The band gained popularity in the early 1970s with their acoustic rock sound, and their debut album, S Vremena Na Vreme (1975), was widely praised by the critics for its compositions, poetic lyrics and arrangements.
[1] At the time, Miomir Đukić wrote the ballad "Sunčana strana ulice" ("Sunny Side of the Street"), which achieved some local popularity.
Ninković came to Belgrade from Smederevo, previously performing in the bands Maskirani Anđeli (The Masked Angels), Pet Sounds and The Spooks (in latter he played the organ).
[1] During the initial period of their career, the band cooperated with various musicians: Đukić brothers' former bandmate Bane Zarin, drummer Nikola Jager, drummer Ratislav Đelmaš (of YU Grupa), keyboardist Sloba Marković, bass guitarist Dejan Petković, flutist Dragoslav "Džib" Vokić, and contrabassist Nebojša Ignjatović.
[1] During this period, the band members took part in the recording of the albums by Jadranka Stojaković, Vlada i Bajka, Srđan Marjanović and Tamara and Nenad Pavlović.
[3] The single was released by Radio Kruševac and got the atentnion of the audience and the media, so the band was offered a contract by the one of two biggest record labels in Yugoslavia, Zagreb-based Jugoton.
[6] At the time, the band started appearing in Television Belgrade show Tip top kabare, based on the Radio Belgrade show of the same title, for which the members of the band had already recorded, TV appearances bringing nationwide popularity to their songs "Čudno drvo", "Odisej", "Jana" and "Đački rastanak" ("Students' Farewell"), the latter composed on the lyrics of the poem by Serbian Romantic poet Branko Radičević.
[3] In March 1979, S Vremena Na Vreme held a successful tour across Poland, on which they performed together with several amateur theatres from Belgrade.
[3] Ljuba Ninković started working in Radio Belgrade, and with Vlada Janković "Džet" (a former Crni Biseri member) he formed the band Tunel, with which he recorded five albums.
[3] At the beginning of the 1990s, Ninković, together with actor Milorad Mandić, worked on Radio Television of Belgrade children's show S one strane duge (Over the Rainbow).
[3] On Sarvan's idea, in May 1993 in Belgrade Youth Center, the most prominent musicians of Serbian 1960s and 1970s acoustic rock scene gathered to perform on a fund-raising concert.
[3] They held their comeback concert in Sava Centar on 5 November 1993, featuring keyboardist Saša Lokner (of Bajaga i Instruktori), bass guitarist Bata Božanić, drummer Ratko Ljubičić and percussionist Nenad Januzović performing with the band.
[3] The concert also featured guest appearance by singer Snežana Jandrlić, who performed the song "Prvi sneg" ("First Snow"), originally recorded by her former band Suncokret.
[3] The album featured Bata Božanić (on bass guitar), Saša Lokner (on keyboards), Čeda Macura (on drums), Pera "Joe" Miladinović (on harmonica), and Marija Mihajlović (on vocals in the song "Spavaj").
[3] During the same year, Ninković and Marija Mihajlović recorded the album Zvuk tišine (The Sound of Silence), which featured their versions of songs by Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and other artists.
[10] In 1999, One Records reissued the band's debut album with previously unreleased songs "Tema za violinu" ("Theme for Violin"), "Kad nestanem" ("When I'm Gone") and "Sumnja" ("Doubt") as bonus tracks.
[3] During 1999, Ninković and the Đukić brothers, with the actor Goran Sultanović, performed a cabaret show entitled Ja pevam svoj bluz (I'm Singing My Blues).
The performances were based on the poetry of Vladislav Petković Dis, Milan Rakić, Matija Bećković, Bora Đorđević, Đorđe Balašević and others.
[3] He wrote music for a number of plays, several TV shows and for the 2002 documentary film Beloglavi sup – čovekov prijatelj (Griffon Vulture – Man's Friend).
[13] In 2013, Ninković, Sarvan and the Đukić brothers reunited to celebrate 40 years since the release of their debut single, "Sunčana strana ulice", with a concert in Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade.
[3] In 1989, the song "Traži mene" was covered by Yugoslav singer-songwriter and former Azra leader Branimir "Johnny" Štulić on his album Balkanska rapsodija (Balkan Rhapsody).