Allen Toussaint does a terrific version of "Yes We Can Can" on the 2005 tribute/fundraiser CD "Our New Orleans: A Benefit for the Gulf Coast," backed by an all-star group of fellow displaced Orleanians. Considered in a new context, it becomes quite an inspiring anthem for civic recovery.

I'm tempted to conclude that Allen wrote the song (as he has so many others), but I'm not sure. I did a quick Google search to find out, but all those stupid lyric sites "credit" the recording artist, not the composer. I found assertions that the song was "by" the Pointer Sisters, "by" Harry Connick Jr., and "by" Assorted Artists (referring to its appearance on "Our New Orleans," where Mr. Toussaint was one of the assorted artists, the one singing and playing "Yes We Can Can").