Again, recording company "Jugoton" shows some strange logic by releasing new song as a single backed by four years old number from their archives.
It wouldn't matter really but singer had completely changed since 1969 when B side was originally performed on local choice for Eurovision festival. That year she was still "biggest music discovery of the year" and "child wonder" with awesome deep alto voice who worked her way trough some bombastic big band orchestrations like "Još te čekam" (I'm still waiting) that doesn't sound any different from tons of other big bombastic numbers of the time. The voice is almost intimidating in its power and matureness but the song is frankly,weak.
Flash forward in 1971 when Karlo Metikoš enters the scene and is so impressed with young singer that he decides to take composers role specially for her. He knows about music business, being first rock star in the country a decade ago and works as a sort of Pygmalion with Lisac who experiments with different sound and uses more pronounced nasal sound as her main trademark since than. Metikoš might have written other songs for her before,but "Raduj se,srce moje" (Be happy,heart of mine) is officially first song recorded by him as a composer for Lisac and it immediately brings her out of depressing ballads she sang until than, the song is actually upbeat and uses same folk motive like the ones Metikoš would use later for their classic "Dnevnik jedne ljubavi" album in 1973. It was fairly sized hit on pop charts and therefore strangely ignored later on official compilations. Perhaps it was seen as only experiment for their future work together. Metikoš would use this kind of upbeat folk motives again some 16 years later in the song "Ja bolujem".
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