, 1986]]
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|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January 2|2 January 1984]]
|studio                    = [[Washington Avenue Warehouse]], Eden Prairie, MN, USA
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|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]] - Studio 3,<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
|additional info          = Initial tracking (as '''We Can Funk''')
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|additional info          = Overdubs, vocals and mixing
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Summer, 1986
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|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 17|17 June 1986]]
|studio                    = [[Washington Avenue Warehouse]], Eden Prairie, MN, USA
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|studio                    = [[Washington Avenue Warehouse]],<br>Eden Prairie, MN, USA
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|additional info          = Basic tracking (as '''We Can Funk''')
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}}
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{{RecordingLine|
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|date                      = Summer 1986
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|studio                    = [[Washington Avenue Warehouse]],<br>Eden Prairie, MN, USA
 
|additional info          = Additional recording
 
|additional info          = Additional recording
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}}
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{{RecordingLine|
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|date                      = Unknown date
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|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
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|additional info          = Vocal overdubs by Micki Free
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
|date                      = 1989-1990
 
|date                      = 1989-1990
|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA
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|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|additional info          = Re-recording
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|additional info          = Additional recording (1983 version)
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}}
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{{RecordingLine|
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|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 31|31 August 2011]]
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|studio                    = Unknown location,<br>Sacramento, CA, USA
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|additional info          = Acoustic recording, as '''Oui Can Luv''', by [[Andy Allo]] and [[Prince]]
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 31|31 August, 2011]]
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|date                      = Autumn 2011 to mid-2012 (assumed)
|studio                    = Unknown location, Sacramento, CA, USA
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|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|additional info          = Demo recording ([[Andy Allo]] version)
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|additional info          = Acoustic re-recording, as '''Oui Can Luv''', by [[Andy Allo]] and [[Prince]]
 
}}
 
}}
 
|recording personnel      =  
 
|recording personnel      =  
'''Released version'''
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'''Graffiti Bridge version'''
 
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
 
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] - co-lead vocals<br>
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician) George Clinton] - co-lead vocals<br>
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*Sandra Dance - background voices<br>
 
*Sandra Dance - background voices<br>
 
<br>
 
<br>
'''Unreleased 1983 version'''
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'''Purple Rain ''Deluxe'' version''' (as '''We Can F**k''')
 
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
 
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
 
*[[Wendy Melvoin]] - guitar and background vocals
 
*[[Wendy Melvoin]] - guitar and background vocals
 
*[[Lisa Coleman]] - keyboards and background vocals
 
*[[Lisa Coleman]] - keyboards and background vocals
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*[[David Coleman]] - oud and finger cymbals
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*[[Jill Jones]] - vox  (uncredited)
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<hr>
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*[[Bill Jackson]] – engineer
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*[[Terry Christian]] – engineer
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
'''Unreleased 1986 version'''
 
'''Unreleased 1986 version'''
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|5=  
 
|5=  
 
}}
 
}}
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{{Songline|
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|1= '''We Can F**k'''
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|2= 10:17
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|3= [[Album: Purple Rain Deluxe|Purple Rain ''Deluxe'' (From The Vault & Previously Unreleased)]]<br>
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|4= Studio
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|5= original 1983 recording
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}}
 
}}
 
}}
 
|sampled in                =
 
|sampled in                =
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|3=
 
|3=
 
|4= Studio
 
|4= Studio
|5= Unreleased 1989 track; contains musical clips from [[Graffiti Bridge]], [[The Question Of U]], [[Elephants & Flowers]], [[We Can Funk]], [[The Big Pump]], [[Cloreen Baconskin]] and [[Oliver's House]]; see [[Soulpsychodelicide-2|Soulpsychodelicide]] for details
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|5= Unreleased 1989 track
 
}}
 
}}
 
}}
 
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|1= '''We Can Fuck'''
 
|1= '''We Can Fuck'''
 
|2= Studio
 
|2= Studio
|3= 1983 preliminary verison
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|3= 1983 preliminary version
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{Unreleasedline|
 
{{Unreleasedline|
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}}
 
|video versions            =  
 
|video versions            =  
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{{SongVideo|
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|video versions            =
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{{Songchart|
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|line =
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{{Songline|
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|1= '''We Can Funk'''
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|2= 1:33
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|3= [[Film: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] DVD
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|4= Studio
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|5= Part of the album version but with an edited ending
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}}
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|broadcasts, streaming    =  
 
|broadcasts, streaming    =  
 
{{SongBroadcast|
 
{{SongBroadcast|
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|4= Demo
 
|4= Demo
 
|5= Full-length recording with lower levels to eliminate audio problems
 
|5= Full-length recording with lower levels to eliminate audio problems
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}}
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{{Songline|
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|1= '''Oui Can Luv'''
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|2= 4:20
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|3= [[Album: Oui Can Luv|Oui Can Luv]] [[Tidal]] stream
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|4= Studio
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|5= [[Andy Allo]] featuring [[Prince]]
 
}}
 
}}
 
}}
 
}}
 
}}
 
}}
|first live appearance    = [[03_June,_1990|3 June, 1990, Stadion Feyenoord, Rotterdam, The Netherlands]] <small>(lyrics incorporated into [[Baby I'm A Star]])</small><br>
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|first live appearance    = [[03_June 1990|3 June 1990, Stadion Feyenoord, Rotterdam, the Netherlands]] <small>''(lyrics incorporated into [[Baby I'm A Star]])''</small>; [[10_June 1990|10 June 1990, Niedersachsen stadion, Hannover, Germany]] <small>(more complete version)</small> <br>
* [[10_June,_1990|10 June, 1990, Niedersachsen stadion, Hannover, Germany]] <small>(more complete version)</small>
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* [[21 January 1991|21 January 1991: Estadio Monumental A. Vespucio Liberti (River Plate), Buenos Aires, Argentina]]<small>''(lyrics incorporated into [[Baby I'm A Star]])''</small>
 
|performed regularly on    = [[Nude Tour]] <small>(mainly as vocal clips during [[Baby I'm A Star]])</small>
 
|performed regularly on    = [[Nude Tour]] <small>(mainly as vocal clips during [[Baby I'm A Star]])</small>
|performed occasionally in =  This song is not known to have been performed other than on the [[Nude Tour]].
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|performed occasionally in =  This song is not known to have been performed other than on the [[Nude Tour]] and few 1991 one-off performances.
 
|trivia                    = As the original title '''We Can Fuck''' was considered not suitable to put on the work order sheet, engineer Terry Christian initially labeled the song as "The Dawn". When [[Prince]] finished work on the song the next day he retitled it "Moral Majority" on the working order, but that was never the actual title of the song. The 1982 [[Vanity 6]] song with the title [[Moral Majority]] nor the 1996 song [[Welcome 2 The Dawn]] have anything to do with '''We Can Funk'''.
 
|trivia                    = As the original title '''We Can Fuck''' was considered not suitable to put on the work order sheet, engineer Terry Christian initially labeled the song as "The Dawn". When [[Prince]] finished work on the song the next day he retitled it "Moral Majority" on the working order, but that was never the actual title of the song. The 1982 [[Vanity 6]] song with the title [[Moral Majority]] nor the 1996 song [[Welcome 2 The Dawn]] have anything to do with '''We Can Funk'''.
 
|see also                  = [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] album
 
|see also                  = [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] album
 
* [[Film: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] movie
 
* [[Film: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] movie
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* [[Andy Allo]]
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* [[Album: Oui Can Luv|Oui Can Luv]] album
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* [[Tidal]]
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* [[Album: Purple Rain Deluxe|Purple Rain ''Deluxe'']]
 
|references                = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]] ''
 
|references                = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]] ''
|categories                = [[Category:1990]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Recorded 1983]]
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* ''[https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Purple-Rain-Studio-Sessions/dp/1538114623/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)]''
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|categories                = [[Category:1990]][[Category:2017]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Recorded 1983]][[Category:Recorded 1986]]
 
}}
 
}}

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We Can Funk

Graffitibridge.jpg

from the album Graffiti Bridge
Purplerain Deluxe.jpg
from the album Purple Rain Deluxe

Ouicanluv album.jpg
from the streamed album Oui Can Luv (as Oui Can Luv)
Song details
Performer: George Clinton & Prince; Andy Allo featuring Prince; Prince & The Revolution
First Released: 20 August 1990 - Graffiti Bridge album
23 June 2017 - Purple Rain Deluxe album
Album(s): Graffiti Bridge

Oui Can Luv
Purple Rain Deluxe

Writer(s): Prince
Producer(s): Prince; Prince (assumed, no credits given); Prince
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
Performed occasionally in shows:
  • This song is not known to have been performed other than on the Nude Tour and few 1991 one-off performances.

We Can Funk is the seventh track on Prince's 12th album Graffiti Bridge, and is credited as a duet between George Clinton and Prince. The track is also featured in the movie Graffiti Bridge. In 2015, an acoustic version of the track, with some lyrical changes and renamed Oui Can Luv, was included as the eighth track on the acoustic album Oui Can Luv by Andy Allo featuring Prince on acoustic guitar. The original version titled We Can Fuck was released (as We Can F**k) as the tenth track on the From The Vault & Previously Unreleased disc of the Purple Rain Deluxe album in June 2017.

While the song emerged from a jam on 30 December 1983 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California, basic tracking for the original version took place on 31 December 1983 and 1 January 1984 (still at Sunset Sound), as We Can Fuck (although listed as "The Dawn" and "Moral Majority" respectively, as the original title was considered 'too raunchy').

Prince would later tone down the title and lyrics of the song, and re-recorded the track on 17 June 1986 at the Washington Avenue Warehouse in Eden Prairie, Minnesota (in sequence after Data Bank and Can't Stop This Feeling I Got, the day before recording Girl O' My Dreams). At one point Prince had Micki Free fly to Minneapolis to record lead vocals. It is unclear when this took place and to which version the vocals were added.

The 1983 recording was returned to and updated in 1989 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, and this updated version, without George Clinton on vocals, was included as the sixth track on a 1989 configuration of Graffiti Bridge. George Clinton added vocal overdubs in late 1989-1990, also at Paisley Park Studios, and the final version was included as the seventh track on a 1990 configuration of Graffiti Bridge, where it remained for release.

The track's lyrics mention the Kama Sutra, considered to be the most important work in a long line of Indian erotic literature, written by the Hindu philosopher Vātsyāyana (SymbolSmallerBlue.png later named the first and only album by The NPG Orchestra Kamasutra).

In 2011, a 1:00 video (audio only with a static image) of an acoustic demo of the track recorded by Andy Allo (as Oui Can Luv, with a revised chorus to match) was streamed on her Facebook page, with the tagline "CHECK OUT WHAT EYE FOUND IN PRINCE'S VAULT (Demo recorded in Sacramento on 8/31/11 using ProTools 9 & a Sterling Audio ST69 Mic)", followed a few weeks later by a full-length version of the same track. The track was re-recorded in a similar acoustic version; while specific recording dates for the acoustic re-recording are not known, it is believed to have been recorded in Autumn 2011 to mid-2012 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, during sessions for Andy Allo's second album Superconductor.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
30 December 1983 Sunset Sound - Studio 3,
Hollywood, CA, USA
Jam session originating riff, no recording
31 December 1983 Sunset Sound - Studio 3,
Hollywood, CA, USA
Basic tracking (as We Can Fuck)
1 January 1984 Sunset Sound - Studio 3,
Hollywood, CA, USA
Additional recording and mixing
2 January 1984 Sunset Sound - Studio 3,
Hollywood, CA, USA
Overdubs, vocals and mixing
17 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Eden Prairie, MN, USA
Basic tracking (as We Can Funk)
Summer 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Eden Prairie, MN, USA
Additional recording
Unknown date Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Vocal overdubs by Micki Free
1989-1990 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Additional recording (1983 version)
31 August 2011 Unknown location,
Sacramento, CA, USA
Acoustic recording, as Oui Can Luv, by Andy Allo and Prince
Autumn 2011 to mid-2012 (assumed) Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Acoustic re-recording, as Oui Can Luv, by Andy Allo and Prince
Recording Personnel

Graffiti Bridge version


Purple Rain Deluxe version (as We Can F**k)



Unreleased 1986 version


Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
We Can Funk 5:28 Graffiti Bridge Studio
We Can F**k 10:17 Purple Rain Deluxe (From The Vault & Previously Unreleased)
Studio original 1983 recording
Video Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
We Can Funk 1:33 Graffiti Bridge DVD Studio Part of the album version but with an edited ending
Broadcasts/streaming (only)
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Oui Can Luv 1:00 Andy Allo Facebook audio stream Demo clip of full-length recording
Oui Can Luv 4:21 Andy Allo Facebook audio stream Demo Full-length recording with some audio problems
Oui Can Luv 4:21 Andy Allo Facebook audio stream Demo Full-length recording with lower levels to eliminate audio problems
Oui Can Luv 4:20 Oui Can Luv Tidal stream Studio Andy Allo featuring Prince
Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in...
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Soulpsychodelicide Studio Unreleased 1989 track
Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
We Can Fuck Studio 1983 preliminary version
We Can Funk Studio Initial raw take
We Can Funk Studio Overdubs added
We Can Funk Studio 'Finished' 1986 version
We Can Funk Studio 1989-1990 update of 1983 version with no George Clinton input
We Can Funk Studio Longer 1989-1990 version with slight George Clinton input
We Can Funk Studio 1989-1990 version with significant George Clinton vocal input
We Can Funk Studio Longer version edited for album, with some musical variations
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia

  • As the original title We Can Fuck was considered not suitable to put on the work order sheet, engineer Terry Christian initially labeled the song as "The Dawn". When Prince finished work on the song the next day he retitled it "Moral Majority" on the working order, but that was never the actual title of the song. The 1982 Vanity 6 song with the title Moral Majority nor the 1996 song Welcome 2 The Dawn have anything to do with We Can Funk.

References
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