YU ROCK FROM SIXTIES

        PRO   ARTE  first studio album from 1970.  

        PRO   ARTE  is a pop rock band from Sarajevo, especially popular in the former Yugoslavia in the 1970s. The group was founded in 1967. The keyboardist and composer Đorđe Novković was the only constant in the band, through which passed some say as many as 100 musicians. Another constant of the band was their lead singer Vladimir Savčić Čobi, which is a part came after a number of earlier singers. It was only with him the band is experiencing its first successes. Đorđe Novković is also played with Indexi, since 1968. (replaced Kornelije Kovač who went to the Korni groupa) until the beginning of 1970 when it was replaced by Ranko Rihtman and he returned to the Pro Arte. This is their first single record from 1969. (from wikipedia)

    SON ORI  were a rock band from Rijeka (Croatia) in former Yugoslavia. This is their only one song recorded in 1965.

        "It's Beat Time" is the first album by  MATT   COLLINS  released on the European market in 1965.

        MATT   COLLINS  sixth EP from 1965.

        MATT   COLLINS  fifth EP from 1965.

        MATT   COLLINS  fourth EP recorded with the band Crveni koralji from 1965.

        MATT   COLLINS  third EP from 1964.

        MATT   COLLINS  second EP from 1963.

        MATT   COLLINS  first EP from 1963.

        MATT   COLLINS   was born as Karlo Metikoš on February 8, 1940 in Zagreb, Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia). Studied to become a classical pianist but got absorbed into rock and roll in 1956 via couple of singles (Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Little Richard) that he got as a present with an imported record player. Finding replacement needles for western gramophones was next to impossible in 50's Yugoslavia so he had to improvise with ordinary sewing needles to cater for his hunger for music. Needles to say he played those few precious records to the bone. Got his first paying job in 1958 in a cabaret show. Since nobody in the management knew nothing about rock and roll they simply filed him under negro spirituals and made him wear black shoe polish makeup on stage. In 1959 he puts together a vocal group "Regal", and sings to French tourists in holiday resorts on the Adriatic coast. The band appears a few times on regional television which sparks a controversy o...

        URA GANI  was the first rock band in ex-Yugoslavia. Band founded by Dario Ottaviani, Ante Škobrnja, Mario Peharda & Saša Sablić 1960 in Rijeka, Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia). In 1967 they had a big hit "Školjka" and in 1968 they had a second big hit "Deborah". They split up in 1970.

        URA GANI  one and only one EP from 1968.

        URA GANI  first single record from 1966.

        DŽENTL MENI  first single record from 1970.

        DŽENTL MENI   second EP from 1969.

        DŽENTL MENI  first EP from 1968.

        DŽENTL MENI  was formed in 1966 in Beograd, Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia) by Slobodan Todorović (guitar and vocals), Živorad "Žika" Jelić (bass guitar), Milan Buza (rhythm guitar) and Velibor "Boka" Bogdanović (drums), getting the name "Džentlmeni" on Todorović's idea, despite Jelić's suggestion of naming the band "Žetoni". The lineup performed until April 1967 when the band had split in two fractions. Todorović did not continue working with any of the fractions, moving to Siluete and then to the band CD. Milan Buza, with Branko Stefanović (vocals), Đorđe Doksas (solo guitar), Moma Lukić (drums) and Dušan Ćućuz (bass guitar), performed under the moniker Džentlmeni for approximately a year at local parties before disbanding in 1968. The other fraction, featuring Bogdanović and Jelić, continued working with the new Džentlmeni lineup, completed by Mihajlo Simikić (tenor saxophone, clarinet, piano and vocals), Branko Marušić "Čutura...

        PLAMENIH   PET  was a rock band from Beograd (Serbia) in former Yugoslavia, active in mid 60s. Members were Bane Aranđelović (vocal, guitar), Momir Petrović (guitar, vocal), Dragoljub Pavlović (bass), Dragoslav Lazarević (keyboard) and Dobrivoje Radojević (drums).

      ELI PSE  some recordings from 1963-1965.

  ELI PSE  second EP from 1967.

  ELI PSE  first EP from 1966.

   ELI PSE  first single record from 1965.

        ELI PSE  started in 1963 in Beograd, Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia). In the beginning they played covers of The Shadows and became very popular in the mid 60's. After Edi Dekeng joined the band as singer in 1967, they changed music orientation to r'n'b/soul. The group was disbanded by the end of 1968. Members were Momčilo Radovanović, Bojan Hreljac, Vladimir Furduj, Zoran Simjanović, Edi Dekeng, Nikola Zembić and Dragan Kuprijanov. (from discogs.com)

  PLAVI   DEČACI  were a rock band from Beograd-Novi Zemun (Serbia) in former Yugoslavia. The band was active from 1964-1967. This is their only surviving recording from 1967.