“Danas Majko ženiš sina” (1972) – Slavko Petrović * Written by Aleksandar Nikolić (lyrics) and Budimer Jovanović (music) * EP: Danas Majko ženiš sina * Label: PGP RTB
Not to be confused with the previous entry’s subject (Slavko Perović), whose surname lacks a T. Although the title song on Slavko Petrović’s debut EP is a known Montenegrin folk song (title translation: “Mother, today you’re marrying off your son”), a co-credit for authorship is given to Budimir Jovanović, the record’s Serbian accordionist and ensemble leader. This is a genre the Serbs call “national” music, which correlates with American country music in that it changes very little conceptually across the decades, save for some technological giveaways. Although Petrovic’s early seventies-to-early eighties recordings float around online, substantial info about him certainly does not.