S8-E1: Dobro Jutro Džezeri / Bajaga

In each episode, I'll be hosting a Serbian friend to introduce one of the

most popular Serbian singers and their well-known songs.

We'll be speaking both in Serbian and English.

We hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for joining us.

Vala od sırtza!

Dobrdan sevimam! Yasam Maki.

Good morning, I'm Ivana.

Good morning, Ivana.

How are you?

Thank you. It's a little bit of a day, but good.

Sunset.

Sunset and a little cold now, right?

Yes, yes. So, welcome back everyone.

In this season, as we already mentioned in the intro, we are going to

and we are going to have one singer from different times, from different genre.

So today we are going to have someone that I really love.

I will be asking Ivana five questions in Serbian and we are going to

go with the singer first and then we are going to talk about the

song. All right.

Vaje, Ivana, ko je danas naš pevač?

Danas naš pevač je Momčilo Bajagić.

Byaga.

Who is the best song on peva?

To is, can I say, pop rock.

And jazz can be?

It can be like a song on jazz.

It's not really a song on jazz.

It's pop rock with a song on jazz.

And when was he popular?

I kada je bio popularan?

On je počeo da peva i da ima svoj band početkom 80-ih. He started playing with his band.

Znači najpopularniji je bio tada 80-ih pa do kraja 90-ih.

Ali oni dan danas sviraju, to je oni njegova grupa.

Tako da su preživjeli sve ove godine.

Znači skoro 30, ne bogme 40 godina.

Super je. Da, dosta.

I još popularan.

Znamo. Zato što ja slušam oni.

Da. Interesantno. I koja je pesma o kojoj ćemo da pričamo danas?

Pesma se zove Dobro jutro, Džezeri.

I ona je nastala baš u tom početnom periodu.

Mislim da je 1985.

Mnogo davno. Ali dalje je popularna i vrlo interesantna.

Da, znam. I o čemu je ta pesma?

Pesma je kao osvrt na muziku koja je počela da se sluša u to

vreme kod nas 80-ih, to je jazz.

Pesma je u pop-rock stilu, ali sa tim osvrtom na poznate jazzeri i jazz

muziku. I tada je okupljala neke drugačije ljude koji su volili tu vrstu muzike.

Vajže. So, let's see what the lyrics say.

Okay. So, the repeating part is...

Ovo je bila jutarnji.

Hvala što pratite kanal.

So, if you wanna say it in English as well, just that part.

It's about the jazz lovers, jazz singers.

Especially in Belgrade.

Especially in Belgrade, yes.

that he mentioned Dobrojutro jazeri meaning good morning jazers because they stay till early

in the morning and then they go home It's like a good morning but

also goodbye to them because good morning means that it's time to go home

for them Time to go home, yes

So have you ever experienced that atmosphere that place when you were in like

Belgrade that time I guess right?

Yes it was interesting I didn't go on that kind of on his concert

or on the jazz in that moment but it was a lot of other

rock groups that played in that place it was a really specific place it

was very interesting it was some

beginning of the 80s more or less it was like Pašim što pratitev, da

je vršo pop.

Pašim što pratite.

really interesting yeah I like it that time definitely if you were now at

that time with your knowledge now I think you would go to jazz concert

more than rock am I right yes that's true yes yes that's true you're

right I need to tell you how I came up with this guy I

mean how I like found this guy I was showing this um in the

beginning this advertisement on youtube i was trying to learn serbian through the you

know reclama advertisements because they are very fun and easy to remember so i

i found him i knew his song daria i think but this song i

came up with it with this uh advertisement but they make a difference here

of course they are not saying ceseri they are saying yes very i guess

right yes yes yes it was very fun uh and it has couple of

so if you guys are learning um serbian and if you want to have

fun a little bit with the ads this is the ad i think um

that you can practice serbian with and one of the things look at him

in the 80s.

Yes. And look at him now.

How come he still has so much hair?

And black hair, yeah.

Yes. He looks really good, I mean.

You now remind me that he was, let me show that first picture, actually,

the first photo.

A lot of moms in that time wanted to be the

guy, the boyfriend of their, daughters because he was very nice he was very

good looking you know and he was from the belgrade some kind of okay

family meaning okay background you know comparing with the other rock stars you know

because rock stars was always something bad boys right you know yeah yeah and

he was very nice guy oh very cute not cute but handsome meaning handsome

and kind yes yes he's uh he has some you know and yeah yeah

very interesting actually i met him once really during yeah but not in person

meaning that i didn't introduce himself but it was in 90s i i used

to work in some uh some cosmetic center or something like that or it

was a like um now it could be some kind of uh health center

with the gym inside and the cosmetic is something like that and he

came with his wife i think that she went yes as a customer and

it was first time and the last time that i saw him in person

and he just passed by of course yeah but yeah you did not want

to go and say hi no i know okay that's interesting and i

think one of his most popular songs is saturukha yeah that's yeah that's yeah

that's a hit i went on his concert it was i think it was

also 80s yes you just remind me because that was one of the popular

songs yeah yeah as a serbian you have so much nostalgia when you hear

this guy's name so that's why i wanted to include him of course he

has a very very long history he started with actually biblia chorba right the

rock yes yeah and then he started his own his own transition is something

to read on the internet you will find like how everything went it's a

very detailed explanation about his yeah yeah yes he used to play i think

guitar in biblia chorba only guitar he didn't sing and then yeah and then

he moved and made his own band it's still okay with the guitar of

course yeah but i was there i read that is quite rock rock like

yes yes this guy wanted to try jazz pop so they did not want

like they were not on the same page after some time i guess he

was more into yes yes a little bit softer how can i say and

yeah more romantic guy yes more romantic yeah yeah that's the word and another

song that I really like that he sings, I don't know his voice there

is so nice 442 do Belgrada that song is one of my favorites I

like it so much when I run, I listen to that song I think

now for 442 do Belgrada that was to je bilo za Zagreb Zagreb je

442 od Beograda, ali onda smo se setili da je Skoplje 442 od

Beograda, ali mislim da je u to vreme je bilo, da je on mislio

na Zagreb, zato što u početkom 80.

interesting. Zagreb and Beograd had very successful rock pop

bands, which were very popular in the whole Yugoslavia.

I think he had a connection with that.

Maybe we can find it on Wikipedia or something like that.

That's why he's important.

his songs shared the culture and the atmosphere of that time he really

time to his songs so I really like it Thank you very much Ivana

That's it for today Thank you It was really great

for me

We'll see you Bye vidimo se ciao