Sanremo Festival 1958
| Sanremo Festival 1958 | |
|---|---|
| output | 8th |
| date | January 30th - February 1st |
| place | Casinò Municipale in Sanremo |
| Charisma | Programma Nazionale (TV), Secondo Programma (radio) |
| Moderation | Gianni Agus , Fulvia Colombo |
| Attendees | 15 (with 20 songs) |
| winner | Domenico Modugno / Johnny Dorelli - Nel blu dipinto di blu |
| ◄ Sanremo 1957 • Sanremo 1959 ► | |
The eighth edition of the Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo took place from January 30th to February 1st in the municipal casino in Sanremo in 1958 and was moderated by Gianni Agus and Fulvia Colombo .
Innovations and procedure
The biggest innovation in 1958 was that the RAI had withdrawn from organizing the event and it was now hosted directly by Azienda Turistico Alberghiera (ATA), the operating company of the casino. However, as usual, RAI broadcast the festival live on television and radio. The young actor Gianni Agus and the popular RAI presenter Fulvia Colombo took over the moderation. Otherwise, most of the rules and the participants stayed the same, the two conductors Cinico Angelini and Alberto Semprini were there again.
Nilla Pizzi , winner of the first two editions of the festival, returned as a participant, and Claudio Villa , also two-time winner , was represented with five songs. In addition to Pizzi and Villa, Aurelio Fierro , who had already gained popularity in the USA and now competed with a total of six songs, and the newcomer Johnny Dorelli were favorites. Domenico Modugno , who first took part in the festival as a songwriter in 1956, caused a sensation because this time he was the first participant to perform a song he had written himself.
The competition followed the usual scheme: On the first two evenings, half of the songs were presented in two versions, so that the jury vote finally qualified ten songs for the final evening. There the song Nel blu dipinto di blu in the interpretation of Modugno and Dorelli prevailed, while Nilla Pizzi took second and third place with more traditional songs.
Candidates
| placement | Performers | song | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Domenico Modugno / Johnny Dorelli | Nel blu dipinto di blu | Domenico Modugno, Franco Migliacci |
| 2 | Nilla Pizzi / Tonina Torrielli | L'edera | Vincenzo D'Acquisto, Saverio Seracini |
| 3 | Nilla Pizzi / Gino Latilla | Amare and altro | Riccardo Pazzaglia , Giorgio Fabor |
| 4 (ex aequo) | Claudio Villa / Giorgio Consolini | Campana di Santa Lucia | Bixio Cherubini, Carlo Concina |
| Claudio Villa / Nilla Pizzi | Giuro d'amarti so | Mario Panzeri, Vittorio Mascheroni | |
| 6th | Aurelio Fierro and Gloria Christian / Carla Boni and Gino Latilla | Timida serenata | Nicola Salerno , Gino Redi |
| 7th | Aurelio Fierro and Trio Joyce / Claudio Villa and Duo Fasano | Fragole e cappellini | Mario Panzeri, Saverio Seracini |
| 8th | Carla Boni and Gino Latilla / Natalino Otto | Not potrai dimenticare | Bruno Pallesi, Walter Malgoni |
| 9 | Cristina Jorio / Tonina Torrielli | Mill volte | Zibio, Fabor |
| 10 | Johnny Dorelli / Natalino Otto | Fantastica | Armando Costanzo, Coriolano Gori , Piero Bentivoglio |
| Carla Boni / Giorgio Consolini | Arsura | Bixio Cherubini, Vincenzo D'Acquisto, Mario Schisa | |
| Claudio Villa and Duo Fasano / Nilla Pizzi and Aurelio Fierro | La canzone che piace a te | Raffaele Cutolo, Marino De Paolis, Mario Ruccione | |
| Claudio Villa and Gino Latilla / Gloria Christian | Cos'è un bacio | Vincenzo Rovi, Giampiero Boneschi | |
| Giorgio Consolini / Marisa Del Frate | È molto facile dirsi addio | Luigi Martelli, Ennio Neri | |
| Gloria Christian / Marisa Del Frate | Ho disegnato un cuore | Silvana Simoni, Isabella Piga | |
| Carla Boni / Cristina Jorio | Io sono te | Alberto Testa, Raul De Giusti, Biri, Carlo Alberto Rossi | |
| Tonina Torrielli and Duo Fasano / Trio Joyce | Nozze d'oro | Franco Conti, Giorgio Cavalli, Enrico Canelli | |
| Giorgio Consolini / Johnny Dorelli | Se tornassi do | Ezio Radaelli, Carlo Vinci, Alberto Barberis | |
| Aurelio Fierro and Trio Joyce / Duo Fasano | I trulli di Alberobello | Giovanni Ciocca, Umberto Bindi | |
| Gino Latilla / Natalino Otto | Tu sei del mio paese | Alberto Testa, Raul De Giusti, Biri, Carlo Alberto Rossi |
successes
The 1958 festival caused record sales to boom: Modugno's musically innovative Nel blu dipinto di blu , mostly known as Volare , was a worldwide hit, reached third place at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 , and was able to make it to the top (as the only Italian song to date) one of the US charts and was awarded two Grammy Awards . In the wake of this undreamt-of success, other songs in this year's competition also sold better than any other Sanremo contribution before. Last but not least, Nilla Pizzi was also able to win the first edition of the RAI competition Canzonissima with the second-placed song L'edera . Overall, the interest of the public and the press increased enormously by 1958.
Web links
- Festival di Sanremo 1958 on Sorrisi.com (Italian)
- Sanremo 1958 on HitParadeItalia (Italian)