Kad bi bio bijelo dugme (trans. If I Were a White Button) is the 1974 debut studio album from influential former Yugoslav

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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 rock band

Rock Band

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 Bijelo dugme

Bijelo dugme

Bijelo dugme was a highly influential former Yugoslav rock band, based in Sarajevo. Active between 1974 and 1989, it is widely considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav rock...

. Together with their second album, Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu

Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu

Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu is the second studio album from influential former Yugoslav rock band Bijelo dugme, released in 1975. The album is a continuation of the band's early folkish hard rock sound that was featured on their debut album Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme, again incorporating folk...

, Kad bi bio bijelo dugme is considered the most Heavy metal

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-oriented album of their 16 year career. At the time the band was strongly influenced by the heavy metal pioneers such as Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

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 and Deep Purple

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, together with blues

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Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 and traditional Balkan music, a combination that would be further explored by band leader, chef lyricist and composer Goran Bregović

Goran Bregovic

Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...

 in latter years.

The band's name originated from the title track "Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme" (translation: "If I were a white button") as the band released it as a single while still performing under the name Jutro

Jutro

Jutro was a Sarajevo-based rock band most notable as the immediate predecessor to Bijelo dugme. It existed from late 1971 to the very end of 1973 when it transformed into probably the most popular rock band to come out of former Yugoslavia – Bijelo dugme.Jutro was formed on the initiative by Ismet...

. The front album cover was done by an old high school friend of Bregovic, Dragan S.Stefanovic. However, Stefanovic has never revealed the identity of the blond model.

Track listing

All the songs were written by Bregović unless otherwise noted.

1. "Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme" (If I were a white button) – 10:23
2. "Blues za moju bivšu dragu" (Blues for my former dear) – 6:23
3. "Ne spavaj mala moja muzika dok svira" (Don't sleep, my baby, while the music is playing) – 2:30
4. "Sve ću da ti dam samo da zaigram" (I'll give you everything just to dance) – 4:04
5. "Selma
   Selma (Bijelo Dugme song)
   Selma is one of the most beautiful rock ballads ever recorded in former Yugoslavia by the influential Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme. This song appeared for the first time on their 1974 debut album Kad bi bio bijelo dugme.-Background:...
   
   " (Bregović/Vlado Dijak
   Vlado Dijak
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   ) - 6:09
6. "Patim evo deset dana" (Here, I'm blue for ten days) – 4:51

Personnel

• Goran Bregović
  Goran Bregovic
  Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
  
   - guitar, harmonica
• Željko Bebek
  Željko Bebek
  Želimir "Željko" Bebek is a popular Bosnian Croat singer most notable for being the lead vocalist of Bijelo dugme from 1974 to 1984....
  
   - vocals
• Zoran Redžić
  Zoran Redžic
  Zoran Redžić is a Bosnian musician, best known for playing the bass guitar in the popular Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme....
  
   - bass guitar
• Ipe Ivandić
  Ipe Ivandic
  Goran "Ipe" Ivandić was a former Yugoslav rock drummer, famous for his work with the band Bijelo Dugme.-Early years:...
  
   - drums
• Vlado Pravdić
  Vlado Pravdic
  Vlado Pravdić is a Bosnian musician most famous as the organist of the Yugoslav rock group Bijelo dugme from 1974 to 1976 and again from 1978 to 1987....
  
  - Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, electric piano, piano