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Early years

The group was founded in July 1969 by Doğan Canku, Ahmet Kurtaran and Selami Karaibrahimgil. In the same year they accompanied

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in her song ''Bebek''. In 1970, they began to produce their own records. In 1971 September two members of the group got married and they temporarily put a halt to their activities.Turuncu page
/ref> Beginning by the end of 1972 however they resumed their activities. Their new LP of 1973 included arranged form of Turkish art music and an example of Western music as well as their conventional genre. Also in 1973 they participated in singing a multi singer melody ''Arkadaş Dur Bekle'' (Turkish version of Auntie) and ''Kim Ayırdı Sevenleri'', Turkish version of Une Belle Histoire,

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's famous song together with Tanju Okan and Nilüfer. These songs were recorded as 45 rpm.

Music contests

The group participated in Seoul Music competition in 1978 with Ali Kocatepe. They also attempted to represent Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contests 1978 and

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; in the first case with

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and in the second case with

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. They took third place in 1978 and first place in 1981. Nevertheless, in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 in

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, they gained only 9 points and shared 18th place with Portugal.

Later years

During the 1990s they concentrated on the concerts. One of the important CDs in the 1990s was ''İstanbul Şarkıları'' (Songs of İstanbul) with

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. But that CD was made by Yapı ve Kredi Bankası, a bank and was not released to public. After 2000 they released their own albums. Original members of the band hasn't changed except period between 1995 and 1999, when Doğan Canku was replaced with

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Discography

45 rpms

* Deriko & Ali Paşa Ağıdı (1970) * Sarhoş Oğlan & Leblebi (1970) * Tello & Su Gelir Ark Uyanır (1970) * Diley Diley Yar & Gelin Ayşe (1970) * Klasikler I & Ağlamak Geliyor İçimden (1973) * Arkadaş Dur Bekle & Kim Ayırdı Sevenleri ? (1973) (With Tanju Okan and Nilüfer) (1973) * Hiç Belli Olmaz & Unutalım Her Derdi (1973) * Dözerem & Dudilli (1974) * Gecelerim & Elif (1975) * Dostluğa Davet & Takalar (1978) (As "Anatolia Major" with

) * Dönme Dolap (With

) & Miras (It was sung by Coşkun Demir) (1981)

Albums (As LP, MC and CD)

Doğan Canku (Solo)

*Doğan Canku (1981, LP, 1 Numara Plakçılık) *Köçekçeler (1987, MC, Kent; CD version was later released by EMI) *Sonsuza Dek & Ayrılık (1990, Gökalp Plakçılık, MC, CD version was later released by Ada Müzik) *Doğa-n'ın Uyanışı (2000, Ada Müzik, CD)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Modern Folk Uclusu Musical groups established in 1969 Turkish musical groups Turkish musical trios Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1981 Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Turkey