"Život moj" (My life) was true blue-eyed soul where young Josipa Lisac breaks away with huge orchestrated ballads and introduces modern contemporary sound to a big festival stages. The song was composed by great Arsen Dedić who probably never dreamed that his poetic lyrics would be topped with her screaming performance, clearly inspired by Janis joplin. Backed with actually very good r&b band "Grupa MI" from Šibenik, the song was a huge hit at the time and placed young singer right in the center of the pop scene as opposite to mainstream "schlager" music she clearly wanted to distance herself from. She could go commercial route if inclined so but luckily refused to sell out and followed her imagination, even if this didn't make much profit. It did worked like magic on a young generation who will grow up to be her faithful audience in decades coming and will support her when everybody else faded.
B side is equally interesting gloomy number "Spustila se kiša" (The rain has fallen) unjustly forgotten now but still shines today as prime example of early 1970s power of a singer without competition on a local scene. The most interesting thing about it is that it was composed by Ićo Kelemen (who also wrote classic "Oluja" for her) and Mišo Dolezal whose daughter Sanja will became huge pop star in 1980s and later.
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