"Lutka sa naslovne strane" (trans. "Doll on the Front Cover") is the debut single from the influential Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n and former Yugoslav rock

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 Riblja Čorba

Riblja Corba

Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...

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The song, a hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 ballad about a fame-hungry model, was originally written during the time Riblja Čorba leader Bora Đorđević was a member of the acoustic rock band Suncokret

Suncokret

Suncokret was a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1975 by former Zajedno member Bora Đorđević , a former U Cvetu Mladosti member Nenad Božić and female singers Snežana Jandrlić and Vesna Rakočević...

. The song led to a clash between Đorđević and other members, which caused Đorđević to leave Suncokret and join Rani Mraz

Rani Mraz

Rani Mraz were a former Yugoslav rock band from Novi Sad, formed in 1977 by former Žetva member Đorđe Balašević. During the initial period, the band went through several lineup changes, until Balašević and female singer Biljana Krstić remained the only official members of the band...

. After only three months spent in Rani Mraz, Đorđević left the band and with the members of the band SOS formed Riblja Čorba, which released "Lutka sa naslovne strane" as their debut single. On the song recording jazz

Jazz

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 trumpeter Stjepko Gut

Stjepko Gut

Stjepko Gut is a Belgrade-based jazz musician. Studied jazz trumpet at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern,Switzerland and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. As a conductor, he won first place in the first Austrian Big Band Competition...

 played the piano

Piano

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The song was performed by Đorđević and Arsen Dedić

Arsen Dedic

Arsen Dedić is a Croatian singer-songwriter who has been prominent in the Croatian as well as former Yugoslav music scene. Dedić writes and performs chansons as well as film music...

 on the live album Arsen & Bora Čorba Unplugged `87

Arsen & Bora Čorba Unplugged `87

Arsen & Bora Čorba Unplugged `87 is the bootleg recording of the unplugged concert Croatian singer-songwriter Arsen Dedić and Serbian rock musician Bora Đorđević held in Terazije Theatre in Belgrade on March 6, 1987...

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In 2006 the song was ranked #12 on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list.

B-side features song "On i njegov BMW" (trans. "He and his BMW

BMW

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Personnel

• Bora Đorđević - vocals, acoustic guitar
• Rajko Kojić
  Rajko Kojic
  Radislav "Rajko" Kojić was a Serbian and former Yugoslav guitarist best known for his work with band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
  
   - guitar
• Miša Aleksić
  Miša Aleksic
  Miroslav "Miša" Aleksić is a Serbian musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
  
   - bass guitar
• Vicko Milatović
  Vicko Milatovic
  Miroslav "Vicko" Milatović is a Serbian musician best known as the drummer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Early career:...
  
  - drums