Arsen Dedic - "Onaj Dan" (2:38)
Zdenka Vuckovic - "Bosonoga" (2:47)
Bogdan Dimitrijevic - "O Barquinho" (2:44)
Nino Robic - "Jedna Nota (Samba De Uma Nota So)" (2:30)
Milan Bacic - "Ho-Ba-La-La" (2:02)
Beti Jurkovic - "Ljuljacka" (2:59)
Elda Viler - "Senca Tvojega Nasmeha (The Shadow Of Your Smile)" (2:33)
Arsen Dedic - "Cesto Te Sretnem" (2:39)
Bogdan Dimitrijevic - "Hershey Bar" (2:28)
Zdenka Vuckovic - "Izgubljeno (Desafinado)" (3:37)
Drago Diklic - "Moja Draga" (2:47)
Krunoslav Kico Slabinac - "Tko Si Ti" (2:57)
Plesni Orkestar RTZ - "Plava Krizantema" (3:12)
Gabi Novak I Radojka Sverko - "Za Mene Je Sreca (Samba Da Rosa)" (2:55)
Dubrovacki Trubaduri - "Ljuven Zov" (2:16)
Vikica Breser - "Suncano Ljeto" (3:15)
Drago Diklic - "Nitko Na Svijetu" (3:28)
Visnja Korbar - "Subotnje Vece" (3:26)
Arsen Dedic - "Veceras" (2:02)
Jimmy Stanic & Glenn Rich Orchestra - "The Girl From Ipanema" (3:33)
Review: Long before bossa nova washed up on Yugoslavia's Adriatic shores, Latin American sounds had already unpicked and repatched parts of the country's musical fabric. Afro-Cuban rhythms and big band jazz held sway in Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Belgrade ballrooms, with street corners in Split ringing to jazz as early as 1919. This compilation from Everland, curated by DJ-Gree, represents the best, and by that token most uniquely angelically intoned, cuts from the era, riffing on European Post-WWII repression that had formerly pushed jazz underground. By the early 60s, Yugoslavia's festival culture welcomed samba, tango, mambo, and calypso, and by 1963, Bud Shank's visit with Bosko Petrovic's quintet marked many locals' first taste of bossa nova. That same year, Jugoton released the 7" EP Bossa Nova by Bogdan Dimitrijevic, revisited among the other great many delights heard on display here.
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