Sanremo Music Festival 1968

The Sanremo Music Festival 1968 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1968), officially the 18th Italian Song Festival (18º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 18th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo, Italy, between 1 and 3 February 1968,^[1] and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was presented by Pippo Baudo, assisted by actress Luisa Rivelli.^[1]

Sanremo Music Festival 1968
Dates and venue
Semi-final 1	1 February 1968
Semi-final 2	2 February 1968
Final	3 February 1968
Venue	Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Italy
Organisation
Broadcaster	Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI)
Artistic director	Gianni Ravera
Presenters	Pippo Baudo and Luisa Rivelli
Vote
Number of entries	24
Winner	Sergio Endrigo and Roberto Carlos "Canzone per te"
1967 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 1969 Official website

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 Sergio Endrigo and Roberto Carlos with the song "Canzone per te".^[1] Endrigo went was thus selected to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, with "Marianne".

Participants and results

Sergio Endrigo (left) and Roberto Carlos holding the first prize

Participants and results[1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank
"Canzone per te" – Sergio Endrigo, Roberto Carlos (Sergio Endrigo, Sergio Bardotti)	1
"Casa bianca" – Ornella Vanoni, Marisa Sannia (Don Backy, Eligio La Valle)	2
"Canzone" – Adriano Celentano, Milva (Don Backy, Detto Mariano)	3
"Deborah" – Fausto Leali, Wilson Pickett (Vito Pallavicini, Giorgio Conte)	4
"La tramontana" - Antoine, Gianni Pettenati (Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri)	5
"Quando m'innamoro" - Anna Identici, The Sandpipers (Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Roberto Livraghi)	6
"Da bambino" - Massimo Ranieri, I Giganti (Riccardo Pradella, Renato Angiolini)	7
"Sera" - Gigliola Cinquetti, Giuliana Valci (Roberto Vecchioni, Andrea Lo Vecchio)	8
"La siepe" – Al Bano, Bobbie Gentry (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Massara)	9
"Un uomo piange solo per amore" - Little Tony, Mario Guarnera ( Petaluma, Mario Vicari, Marcello Marrocchi)	10
"’Gli occhi miei" - Wilma Goich, Dino (Mogol, Carlo Donida)	11
"Stanotte sentirai una canzone" - Annarita Spinaci, Yoko Kishi (Tato Queirolo, Franco Bracardi)	12
"Mi va di cantare" - Louis Armstrong, Lara Saint Paul (Vincenzo Buonassisi, Giorgio Bertero, Marino Marini, Aldo Valleroni)	13
"La voce del silenzio" - Tony Del Monaco, Dionne Warwick (Paolo Limiti, Mogol, Elio Isola)	14
"Che vale per me" - Peppino Gagliardi, Eartha Kitt (Marisa Terzi, Carlo Alberto Rossi)	Eliminated
"Il posto mio" - Tony Renis, Domenico Modugno (Alberto Testa, Tony Renis))	Eliminated
"Il re d'Inghilterra" - Nino Ferrer, Pilade (Nino Ferrer)	Eliminated
"La farfalla impazzita" - Johnny Dorelli, Paul Anka (Mogol, Lucio Battisti)	Eliminated
"La vita" - Elio Gandolfi, Shirley Bassey (Antonio Amurri, Bruno Canfora)	Eliminated
"Le opere di Bartolomeo" - The Rokes, The Cowsills (Sergio Bardotti, Ruggero Cini)	Eliminated
"Le solite cose" - Pino Donaggio, Timi Yuro (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Donaggio)	Eliminated
"No amore" - Giusy Romeo, Sacha Distel (Vito Pallavicini, Paolo Conte, Mansueto Deponti, Enrico Intra)	Eliminated
"Per vivere" - Iva Zanicchi, Udo Jürgens (Nisa, Umberto Bindi)	Eliminated
"Tu che non sorridi mai" - Orietta Berti, Piergiorgio Farina (Marisa Terzi, Sauro Sili)	Eliminated

Broadcasts

Local broadcast

The final of the festival were broadcast on Programma Nazionale, while the semi-finals were broadcast on radio.

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 1968

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Argentina	Canal 9[a]			[2]
Belgium	BRT	BRT[b]		[3]
Bulgaria	BT	BT		[4]
Czechoslovakia	ČsR [cs; sk]	Rádio Slovensko [sk][c]		[5]
Germany	ARD	Deutsches Fernsehen[d]	Wolf Mittler	[6]
Hungary	MTV	MTV		[7]
	MR	Kossuth Rádió		[8]
Poland	TP	Telewizja Polska		[9]
Romania	TVR	TVR		[10]
Spain	TVE	TVE 1		[11]
	RNE	RNE, Radio Peninsular de Barcelona [es]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TV DRS[e]		[12]
		TSR[f]	Georges Hardy [fr]	[13]
		TSI[g]		[14]
		Radio Monte Ceneri
Yugoslavia	JRT	Televizija Beograd		[15]
		Televizija Ljubljana		[16]
		Televizija Zagreb		[17]

Notes

1. Delayed five-part broadcast on 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 March at 22:30 (ART)^[2]
2. Delayed broadcast on 11 February 1968 at 17:00 (CET)^[3]
3. Delayed broadcast on 10 March 1968 at 15:20 CEST^[5]
4. Delayed broadcast on 27 February 1968 at 22:55 (CET)^[6]
5. Delayed broadcast the following day at 21:35 (CET)^[12]
6. Delayed broadcast the following day at 22:10 (CET)^[13]
7. Delayed broadcast the following day at 17:00 (CET)^[14]