Sanremo Music Festival 1967

Sanremo Music Festival 1967
Dates
Semi-final 1	26 January 1967
Semi-final 2	27 January 1967
Final	28 January 1967
Host
Venue	Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)	Mike Bongiorno and Renata Mauro
Artistic director	Gianni Ravera
Host broadcaster	Programma Nazionale
Website	www.raiplay.it/programmi/sanremoinedito1967
Vote
Number of entries	30
Winner	Iva Zanicchi and Claudio Villa "Non pensare a me"

The scenography of Sanremo 1967, with Peppino di Capri performing.

Luigi Tenco committed suicide on 27 January, offended by the preference for "commercial music".

Iva Zanicchi and Claudio Villa upon winning the 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 and presented by Mike Bongiorno and Renata Mauro. According to the rules of this edition, every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups. The winners of the festival were Iva Zanicchi and Claudio Villa with the song "Non pensare a me". Villa was thus selected to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, with "Non andare più lontano".

Following the festival, the biggest success and most popular song was "Cuore matto" by Little Tony, which sold 6 million copies and was the no.1 hit for nine consecutive weeks in the Italian hit parade. During the festival, following the elimination of his song performed with his partner Dalida, singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco committed suicide.

Shortly after the contest ended, the original tape of the contest was lost. Only four decades later a copy was recovered and restored by Italian broadcaster RAI.

Participants and results

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