Sanremo Music Festival 1966

The Sanremo Music Festival 1966 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1966), officially the 16th Italian Song Festival (16º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 16th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 27 and 29 January 1966,^[1] and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was presented by Mike Bongiorno, assisted by Paola Penni e Carla Maria Puccini. Gianni Ravera served as artistic director.^[1]

Sanremo Music Festival 1966
Dates and venue
Semi-final 1	27 January 1966
Semi-final 2	28 January 1966
Final	29 January 1966
Venue	Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Italy
Organisation
Broadcaster	Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI)
Artistic director	Gianni Ravera
Presenters	Mike Bongiorno
Vote
Number of entries	26
Winner	Domenico Modugno and Gigliola Cinquetti "Dio, come ti amo"
1965 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 1967

According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups.^[1] The winners of the festival were Domenico Modugno and Gigliola Cinquetti with the song "Dio, come ti amo".^[1] Modugno went on to perform the song for Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966.

Participants and results

Domenico Modugno and Gigliola Cinquetti celebrating their victory

Participants and results[1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank
"Dio, come ti amo" – Domenico Modugno, Gigliola Cinquetti (Domenico Modugno)	1
"Nessuno mi può giudicare" – Caterina Caselli, Gene Pitney (Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Luciano Beretta, Miki Del Prete)	2
"In un fiore" – Wilma Goich, Les Surfs (Carlo Donida, Mogol)	3
"Una casa in cima al mondo" – Pino Donaggio, Claudio Villa (Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini)	4
"Una rosa da Vienna " - Anna Identici, The New Christy Minstrels (Gianluigi Guarnieri, Bruno Lauzi)	5
"Io ti darò di più" - Orietta Berti, Ornella Vanoni (Memo Remigi, Alberto Testa)	6
"Mai mai mai Valentina" - Giorgio Gaber, Pat Boone (Gene Colonnello, Alberto Testa)	7
"Adesso sì" - Sergio Endrigo, Chad & Jeremy (Sergio Endrigo)	8
"Nessuno di voi" – Milva, Richard Anthony (Gorni Kramer, Vito Pallavicini)	9
"Se tu non fossi qui" - Peppino Gagliardi, Pat Boone (Carlo Alberto Rossi, Marisa Terzi)	10
"Così come viene" - Remo Germani, Les Surfs (Ezio Leoni, Vito Pallavicini)	11
"La notte dell'addio" - Iva Zanicchi, Vic Dana (Arrigo Amadesi, Giuseppe Diverio, Memo Remigi, Alberto Testa)	12
"A la buena de Dios" - I Ribelli, The New Christy Minstrels (Gualtiero Malgoni, Bruno Pallesi)	13
"Parlami di te" - Edoardo Vianello, Françoise Hardy (Edoardo Vianello, Vito Pallavicini)	14
"Dipendesse da me" - Luciana Turina, Gino (Iller Pattacini, Vito Pallavicini)	Eliminated
"Il ragazzo della via Gluck" - Adriano Celentano, Trio del Clan (Luciano Beretta, Miki Del Prete, Adriano Celentano)	Eliminated
"Io non posso crederti" - Franco Tozzi, Bobby Vinton (Gianni Marchetti, Gianni Sanjust)	Eliminated
"Io ti amo" - Anna Marchetti, Plinio Maggi (Gianni Fallabrino, Plinio Maggi)	Eliminated
"La carta vincente" - Gino Paoli, Ricardo (Gino Paoli)	Eliminated
"Lei mi aspetta" - Nicola Di Bari, Gene Pitney (Vito Pallavicini, Alberto Baldan Bembo)	Eliminated
"Pafff... bum" - Lucio Dalla, The Yardbirds (Sergio Bardotti, Gian Franco Reverberi)	Eliminated
"Per questo voglio te" - Giuseppe Di Stefano, P. J. Proby (Mogol, Mansueto Deponti)	Eliminated
"Quando vado sulla riva" - Luciano Tomei, Luis Alberto del Paraná & Los Paraguayos (Franco Maresca, Mario Pagano)	Eliminated
"Questa volta" - Bobby Solo, The Yardbirds (Bobby Solo, Mogol)	Eliminated
"Se questo ballo non finisse mai" - John Foster, Paola Bertoni (Vito Pallavicini, Gino Mescoli)	Eliminated
"Un giorno tu mi cercherai" - Equipe 84, The Renegades (Pantros, Franco Campanino)	Eliminated

Broadcasts

Local broadcasts

All shows were broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio). The semi-finals was broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio) at 21:10 CET and on Secondo Programma (television) at 21:15 CET. The final was broadcast on Programma Nazionale and on Secondo Programma at 21:00 CET.

International broadcasts

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

International broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 1966

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Belgium	RTB	RTB		[2]
Brazil	Rádio Jornal do Brasil [pt][a]			[3]
Colombia	Radio Sutatenza[b]			[4]
Costa Rica	Radiolandia[c]			[5]
Czechoslovakia	ČST	ČST		[6]
France	ORTF	Deuxième Chaîne[d]		[7]
Hungary	MTV	MTV		[8]
Poland	TP	TV Polska		[9]
Portugal	RTP	RTP		[10]
Romania	TVR	TVR[e]		[11]
Soviet Union	CT USSR	Programme Two[f]		[12]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TSR	Georges Hardy [fr]	[13]
Yugoslavia	JRT	Televizija Beograd		[14]
		Televizija Ljubljana[g]		[15]
		Radio Novi Sad[h]		[16]