Sanremo Music Festival 1967
17th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival 1967 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1967), officially the 17th Italian Song Festival (17º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 17th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 26 and 28 January 1967. It was organised by Società ATA, concessionary of the Sanremo Casino and was broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The shows were presented by Mike Bongiorno and Renata Mauro. Gianni Ravera served as artistic director.
Each song was performed twice, by both Italian and foreign artists. The winning song was "Non pensare a me" written by Alberto Testa and Eros Sciorilli, and performed by both Iva Zanicchi and Claudio Villa. Initially the song was meant to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 with Villa as the selected performer, but due to a new rule introduced by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) requiring competing songs to not be commercially released a month before the contest, it was disqualified. Villa instead went on to compete in the contest with "Non andare più lontano".
The edition was characterised by the death of singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco while the festival was taking place, less than a day after his song "Ciao amore, ciao" failed to qualify for the final of the competition.
In January 2017, RAI announced they had discovered a 30-minute tape of the festival's final, edited down from the original broadcast, from a collector in Malta.
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