Jutro
| Jutro | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Genres | Schlager pop, Pop-Rock |
| Years active | 1971–1973 |
| Labels | Radio Kruševac |
| Associated acts | Bijelo Dugme, Ambasadori, Pro arte, Indexi |
| Past members |
Nuno Arnautalić Goran Bregović Željko Bebek Zlatko Hodnik Zoran Redžić Gordan Matrak Perica Stojanović Šento Borovčanin Vlado Pravdić Ipe Ivandić Ivica Vinković Jadranko Stanković |
Jutro (trans. "Morning") 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 "Nuno" Arnautalić (formerly of Eho 61 and Indexi) who came to Goran Bregović in fall 1971 with an offer of putting together a new band. Twenty-one-year-old Bregović, recently back in town after gigging across Italy for a year as part of an act called Kodeksi that eventually transformed into Mića, Goran i Zoran before folding.
By January 1972, Bregović already had a few of his own songs along with a vision for a band that was still missing a singer. He soon turned to old friend Željko Bebek, whom he hadn't spoken to in more than a year since their acrimonious split in Italy during fall 1970. Bebek was about to leave for the mandatory army stint, but accepted the offer and recorded a couple of early versions of "Patim, evo, deset dana", before going away to serve in Pirot on February 23, 1972.
Bregović and Arnautalić were thus without a singer again. Around the same time, the duo started butting heads over the band's future direction: Arnautalić wanted them to go the route of competitive pop schlager festivals in order to get noticed, whereas Bregović thought live club shows were the way to go about building an audience. After much wrangling they agreed on Zlatko Hodnik as the new temporary singer. Hodnik, the winner of the Zlatni aplauz festival for singing hopefuls, was a typical festival singer, all of which Bregović detested, but Arnautalić prevailed on this issue. In turn, Bregović got to pick the rhythm section, bringing in his old buddy from Kodeksi and Italian days Zoran Redžić on bass as well as drummer Gordan Matrak (a fellow student at Sarajevo University's Faculty of Philosophy which Bregović attended at the time).
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