He composed several hundred songs, and many of them remain popular standards to this day, although Nedović's authorship is not universally known.
[2] As the family was poor, Nedović left his home in 1932 as a 16-year-old and worked as a traveling musician across Serbia, Bosnia, and Dalmatia.
[2] During the German occupation of Serbia in World War II, Nedović was arrested along with many citizens in the Kragujevac massacre on 21 October 1941.
However, he was spared as a famous writer and deported into the Dormagen detention camp in Germany, where he would spend the rest of the war.
As an homage to the disease, he wrote the song Pluća su mi bolna, zdravlja više nemam ('My Lungs Hurt, My Health Has Gone'), performed by Zaim Imamović.