april 1962.

I remembered this when I heard Safet Isović's rendition of "Kafu mi, draga, ispeci", and how that song was popular at the time. Even Rocco Granata sang it. He learned enough Serbian to sing it, although it was "da zednem" instead of "da sednem", but that was actually cute.

And then, well, I better write about it. What's amazing is the location - it was the movie hall of kombinat's culture center and whatnot (which includes the kantina - left side exit from the theatre leads through the yard where the tables were in the summer). This was probably the first time that I saw a foreigner and knew it. And learned the concept of a foreign language, live, by observation.

It was a full concert. I remember the audience reacted very well to "Marina", but "Kafu mi, draga, ispeci" was the real hit of the evening.

(Date is unknown, not even the month is certain. The Gugao doesn't know when Rocco Granata was doing a Yugoslav tour. I know the weather was fair and it was green outside - could have been june as well. I asked on burundi and someone's dad, from Šabac, puts this in 1960-61)

(nope, it's june 1962, googled it better with mandatory terms and found... a picture from Ilustrovana, as an attachment to a historical article of some Italian girl, with a date of 23-6-1962 on it, which means the event was several days before)


Mentions: burundi, Gugao, Kantina, kombinat, in serbian

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