Sanremo Music Festival 1969

The Sanremo Music Festival 1969 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1969), officially the 19th Italian Song Festival (19º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 19th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 30 January and 1 February 1969,^[1] and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was presented by Nuccio Costa and Gabriella Farinon.^[1]

Sanremo Music Festival 1969
Dates
Semi-final 1	30 January 1969
Semi-final 2	31 January 1969
Final	1 February 1969
Host
Venue	Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)	Nuccio Costa and Gabriella Farinon
Artistic director	Gianni Ravera
Host broadcaster	Programma Nazionale
Website	www.raiplay.it/programmi/sanremo1969
Vote
Number of entries	24
Winner	Bobby Solo and Iva Zanicchi "Zingara"
1968 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 1970

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 Bobby Solo and Iva Zanicchi with the song "Zingara".^[1] Zanicchi was thus selected to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, with "Due grosse lacrime bianche".

Participants and results

Bobby Solo and Iva Zanicchi after their victory

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

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 1969

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Brazil	Rádio Jornal do Brasil [pt][a]			[2]
Hungary	MR	Kossuth Rádió		[3]
Japan	NHK	NHK[b]	Yutaka Ishida	[4]
Portugal	RTP	RTP[c]		[5]
Romania	TVR	Programul 1[d]		[6]
Spain	TVE	TVE 1, TVE Canarias[e]		[7][8]
	RNE	Radio Nacional		[9]
		Radio Peninsular de Barcelona [es]		[8]
	SER	Radio Barcelona [es]
		Radio Castellón [es]		[10]
		Radio Murcia [es]		[9]
		Radio Orense		[11]
		Radio Sevilla [es]		[12]
Yugoslavia	JRT	Televizija Beograd		[13]
		Televizija Ljubljana		[14]