Sanremo Festival 1967

Sanremo Festival 1967
output	17th
date	26.-28. January
place	Casinò Municipale in Sanremo
Charisma	Programma Nazionale (TV), Secondo programma (radio)
Moderation	Mike Bongiorno , Renata Mauro
Attendees	59 (with 30 songs)
winner	Iva Zanicchi / Claudio Villa  - Non pensare a me
◄ Sanremo 1966 • Sanremo 1968 ►

The 17th edition of the festival Italian Song Sanremo found in 1967 from 26 to 28 January at the Municipal Casino in Sanremo and was hosted by Mike Bongiorno and Renata Mauro moderated.

procedure

General

The municipal casino, venue of the Sanremo Festival

In 1967 the record of 58 participants was set, which was never again reached. They interpreted 30 songs, with only the international guests Gene Pitney , The Bachelors and Cher (once as part of Sonny and Cher ) participating in two songs each. As in the previous year, a jury vote made 14 songs the final. For the fifth time in a row, Mike Bongiorno moderated the event, this time together with the young Renata Mauro, who was discovered at the Festival di Napoli in 1966. 25 conductors were responsible for the orchestra, the overall direction of the festival was still the responsibility of Gianni Ravera . For reasons of space, the performances were distributed: solo performers performed as usual in the Salone delle Fest , participating groups found their stage in the Teatro dell'Opera, which is also located in the casino .

There were a lot of “festival veterans” among the participants, such as Claudio Villa , Iva Zanicchi , Domenico Modugno , Bobby Solo , Ornella Vanoni , Johnny Dorelli , Milva , Betty Curtis , Pino Donaggio , Little Tony and Giorgio Gaber . On the wave of success of Nessuno mi può giudicare , last year's “moral winner”, Caterina Caselli also returned to the festival. Mino Reitano (with a song written by Lucio Battisti and Mogol ), Peppino di Capri , Memo Remigi and the group I Giganti made their debut .

In the final, Claudio Villa and Iva Zanicchi 's Non pensare a me, inspired by Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night , prevailed among the juries . Villa was able to catch up with Domenico Modugno with this fourth win, and to date no artist has achieved more than four victories.

The “trauma” of Luigi Tenco

The 1967 Sanremo Festival was overshadowed by a tragic event that, as a cultural trauma, was to influence all of Italian pop music: the suicide of Luigi Tenco . The 29-year-old Cantautore from the Genoese school took part in the competition for the first time after an eight-year career. His song Ciao amore ciao , which addressed the Italian emigration and was sung in the second version by Dalida , was presented on the first evening and did not qualify for the final. The additional jury that was able to bring a song that had already been eliminated back into the competition decided on La rivoluzione . That night, Tenco was found dead in his hotel room, apparently killed by a shot in the head. Last but not least, the suicide note made it clear that it was suicide :

“I loved the Italian audience and senselessly sacrificed five years of my life to them. I don't do this because I'm tired of life (on the contrary), but as an act of protest against an audience that chooses Io tu e le rose for the finals and because of a jury that chooses La rivoluzione . I hope this clears up someone. "

Despite the incident, the two remaining evenings of the festival went on schedule. The press reported widely about Tenco's death and much speculation about the exact circumstances of his death made the rounds, but his funeral was barely noticed by the public or by his music colleagues. Ugo Zatterin, chairman of the return jury, pushed the matter out of the festival context and declared Tenco to be a mentally disturbed, weak personality. This view was also evident in the parliamentary questions raised by the Democrazia Cristiana, which addressed the event . But in less conservative circles, suicide was soon seen as a social indictment and Tenco as a warning harbinger. The Cantautore was now considered to be the embodiment of a generation that threatened to lose touch with reality. Above all, however, he was seen as a victim of the market and the entertainment industry. Many young people elevated Luigi Tenco to a cultural icon and at the same time vehemently rejected the Sanremo Festival. In 1972, the Club Tenco was established in Sanremo (lender of Tenco Prize and Targa Tenco ), which in future campaigned for the promotion of music outside the mainstream.

Candidates

placement	Interpreter	song	Authors
1	Iva Zanicchi / Claudio Villa	Non pensare a me	Alberto Testa, Eros Sciorilli
2	Annarita Spinaci / Les Surfs	Quando dico che ti amo	Alberto Testa, Tony Renis
3	I Giganti / The Bachelors	Proposta	Albula, Giordano Bruno Martelli
4th	Ornella Vanoni / Mario Guarnera	La musica è finita	Nisa , Franco Califano , Umberto Bindi
5	Orietta Berti / Les Compagnons de la Chanson	Io, tu e le rose	Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Mario Giacomo Gili, Luigi Barazzetti
6th	Lucio Dalla / The Rokes	Bisogna saper perdere	Giuseppe Cassia, Ruggero Cini
7th	Memo Remigi / Sergio Endrigo	Dove credi di andare	Sergio Endrigo
8th	Gian Pieretti / Antoine	Pietre	Gian Pieretti, Ricky Gianco
9	Don Backy / Johnny Dorelli	L'immensità	Don Backy, Mogol , Detto Mariano
10	Little Tony / Mario Zelinotti	Cuore matto	Armando Ambrosino, Totò Savio
11	Carmen Villani / Pino Donaggio	Io per amore	Pino Donaggio, Gino Paoli , Vito Pallavicini
12	Wilma Goich / The Bachelors	Per vedere quanto grande è il mondo	Mogol, Carlo Donida
13	Giorgio Gaber / Remo Germani	… E allora dai!	Giorgio Gaber
14th	Gianni Pettenati / Gene Pitney	La rivoluzione	Mogol, Roberto Soffici
	Caterina Caselli / Sonny & Cher	The cammino di ogni speranza	Umberto Napolitano
	Bobby Solo / Connie Francis	Canta ragazzina	Prog, Iller Pattacini, Carlo Donida
	Riki Maiocchi / Marianne Faithfull	C'è chi spera	Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Gene Colonnello
	Luigi Tenco / Dalida	Ciao amore ciao	Luigi Tenco
	Peppino di Capri / Dionne Warwick	Dedicato all'amore	Alberto Testa, Daniele Pace, Flavio Carraresi
	Carmelo Pagano / Roberta Amadei	Devi aver fiducia in me	Francesco Specchia, Renato Martini
	Betty Curtis / Tony Del Monaco	È più forte di me	Tony Del Monaco, Enrico Polito
	Fred Bongusto / Anna German	Gi	Vito Pallavicini, Antonio Amurri , Fred Bongusto
	Nicola Di Bari / Gene Pitney	Guardati all spalle	Luciano Beretta , Daniele Pace
	Nico Fidenco / Cher	Ma piano (per non svegliarti)	Gianni Meccia
	Edoardo Vianello / Jimmy Fontana	Nasce una vita	Sergio Bardotti, Jimmy Fontana
	Mino Reitano / The Hollies	Non prego per me	Mogol, Lucio Battisti
	Los Marcellos Ferial / The Happenings	Quando vedrò	Marisa Terzi, Carlo Alberto Rossi
	Donatella Moretti / Bobby Goldsboro	Una ragazza	Vito Pallavicini, Bruno Pallesi, Walter Malgoni
	Domenico Modugno / Gidiuli	Sopra i tetti azzurri del mio pazzo amore	Vito Pallavicini, Domenico Modugno
	Milva / Los Bravos	Uno come noi	Umberto Martucci, Giorgio Bertero, Marino Marini

successes

Eleven of the 14 final entries subsequently reached the top 15 of the Italian single charts, three of them in both versions. Of the songs that were eliminated, only Luigi Tenco's Ciao amore Ciao could - understandably - reach the charts.

The most successful that year was Little Tony with Cuore matto , although he had only reached tenth place in the competition. Even L'immensità Don Backy and Johnny Dorelli and La proposta of the Giants' became hits. The winning song, however, was not very successful. Claudio Villa was then sent again to the Eurovision Song Contest , but there he entered the race with the song Non andare più lontano .

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1967	Cuore matto	IT1 (20 weeks) IT	Version of Little Tony # 10
	La proposta	IT1 (14 weeks) IT	Version of I Giganti 3rd place
	L'immensità	IT2 (21 weeks) IT	Version of Johnny Dorelli number 9
	Pietre	IT2 (17 weeks) IT	Version of Antoine place 8
	Io tu e le rose	IT3 (14 weeks) IT	Version by Orietta Berti 5th place
1967	Bisogna saper perdere	IT4 (11 weeks) IT	Version of The Rokes # 6
	L'immensità	IT5 (8 weeks) IT	Version of Don Backy place 9
	Ciao amore ciao	IT6 (10 weeks) IT	Version by Luigi Tenco
	Non pensare a me	IT7 (5 weeks) IT	Version of Claudio Villa 1st place
	La rivoluzione	IT8 (5 weeks) IT	Version of Gene Pitney # 14
1967	Quando dico che ti amo	IT9 (5 weeks) IT	Version by Annarita Spinaci 2nd place
	La rivoluzione	IT14 (2 weeks) IT	Version by Gianni Pettenati place 14
	La musica è finita	IT15 (2 weeks) IT	Version by Ornella Vanoni 4th place
	Non pensare a me	IT15 (1 week) IT	Version by Iva Zanicchi 1st place
	… E allora dai!	IT15 (1 week) IT	Version by Giorgio Gaber Platz 13

Web links

• Festival di Sanremo 1967 on Sorrisi.com (Italian)
• Sanremo 1967 on HitParadeItalia (Italian)

supporting documents

1. ^ Marco Santoro: The Tenco effect. Suicide, San Remo, and the social construction of the canzone d'autore . In: Journal of Modern Italian Studies . tape 11 , no. 3 , 2006, p. 342-366 , doi : 10.1080 / 13545710600806862 .
2. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on June 27, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access).