Daniela songs (20 tracks): HTML5 | Flash
A little while ago, I came across the excellent Jugobeat site, filled with bios, pics and discographies of artists from the little-known 60s beat scene of former Yugoslavia, and became fixated with finding music by the only solo female act listed, Daniela. The site is run by Vanya, of No Brains Zine & Records, who was kind enough to rip some Daniela vinyl for me. Vanya was also responsible for a small run of 2 volumes of a great comp called Jugobeat Explosion a few years ago.
Meanwhile, I passed the Daniela obsession on to Lush from Dans Mon Café, who found some tracks posted at Garage Hangover. Some background on Daniela from GH:
Daniela's real name was Danica Milatovic. She was born in Munich, Germany on December 13th, 1949, and her parents had come from Yugoslavia some years before. In 1960 she recorded her first 45. Between 1965 and 1973 there were 12 more 45s and two LPs with German songs. Her biggest hit was "Im Jahre 2002" ("In the Year 2002").
I haven't heard her most well-known song, but my guess is it's a cover of 'In The Year 2525'. Amusingly, various foreign language covers all set the date of doom in different years, depending what best fits the tongue it's sung in: 2005, 2003, 2023. [*Edit- I guessed wrong: here's a link I found to a stream of the track: 'Im Jahre 2002 ' (watch out for pop-up ads). Youtube.]
I'm posting all 20 tracks I have by her, which include recordings sung in English, Serbo-Croatian, German and French. The best is her garagey stuff, but I think these are all worth hearing. For those whose connections don't let them get large files, the tracks Garage Hangover posted are still up. You'll find a couple of her German songs and one Yugoslavian EP, featuring her appealing garage cover of 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin''.
GH tells us the 'Boots' EP, one of just two she released in Yugoslavia, was recorded...
...with the band Plamenih Pet (The Flaming Five) around 1967. This low-fi EP has competent covers of I Got You Babe and These Boots Are Made for Walking sung in English. The real gems are on the b-side, Dan Je Divan Dan (on web translators the title comes up as "Presently Had Wondrous Light"!), written by G. Aber and V. Olear, and Ja Nekog Želim ("I Someone Desires"), written by V. Olear and Daniela herself.
I'd personally say a little more than competent, especially 'Boots' which Vanya describes as "more garage than all "Girls in the Garage" volumes." But I can't disagree that the B-side tracks are killer.
Some of my favourites: Hippy Hippy Shake, Detroit City, Dreaming Room, Er ließ mich allein.
In 1969, Daniela competed in the German song contest, Deutscher Schlager-Wettbewerb. That year, France Gall came third with 'Ein bißchen Goethe, ein bißchen Bonaparte'. Though Daniela's song 'Warum denn gleich auf's Ganze gehn' is pretty run-of-the-mill schlager, she's still quite a charismatic performer. She certainly didn't deserve last place, considering the many ultra-cheesy, irredeemably awful entries!
From Jugobeat:
Sanjalice (Dreamers) were one of, probably not many, girl bands in Yugoslavia. Actually I've heard about only 2 more: Lutke and Sigele. And Sanjalice are probably the only girl band that released a record in Yugoslavia at that time. Unfortunately I don't know much about them. I know that Slobodanka Miscevic (guitar) was the best student in her class and Ljiljana Jeftic (bass) was only 15 years old. Ok their records are not that wild, but "Bez Reci" is one the best girl 60s punk songs I heard. I also love their version of "Happy Together". I heard they were really great band to see live and probably they were wilder than on their records."
Eurocovers blog posted Sanjalice (pronounced San-ya-litse) covers of Dusty Springfield and Sandie Shaw a few months ago here, and Dans Mon Café posted 'Bez Reci' and 'Srecni Zajedno' (Happy Together) here (all links seem to still be up).
More info on the girls, from Eurocovers:
Ljiljana Mandic, Slobodanka Miscevic, Ljiljana Jeftic and Snezana Veselinovic played their own instruments and had a relatively short career, but I don't know if there is a relation[ship] between these two facts. They recorded mostly coverversions of Italian and English language hits including Those were the days (Mary Hopkin), Happy together(Turtles) and the fabulous 1965 San Remo song Io che non vivo senza te (You don't have to say you love me, the Dusty Springfield classic). Their Puppet On A String is sung in Serbo-Croat (that's what it was called in the Yugoslavia era).
The only other female recording artist on Jugobeat is Ivanka Pavlovic, who accompanied garage band Iskre on one EP (left). I'd love to hear that... anyone?
Links: Daniela, Sanjalice, and Iskre @ Jugobeat, Daniela - German discography, No Brains Ebay store, Jugobeat Explosion Vol 1 and Vol 2 on the Searchin' For Shakes database, 'Le monde est gris' lyrics, Jugoton Records Wiki. And is this a picture of Sanjalice? (Via this forum).
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