Sanremo Festival 1969

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Sanremo Festival 1969
output 19th
date January 30th - February 1st
place Casinò Municipale in Sanremo
Charisma Programma Nazionale (TV), Secondo programma (radio)
Moderation Nuccio Costa , Gabriella Farinon
Attendees 48 (with 24 songs)
winner Iva Zanicchi / Bobby Solo  - Zingara
◄ Sanremo 1968Sanremo 1970 ►

The 19th edition of the Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo took place from January 30th to February 1st in the municipal casino in Sanremo in 1969 and was moderated by Nuccio Costa and Gabriella Farinon .

procedure

The municipal casino, venue of the Sanremo Festival

In 1969 Ezio Radaelli took over the overall management of the event again, after seven years under the direction of Gianni Ravera . The moderator duo was also new. A commission under Radaelli selected 24 competition entries in advance. The rules stipulated that on the first two evenings seven out of twelve songs reached the final on the third evening. As usual, each song was presented in two versions by two interpreters.

This year, the organizers (as part of the 1968 movement ) were uncomfortable with the announcement by Dario Fo and Franca Rame that they would organize a “counter-festival” with their theater group in the Villa Ormond in Sanremo. They received support from the Partito Comunista Italiano , the declared aim of the event was to reawaken “workers' consciousness” and to distract from the “bourgeois” Sanremo Festival. Although the municipality authorized the alternative festival, but at the same time it increased massively the police - Carabinieri - and military presence in the city, leading to the jocular designation Festival con l'elmetto ( "Festival with helmet led"). The RAI was beyond fear of disturbances of the planned festival run, the competition evenings always been the morning playback record.

Radaelli had announced a rejuvenated festival, but the field of participants again consisted to a large extent of familiar faces. Lucio Battisti , on the other hand, was new , after having played several times as a songwriter, he sang Un'avventura with Wilson Pickett . The youngest and most inexperienced participants were Rosanna Fratello (replacing Anna Identici , who tried suicide shortly before the festival ) and Nada . The already well known Rita Pavone also took part in the festival for the first time. The 18-year-old Stevie Wonder stood out among the international participants .

Despite all the fears of the organizers, the festival was able to take place undisturbed. The big favorite was the song Zingara in the interpretations of Iva Zanicchi and Bobby Solo , which was originally intended for Gianni Morandi , but who was not interested in participating in Sanremo. For this Morandi advertised openly for the song in advance at appearances. The juries finally confirmed the favorite (while they did not allow the likewise favored Claudio Villa and Mino Reitano for the final).

Candidates

placement Interpreter song Authors
1 Iva Zanicchi / Bobby Solo Zingara Luigi Albertelli, Enrico Riccardi
2 Sergio Endrigo / Mary Hopkin Lontano dagli tatting Sergio Bardotti, Sergio Endrigo, Luis Bacalov
3 Don Backy / Milva Un sorriso Aldo Caponi , Detto Mariano
4th Fausto Leali / Tony Del Monaco Un'ora fa Luciano Beretta , Ermanno Parazzini, Gianfranco Intra
5 Nada / The Rokes Ma che freddo fa Franco Migliacci , Claudio Mattone
6th Gigliola Cinquetti / France Gall La pioggia Daniele Pace, Gianni Argenio, Corrado Conti, Mario Panzeri
7th Mal / The Showmen Do be bella come be Giuseppe Cassia, Sergio Bardotti, Marcello Marrocchi, Mario Vicari
8th Caterina Caselli / Johnny Dorelli Il gioco dell'amore Franco Migliacci, Ivo Callegari
9 Lucio Battisti / Wilson Pickett Un'avventura Mogol , Lucio Battisti
10 Massimo Ranieri / Orietta Berti Quando l'amore diventa poesia Mogol, Piero Soffici
11 Alessandra Casaccia / Carmen Villani Piccola piccola Vincenzo Buonassisi, Giorgio Bertero, Marino Marini , Aldo Valleroni
12 Little Tony / Mario Zelinotti Bada bambina Franco Migliacci, Bruno Zambrini
13 Dik Dik / Rita Pavone Zucchero Mogol, Luigi Clausetti, Roberto Soffici, Piero Soffici, Roberto Guscelli
14th Riccardo Del Turco / Antoine Cosa hai messo nel caffè Giancarlo Bigazzi , Riccardo Del Turco
Junior Magli / The Casuals Alla fine della strada Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Lorenzo Pilat
Wilma Goich / The Sweet Inspirations Baci baci baci Sergio Bardotti, Franco Bracardi
Robertino / Rocky Roberts Le belle donne Vito Pallavicini , Giorgio Conte , Michele Virano
Isabella Iannetti / Memo Remigi Una famiglia Alberto Testa, Memo Remigi
Leonardo / New Trolls Io che ho te Giorgio D'Adamo, Vittorio De Scalzi, Nico Di Palo
Claudio Villa / Mino Reitano Meglio una sera (piangere da solo) Nicola Salerno , Alberto Salerno, Franco Reitano , Mino Reitano
Armando Savini / Sonia Non c'è che lei / Non c'è che lui Marisa Terzi, Carlo Alberto Rossi
Gabriella Ferri / Stevie Wonder Se tu ragazzo mio / Se tu ragazza mia Vittorio Ferri, Gabriella Ferri, Piero Pintucci
Checco / Elio Gandolfi The sole è tramontato Riccardo Pradella, Checco Marsella, Rosa Nisi, Giuseppe Moschini
Rosanna Fratello / Brenton Wood Il treno Vito Pallavicini, Elio Isola

successes

13 of the final entries then reached the top 20 of the Italian single charts, three of them in both versions. Meglio una sera (piangere da solo) by Mino Reitano reached the charts despite being eliminated in the semi-finals. Next to the winning song, Ma che freddo fa by Nada and La pioggia by Gigliola Cinquetti were the most successful .

The winner Iva Zanicchi then represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid in 1969 , but only achieved 13th place out of 16 with the new song Due grand lacrime bianche .

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
IT IT
1969 Ma che freddo fa IT1 (16 weeks)
IT
Version of Nada
5th place
Zingara IT1 (13 weeks)
IT
Version by Bobby Solo
1st place
La pioggia IT2 (15 weeks)
IT
Version by Gigliola Cinquetti
6th place
Bada bambina IT3 (13 weeks)
IT
Version of Little Tony
# 12
Do be bella come be IT4 (13 weeks)
IT
Version of times
place 7
Zingara IT5 (11 weeks)
IT
Version by Iva Zanicchi
1st place
1969 Un'ora fa IT6 (13 weeks)
IT
Version by Fausto Leali
4th place
Un sorriso IT7 (12 weeks)
IT
Version by Don Backy
3rd place
Zucchero IT11 (7 weeks)
IT
Version of Rita Pavone
place 13
Cosa hai messo nel caffè IT12 (5 weeks)
IT
Version by Antoine
seat 14
La pioggia IT13 (4 weeks)
IT
Version of France Gall
6th place
1969 Un'avventura IT15 (8 weeks)
IT
Version by Lucio Battisti
9th place
Il gioco dell'amore IT15 (5 weeks)
IT
Version by Caterina Caselli
8th place
Lontano dagli tatting IT16 (3 weeks)
IT
Version of Mary Hopkin
Square 2
Lontano dagli tatting IT18 (2 weeks)
IT
Version by Sergio Endrigo
2nd place
Piccola piccola IT18 (1 week)
IT
Version by Carmen Villani
11th place
Meglio una sera (piangere da solo) IT19 (1 week)
IT
Version by Mino Reitano

Web links

supporting documents

  1. M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on June 27, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access).