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''Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme'' () is the 1974 debut studio album from influential Yugoslav rock band
Bijelo Dugme () is a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav Rock music, rock band, formed in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1974. is widely considered to have been the most popular and the best-selling band ever to exist in the former S ...
. The album was polled the 14th on the 100 Greatest Yugoslav Rock and Pop Albums list in the 1998 book '' YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike'' (''YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Pop and Rock Music'').


Recording

Prior to the release of the album, Bijelo Dugme had large success with their
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s. The band's record label,
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, intended to release Bijelo Dugme's first album during the spring of 1975, but the group's manager, Vladimir Mihaljek, managed to persuade the label's executives to release the record during the autumn of 1974. The recording sessions started on 2 October 1974 in Akademik Studio in
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. The album was produced by the band members themselves, with help from Akademik Studio's in-house producer Dečo Žgur. The album featured a new version of the title track, which the band had originally released as a
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in 1973 while still performing under the name Jutro.


Track listing

All songs were written by
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, except where noted.


Personnel

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Goran Bregović Goran Bregović ( sr-Cyrl, Горан Бреговић; born 22 March 1950) is a recording artist born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavic speaking countries in the ...
– guitar, harmonica *
Željko Bebek Želimir "Željko" Bebek (born 16 December 1945) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian-Croatian vocalist and musician most notable for being the lead singer of the SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme from 1974 until 1984. He has since ...
– vocals *
Zoran Redžić Zoran Redžić (born 29 January 1948) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian musician, best known for playing the bass guitar in the popular Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav rock music, rock band Bijelo Dugme. Born in Sarajevo, Bo ...
– bass guitar *
Ipe Ivandić Goran "Ipe" Ivandić (December 10, 1955 – January 12, 1994) was a Bosnian rock drummer, famous for his work with the band Bijelo Dugme. Early life Ivandić was born to father Josip and mother Mirjana in the central Bosnian town of Vareš wh ...
– drums *
Vlado Pravdić Vladimir "Vlado" Pravdić (6 December 1949 – 5 December 2023) was a Bosnian musician who was the organist of the Yugoslav rock group Bijelo Dugme from 1974 to 1976 and again from 1978 to 1987. Biography Born in Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzeg ...
– organ, synthesizer, electric piano, piano


Additional personnel

*Miro Bevc – engineer *Dragan S. Stefanović – design, cover photo *Boris Dučić – photography


Album cover

The album cover was designed by designer Dragan S. Stefanović, who would go on to design covers for several of the band's future releases. Four decades after the album release, it was revealed that the name of the model was Ljiljana Božanić. Rock critic Dražen Vrdoljak stated in 1981 that ''Kad bi bio bijelo dugme'' album cover "represented a shift in conceiving the covers of domestic ugoslavrock albums, identical to the shift Bregović's music made on our rock scene".


Reception

The album was well received by audience and critics alike. In a ''
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'' magazine review,
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wrote: The intro to the album's opening track was referred to as "pastirski" (
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-like) by rock critic in his review published on 30 November 1974 in ''Studio''. Few weeks later, a write-up about the album in ''Tina'' magazine used the term "pastirski rok" (''
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rock''). The term was soon picked up by a wider section of the Yugoslav public and used frequently, often pejoratively, to describe Bijelo Dugme's
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and
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-influenced
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sound mixed in with the
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elements. The album's biggest hits were the title track,
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-influenced hit "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira", and the
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" Selma", the latter featuring lyrics written by poet Vlado Dijak. Immediately upon its release, the album broke the record for the best selling Yugoslav rock album held by YU Grupa's debut album, which sold in more than 30,000 copies. In February 1975, Bijelo Dugme was awarded a
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at the
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Festival, as they sold more than 40,000 copies of the debut. The final number of copies sold was roughly 141,000.


Legacy

The album was polled in 1998 as the 14th on the list of 100 Greatest Yugoslav Rock and Pop Albums in the book '' YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike'' (''YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Rock and Pop Music''). The title track was polled in 2000 as the 97th on the Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times list. In 2015, ''Kad bi bio bijelo dugme'' album cover was ranked 20th on the list of 100 Greatest Album Covers of Yugoslav Rock published by
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Balkanrock.


Covers

*Yugoslav pop trio Aska recorded a Bijelo Dugme songs medley on their 1982 album ''Disco Rock'', featuring, among other Bijelo Dugme songs, "Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme" and "Patim, evo, deset dana". *Yugoslav and Bosnian folk rock band
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recorded a cover of "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira" on their 1987 album ''Ništa više nije kao prije'' (''Nothing's like It Used to Be''). *
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n and Yugoslav singer-songwriter
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recorded a cover of "Selma" on his 1989 album ''Ako jednom puknem ja'' (''If I Go into Pieces One Day''). *
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n and Yugoslav rock band Sokoli recorded a cover of "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira", featuring guest appearance by Serbian and Yugoslav musician Momčilo Bajagić on vocals, on their 1992 album ''Satan je blazn zmatran'' (''Satan Is Dog Tired''). *Serbian rock band Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi recorded a cover of "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira" on their 1994 live album ''Igra rokenrol SR Jugoslavija'' (''
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Is Dancing to Rock 'n' Roll''). *
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n pop singer Severina recorded a cover of "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira" on her 1993 album ''Dalmatinka'' (''Girl from
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''). *Serbian
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band Cony recorded a cover of "Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme" on their 1993 album ''Šta bih dao da sam na tvom mjestu'' (''What Would I Give to Be in Your Place''), the title of the album alluding to the title of Bijelo Dugme's second album, ''
Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu ''Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu'' () is the second studio album from the Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme, released in 1975. The album was polled the 17th on the 100 Greatest Yugoslav Rock and Pop Albums list in the 1998 book '' YU 100: najbolji ...
'' (''What Would You Give to Be in My Place''). *Croatian and Yugoslav singer-songwriter and former Azra leader Branimir "Džoni" Štulić released covers of "Selma" and "Kad bi bio bijelo dugme" on his official YouTube channel in 2011 and 2012 respectively."SELMA" via Branimir Štulić, YouTube
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