Unusual battle of two biggest recording labels in the country resulted with a perfect promotion for young fresh faced singer from Sarajevo who just few years ago was completely unknown - when "Jugoton" released his first album "Ti i ja" that would quickly establish him as the latest poster boy, "PGP RTB" quickly reacted and retaliated with compilation of his early singles for which they had rights. It was not unusual for artists to switch between these two giants, but to my knowledge this was the first time both were so determined to cover the market and get a piece of cake for themselves.
Previously, there were other talented singers in homegrown pop - slightly older Boba Stefanović, Miki Jevremović and awesome Leo Martin had left their mark as solo artists, while Davorin Popović and Vladimir Savčić-Čobi were main focus of their bands, but despite their obvious vocal skills, none of them had such magnetic stage presence as winsome twenty-something artist who also happened to posses his own, individual and very good voice. Going trough apprenticeship during his time in bands Ambasadori and Korni Grupa, young Zdravko Čolić soaked in the influences of his predecessors and created his own brand of soaring vocals where he picked up the best of both pop and rock worlds. While debut album by "Jugoton" pointed at his future direction, this compilation shows where he came from and music he quickly left behind.
Allegedly, his first big chance came almost accidentally - Kemal Monteno wrote a song "Sinoć nisi bila tu" for rock diva Josipa Lisac to perform for upcoming 1972. pop festival "Vaš šlager sezone" but she changed her mind in the last moment and young Čolić stepped in, creating such sensation that he would soon become unstoppable pop phenomenon with series of best-selling hit singles. Music collected here presents this first chapter of his career, where he valiantly had to overcome the old-fashioned orchestrations ubiquitous at the time and even though he sang circles around everybody around, Čolić was clearly posed for much more - its significant that young singers of his generations (Jadranka Stojaković come to mind) had to go trough similar process where they had to accept ideas of older conductors, arrangers and producers before they would find their own music identity. Nothing really wrong with a music here, personally I find it very endearing slice of early 1970s pop and Čolić sings circles around everybody around but soon he would get the material better suited to his age and temperament.
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