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"Slovenian songs by Ljupka and Ivica."
The fact that "Ljupka" and "Ivica" are distinctly non-Slovenian-sounding names gives this one its special touch.
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Nice find, Nik!If I ever had to change the name of this site, I would change it to "Hej, daj mi jabuku." What a kick-ass song title.
by Michael M. on October 27, 2005 at 6:46 pmI’d love to see the lyrics of Hej, daj mi jabuku! Looks like Ljupka
and Ivica are dead serious about keeping the doctor at bay…
by Poulette on October 27, 2005 at 11:02 pmGoodness. This is scary. :|And yeah it does look likt it’s been (badly) photoshoped. Like one of those fake celebrity porn-pose jobs. Quite odd actually. One would think it’d be easier just convincing them to actually wear traditional slovenian clothing and make a few pics. Apparently there are some things a croatian just WON’T do. :P"Hej Daj Mi Jabuku" (Mwahahahaha… I can’t say that with a straigth face. Seriously. :p), is a perfect example why it’s for the best that most world famous tunes are written and sung in english… Imagine this scenario: a contest for the world’s most infectious tune: a dead tie between Bohemian Rhapsody, Yesterday, Sweet Child Of Mine and… Hej Daj Mi Jabuku? o_O … ouch. Hurts. Yeah… the world makes sense. 
by freddie on October 27, 2005 at 11:39 pmMan, you should really post soundclips along with these covers.
by Kninja Survive on October 28, 2005 at 1:43 amOd kako traje svijet, u kraju mom
obiÄ?aj je star.
Jabuku djevojci da mladić njen
donese na dar.
I ako joj je drag osmjeh tvoj
djevojka će ta
Veselo primit dar i k njemu prić
da ruku mu da.
Hej daj mi jabuku što sad je skrivaš tu
Ta želja dugo već u tvom oku sjaHej daj mi jabuku, rumenu jabuku
da je zagrizem i tvoja bit ću ja.
by Dejan on October 28, 2005 at 3:10 amActually Mexicans can do really well at C&W! A lot better
than Gringos do Mexican music! btw people from the Balkans are NOT
Gringos which is why they do so well with Mexican music. To the
topic, the woman looks sort of Ukrainian and yes it’s true about that
Slavic Sashay. I inflicted it pretty regularly on my kids and guess
what? My little grand daughter does it! It’s funny! she does it when
her little brother pisses her off and she’s only FOUR. My mom did it
before going into her ‘cleaning mode’ to draft the rest of the
unwilling family to do a subotnik and get the house to look like normal
people might live there.The guy is very good looking, and yes now that you mention it I’d love sound clips to some of this music.
by Katja on October 29, 2005 at 10:30 amAs Catherine said, the woman is Ljupka Dimitrovska, who used to be one of the most popular schlager singers in Macedonia before she married with a Croatian composer (or something) and moved to Croatia.
by Petar on November 6, 2005 at 6:15 pmIVICA SERFEZI and LJUPKA DIMITROVSKA sang a GREATselection of MELODIOUS SCHLAGER BALLADS that areABSOLUTE WORKS OF ART !!!! Who needs GARBAGE SEWAGE Rock/rap/metal/hip hop/punk/jazz when you have such BEAUTIFULWORLD SINGERS as Ljupka and Ivica ??? BOTH MAGNIFICENT………….Rex Gildo
by Rex Gildo on November 23, 2005 at 1:02 amComments for this post are closed.
They’re not just non-slovene names, but they’re not slovenes.
They’re both Croatians I think
Not sure about "Ljupka", but "Ivica" is definitely a Croatian name. "Ljupka" does have the traditional Slavic woman pose going in that photo. Arms at 90 degrees, hands on hips. She could go one of many different ways, including:
1) Swish side to side in the traditional seductive Slavic sashay..2)
Lean forward in that "I’m not believing a word you’re saying and you
better come up with a better story than that to come into my house after you’ve been galavanting all night long." 3) Block a) the doorway b) your path c) the street d) your life while explaining to you how if you had listened to her instead of thinking for yourself you wouldn’t be: A) in the mess you are in. B) Married to (insert trollop’s name here). C) penniless and destitute. D) in the profession you’re in that is sucking the very marrow out of your soul.The
older a Slavic woman becomes, the more that pose offers. Even my
baka was doing that salacious sashay in her 80’s. And who was I
to point that out?
Sticking my nose out here, but I *think* those are Ljupka Dimitrovska (Croatian singer in the 70s and 80s, Macedonian origin) and Ivica Å erfezi (Croatian, played in the USSR and GDR in the 60s).These people spend too long in my head…
Whoa, Catherine, that’s impressive.But more importantly -
what were these two thinking??? This record must have flopped so
badly… I mean Croatians singing Slovenian songs is roughly equivalent
to Mexicans singing Country music. Similar crowd there…
I am not sure this is original cover - looks more like some Photoshop work.
It think you are rght, Nik. Ivica and Ljubka weren’t folk singers.
It’s definitely not a photoshop, even though it may look slightly odd. I held the actual record in my own hands. And the picture above is my own. It’s legit.
It seems you are right. This must really be odd-sounding… Although
).
by Nik on October 27, 2005 at 6:38 pm
those faces still look like photoshop (or some primitive version of -
scissors
I have read in Yu-mythology lexicon that Ljupka had 3 among best
50 pop songs of previous century according to some English magazine…