Korni Grupa
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Korni Grupa was a former Yugoslav rock
band from Belgrade
. Korni Grupa was one of the first former Yugoslav rock bands to achieve major mainstream popularity. The band's first releases were commercial pop
-oriented songs. Korni Grupa later turned towards progressive rock
, continuing, however, to record commercial pop rock
songs. The band was led by Kornelije Kovač
, and its various lineups included a number of famous musicians: Dado Topić
, Zdravko Čolić
, Zlatko Pejaković
, and others.
by a former Indexi
keyboardist
Kornelije Kovač
. The first lineup of the band featured the guitarist
Borko Kacl (a former Zlatni Dečaci
member), the bass guitarist Bojan Hreljac (a former Elipse
member), the drummer
Vladimir "Furda" Furduj (a former Elipse member) and the female singer Miroslava "Seka" Kojadinović. The band had its first live appearance in Belgrade's Dom sindikata at the Sportsman of the Year Award ceremony, when they performed with female dancers. Soon afterwards the band was invited to perform in Radio Belgrade
show Studio VI vam pruža šansu. Miroslava Kojadinović did not like the choice of the songs and she refused to sing, so for the band's appearance in the show Kovač provided the vocals. After this performance Miroslava Kojadinović was excluded from the band and soon after started a short-lasting solo career.
The new Korni Grupa vocalist became soul
singer Dušan "Prele" Prelević. At the time Kovač was influenced by progressive rock
, but as the audience expected simple and commercial songs, he wrote pop
-oriented song "Cigu-ligu" which Korni Grupa performed at the 1968 Jugovizija festival in Zagreb
. Prelević arrived drunk
to the performance and went into an argument with Kovač, so soon afterwards he was excluded from the band. The new Korni Grupa singer became Dalibor Brun from Rijeka
, a former Uragani and Bohemi member. With Brun Korni Grupa recorded their first hits "Magična ruka", "Sonata" and "Dzum-ram". The band appeared at the Singing Europe festival in Netherlands
performing the folk
-influenced song "Pastir i cvet", winning the Most Original Band Award. They held their first concert in Belgrade on November 6, 1969 in Dom omladine. The concert was titled "Uz malu pomoć naših frendova" (With A Little Help from Our Friends).
In 1969 Dalibor Brun left the band conventionally, and the band's new singer became a former Dinamiti member Dado Topić
who soon after brought another former Dinamiti member, guitarist Josip Boček to the band. Kacl soon left the band, and retired from music (and died in a car accident
in 1984). With Topić, Korni Grupa turned to more progressive-oriented sound, recording "Jedna žena", "Prvo svetlo u kući broj 4", classical music
-inspired "Etida" and "Žena je luka a čovek brod". At the 1970 Zagreb music festival Korni Grupa won both audience and jury awards. The same year they recorded the music for Miša Radivojević's movie Bube u glavi. This project was followed by a number of hit songs: "Trla baba lan" (which would later be recorded in French
by singer Dalida
, and later on in several other different languages by a number of artists) and "Slika", among others.
In 1971 Korni Grupa recorded the musical poem "1941." on the lyrics of Branko Ćopić
. Josipa Lisac
made a guest appearance on the song. The band spent a month in Paris
, playing at the fashion show
which presented "Prokleta Jerina" line of clothing by fashion designer Aleksandar Joksimović. In 1971 Topić left the band and formed Time
. The new Korni Grupa vocalist became a former Ambasadori
member Zdravko Čolić
, who remained the band's vocalist for only six months, recording the songs "Gospa Mica gazdarica", "Kukavica" and "Pogledaj u nebo". After leaving Korni Grupa he started a highly successful solo career.
A former Zlatni Akordi and Had member Zlatko Pejaković
became the band's new singer. With Pejaković Korni Grupa recorded their first full-length album, Korni Grupa. At the time of the album release Korni Grupa was one of four former Yugoslav rock bands with a full-length album (Grupa 220, Žeteoci and Time
being the other three), as the scene revolved mostly around 7" singles. The album featured complex songs "Put na Istok", "Bezglave Ja Ha horde", "Moj bol", "Glas sa obale boja". In 1972 the band performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival
.
At the end of 1973 Korni Grupa recorded a symphonic rock
-oriented English language
album Not An Ordinary Life, which they released under the name The Cornelians. On the Yugoslav scene the band had huge success with songs "Oj, dodole", "Ivo Lola", "Znam za kim zvono zvoni" (which featured guest singer Ditka Haberl), "Divlje jagode", "Miris" (with lyrics from a Charles Baudelaire
's poem) and "Praštanje" (with lyrics by poet Brana Crnčević, at the time considered a dissident
). At the spring of 1974 they won first place at the festival in Opatija with the song "Moja generacija
" and represented Yugoslavia at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. Single with "Moja generacija" and shortened version of "Jednoj ženi" was released in Italy
. In the same year the music magazine Music Week
declared Korni Grupa Yugoslav band of the year.
Disappointed with little success Not An Ordinary Life saw and the 12th place won at the Eurovision Song Contest, Kovač decided to disband Korni Grupa. They held two farewell concerts in Studio M in Novi Sad
. Part of the concerts recording was released on the first former Yugoslav double album
Mrtvo more (Dead Sea
). One record featured their singles, representing commercial and more pop-oriented side of Korni Grupa, while the other featured live recordings, representing their progressive side. Various artists live album Randevu s muzikom released in 1977 featured Korni Grupa songs "I ne tako obićan život" and "Jedna žena" recorded at Novi Sad farewell concerts.
After Korni Grupa disbanded Kovač started a successful career as a composer, Pejaković turned towards pop music, Boček and Hreljac became studio musicians and Furduj started a jazz
career.
, Time
, YU grupa
, Drago Mlinarec and R.M. Točak Band
at the Legende YU Rocka (Legends of YU Rock) concert organized by Radio 101
at Zagreb
's Dom Sportova
. Korni Grupa song "Jedna žena" appeared on the double live album Legende YU Rocka. The same artists performed that same year in Belgrade's Sava Centar.
stated that there are plans of a Korni Grupa reunion tour during 2012, the year when Kornelije Kovač
will celebrate his 70th birthday, featuring the band accompanied by a philharmonic orchestra and the performances would be more than four hours long.
recorded a cover of Korni Grupa song "Magična ruka" ("Magical Hand") on their 1996 unplugged
album Živo i akustično
(Live and Acoustic).
The book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music), published in 1988, features two Korni Grupa albums: Korni Grupa (ranked #4) and 1941. (ranked #94).
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band from Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
. Korni Grupa was one of the first former Yugoslav rock bands to achieve major mainstream popularity. The band's first releases were commercial pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
-oriented songs. Korni Grupa later turned towards progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
, continuing, however, to record commercial pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...
songs. The band was led by Kornelije Kovač
Kornelije Kovac
Kornelije "Bata" Kovač is a famous Serbian composer. He is a father of Aleksandra Kovač and Kristina Kovač, both successful Serbian singers.-Early life:...
, and its various lineups included a number of famous musicians: Dado Topić
Dado Topic
Adolf "Dado" Topić is a singer who sang the entry from Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 together with the band Dragonfly. He is one of the most popular rock musicians of Croatia and the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer of Time, a 1970s progressive rock band...
, Zdravko Čolić
Zdravko Colic
Zdravko Čolić , is a pop singer popular across the entire area of former Yugoslavia. Originally from Sarajevo, since 1992 , his home is in Belgrade, Serbia...
, Zlatko Pejaković
Zlatko Pejakovic
Zlatko Pejaković is a Croatian singer. He has released over twenty five albums over a career of over thirty years.Pejaković was born in Osijek, and he started his music career in 1967, sang in Korni Grupa band from 1972 to 1974, and began a solo career in the second half of the 1970s.A notable hit...
, and others.
1968–1974
Korni Grupa was formed in September 1968 in BelgradeBelgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
by a former Indexi
Indexi
Indexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died...
keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
Kornelije Kovač
Kornelije Kovac
Kornelije "Bata" Kovač is a famous Serbian composer. He is a father of Aleksandra Kovač and Kristina Kovač, both successful Serbian singers.-Early life:...
. The first lineup of the band featured the guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Borko Kacl (a former Zlatni Dečaci
Zlatni Dečaci
Zlatni Dečaci were a former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade, notable as one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.- History :...
member), the bass guitarist Bojan Hreljac (a former Elipse
Elipse (band)
Elipse were a former Yugoslav rock and soul group from Belgrade, notable as one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.- The beat years :...
member), the drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Vladimir "Furda" Furduj (a former Elipse member) and the female singer Miroslava "Seka" Kojadinović. The band had its first live appearance in Belgrade's Dom sindikata at the Sportsman of the Year Award ceremony, when they performed with female dancers. Soon afterwards the band was invited to perform in Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade is a state-owned and operated radio station in Belgrade, Serbia.The predecessor of Radio Beograd, Radio Beograd-Rakovica, started its program in 1924 and was a part of a state wireless telegraph station. Radio Beograd, AD started in March 1929...
show Studio VI vam pruža šansu. Miroslava Kojadinović did not like the choice of the songs and she refused to sing, so for the band's appearance in the show Kovač provided the vocals. After this performance Miroslava Kojadinović was excluded from the band and soon after started a short-lasting solo career.
The new Korni Grupa vocalist became soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
singer Dušan "Prele" Prelević. At the time Kovač was influenced by progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
, but as the audience expected simple and commercial songs, he wrote pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
-oriented song "Cigu-ligu" which Korni Grupa performed at the 1968 Jugovizija festival in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
. Prelević arrived drunk
Drunkenness
Alcohol intoxication is a physiological state that occurs when a person has a high level of ethanol in his or her blood....
to the performance and went into an argument with Kovač, so soon afterwards he was excluded from the band. The new Korni Grupa singer became Dalibor Brun from Rijeka
Rijeka
Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...
, a former Uragani and Bohemi member. With Brun Korni Grupa recorded their first hits "Magična ruka", "Sonata" and "Dzum-ram". The band appeared at the Singing Europe festival in Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
performing the folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
-influenced song "Pastir i cvet", winning the Most Original Band Award. They held their first concert in Belgrade on November 6, 1969 in Dom omladine. The concert was titled "Uz malu pomoć naših frendova" (With A Little Help from Our Friends).
In 1969 Dalibor Brun left the band conventionally, and the band's new singer became a former Dinamiti member Dado Topić
Dado Topic
Adolf "Dado" Topić is a singer who sang the entry from Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 together with the band Dragonfly. He is one of the most popular rock musicians of Croatia and the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer of Time, a 1970s progressive rock band...
who soon after brought another former Dinamiti member, guitarist Josip Boček to the band. Kacl soon left the band, and retired from music (and died in a car accident
Car accident
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in 1984). With Topić, Korni Grupa turned to more progressive-oriented sound, recording "Jedna žena", "Prvo svetlo u kući broj 4", classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
-inspired "Etida" and "Žena je luka a čovek brod". At the 1970 Zagreb music festival Korni Grupa won both audience and jury awards. The same year they recorded the music for Miša Radivojević's movie Bube u glavi. This project was followed by a number of hit songs: "Trla baba lan" (which would later be recorded in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
by singer Dalida
Dalida
Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
, and later on in several other different languages by a number of artists) and "Slika", among others.
In 1971 Korni Grupa recorded the musical poem "1941." on the lyrics of Branko Ćopić
Branko Copic
Branko Ćopić was Yugoslav writer. He was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.Upon the uprising in...
. Josipa Lisac
Josipa Lisac
Josipa Lisac is an eminent female singer.-Biography:During the 1960s she was a vocalist of the group named Zlatni Akordi...
made a guest appearance on the song. The band spent a month in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, playing at the fashion show
Fashion show
A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase his or her upcoming line of clothing during Fashion Week. Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter seasons. This is where the latest fashion trends are made...
which presented "Prokleta Jerina" line of clothing by fashion designer Aleksandar Joksimović. In 1971 Topić left the band and formed Time
Time (rock band)
Time was a rock band from Yugoslavia that was formed in 1971 by Dado Topić after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original lineup consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović , Vedran Božić , Mario Mavrin , Ratko Divjak and Brane Lambert Živković...
. The new Korni Grupa vocalist became a former Ambasadori
Ambasadori
Ambasadori were a Yugoslav pop band from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina active from 1968 until 1980. The band is most notable for representing Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest, and for having two future pop stars Zdravko Čolić and Hari Varešanović as its one time singers.Ambasadori were...
member Zdravko Čolić
Zdravko Colic
Zdravko Čolić , is a pop singer popular across the entire area of former Yugoslavia. Originally from Sarajevo, since 1992 , his home is in Belgrade, Serbia...
, who remained the band's vocalist for only six months, recording the songs "Gospa Mica gazdarica", "Kukavica" and "Pogledaj u nebo". After leaving Korni Grupa he started a highly successful solo career.
A former Zlatni Akordi and Had member Zlatko Pejaković
Zlatko Pejakovic
Zlatko Pejaković is a Croatian singer. He has released over twenty five albums over a career of over thirty years.Pejaković was born in Osijek, and he started his music career in 1967, sang in Korni Grupa band from 1972 to 1974, and began a solo career in the second half of the 1970s.A notable hit...
became the band's new singer. With Pejaković Korni Grupa recorded their first full-length album, Korni Grupa. At the time of the album release Korni Grupa was one of four former Yugoslav rock bands with a full-length album (Grupa 220, Žeteoci and Time
Time (rock band)
Time was a rock band from Yugoslavia that was formed in 1971 by Dado Topić after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original lineup consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović , Vedran Božić , Mario Mavrin , Ratko Divjak and Brane Lambert Živković...
being the other three), as the scene revolved mostly around 7" singles. The album featured complex songs "Put na Istok", "Bezglave Ja Ha horde", "Moj bol", "Glas sa obale boja". In 1972 the band performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva...
.
At the end of 1973 Korni Grupa recorded a symphonic rock
Symphonic rock
Symphonic rock is a sub-genre of progressive rock. Since early in progressive rock's history, the term has been used sometimes to distinguish more classically influenced progressive rock from the more psychedelic and experimental forms of progressive rock....
-oriented English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
album Not An Ordinary Life, which they released under the name The Cornelians. On the Yugoslav scene the band had huge success with songs "Oj, dodole", "Ivo Lola", "Znam za kim zvono zvoni" (which featured guest singer Ditka Haberl), "Divlje jagode", "Miris" (with lyrics from a Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
's poem) and "Praštanje" (with lyrics by poet Brana Crnčević, at the time considered a dissident
Dissident
A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause they often effect a dissident movement....
). At the spring of 1974 they won first place at the festival in Opatija with the song "Moja generacija
Moja generacija
"Moja generacija" was the Yugoslavian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, performed in Serbo-Croatian by veteran rock band Korni Grupa....
" and represented Yugoslavia at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. Single with "Moja generacija" and shortened version of "Jednoj ženi" was released in Italy
Italy
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. In the same year the music magazine Music Week
Music Week
Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as Music Week . On 17 January 1981 the title was again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to Music & Video Week...
declared Korni Grupa Yugoslav band of the year.
Disappointed with little success Not An Ordinary Life saw and the 12th place won at the Eurovision Song Contest, Kovač decided to disband Korni Grupa. They held two farewell concerts in Studio M in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
. Part of the concerts recording was released on the first former Yugoslav double album
Double album
A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....
Mrtvo more (Dead Sea
Dead Sea
The Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world...
). One record featured their singles, representing commercial and more pop-oriented side of Korni Grupa, while the other featured live recordings, representing their progressive side. Various artists live album Randevu s muzikom released in 1977 featured Korni Grupa songs "I ne tako obićan život" and "Jedna žena" recorded at Novi Sad farewell concerts.
After Korni Grupa disbanded Kovač started a successful career as a composer, Pejaković turned towards pop music, Boček and Hreljac became studio musicians and Furduj started a jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
career.
1987 reunion
The band reunited in 1987 with Dado Topić as the singer to perform, alongside IndexiIndexi
Indexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died...
, Time
Time (rock band)
Time was a rock band from Yugoslavia that was formed in 1971 by Dado Topić after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original lineup consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović , Vedran Božić , Mario Mavrin , Ratko Divjak and Brane Lambert Živković...
, YU grupa
YU grupa
YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....
, Drago Mlinarec and R.M. Točak Band
Radomir Mihajlovic
Radomir Mihailović , also known as Točak , is a Serbian rock guitarist. He is best known as the guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Smak. Mihailović is considered one of the top and most influential guitarists of former Yugoslav rock scene.-Studio albums:*R.M...
at the Legende YU Rocka (Legends of YU Rock) concert organized by Radio 101
Radio 101 (Croatia)
Radio 101 - Independent radio station, with alternative and latest music and breaking news in Croatia. It broadcasts from Zagreb and has a regional license for the City of Zagreb and the Zagreb County, an audience of about 1,200,000 people. It is one of the most popular radio stations in Zagreb...
at Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
's Dom Sportova
Dom Sportova
Dom Sportova is an indoor sporting arena, located in Zagreb, Croatia. The venue was built in 1972, on Trešnjevka, in the western part of the city. It has 32,000 m² of floorspace, and it features six halls...
. Korni Grupa song "Jedna žena" appeared on the double live album Legende YU Rocka. The same artists performed that same year in Belgrade's Sava Centar.
Possible 2012 reunion
In 2010, in an interview, Dado TopićDado Topic
Adolf "Dado" Topić is a singer who sang the entry from Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 together with the band Dragonfly. He is one of the most popular rock musicians of Croatia and the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer of Time, a 1970s progressive rock band...
stated that there are plans of a Korni Grupa reunion tour during 2012, the year when Kornelije Kovač
Kornelije Kovac
Kornelije "Bata" Kovač is a famous Serbian composer. He is a father of Aleksandra Kovač and Kristina Kovač, both successful Serbian singers.-Early life:...
will celebrate his 70th birthday, featuring the band accompanied by a philharmonic orchestra and the performances would be more than four hours long.
Legacy
The band Električni OrgazamElektrični Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
recorded a cover of Korni Grupa song "Magična ruka" ("Magical Hand") on their 1996 unplugged
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...
album Živo i akustično
Živo i akustično
Živo i akustično is the Električni Orgazam unplugged album, released in 1996.- Tracklisting :Source: Discogs- Personnel :* Srđan Gojković Gile * Branislav Petrović Banana * Zoran Radomirović Švaba...
(Live and Acoustic).
The book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike is a book by Duško Antonić and Danilo Štrbac...
(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music), published in 1988, features two Korni Grupa albums: Korni Grupa (ranked #4) and 1941. (ranked #94).
Singles
- "Cigu-ligu" / "Čovek i pas" (1969)
- "Dzum-ram" / "Sonata" / "Magična ruka" (1969)
- "Pastir i cvet" / "Čovek i pas" (1969)
- "Trla baba lan" / "Slika" (1970)
- "Bube" / "Neko spava pored mene" (1970)
- "Kukavica" / "Gospa Mica gazdarica" / "Pogledaj u nebo" (1971)
- "Pusti da te diram" / "Jedan groš" (1971)
- "Pokloni svoj mi foto" / "Bez veze" (1972)
- "Povuci potegni" / "Na četiri točka" / "Maksimetar" / "Zeleni megaherc" (1973)
- "Tri palme" / "Tri čoveka u kafani" (1973)
- "Oj, dodole" / "Život" (1973)
- "Ivo Lola" / "Znam za kim zvono zvoni" (1973)
- "Etida" / "Jednoj ženi" (1973)
- "Moja generacija" / "Zbogom ostaj, o, detinjstvo" (1974)
- "Generation 42" / "One Woman" (1974)
- "Moja genereacija (My Genetartion)" / "Etude" (1974)
- "Kuda ideš, svete moj" / "Divlje jagode" (1974)
- "Miris" / "Praštanje" (1974)