Sanremo Music Festival 1970

The Sanremo Music Festival 1970 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1970), officially the 20th Italian Song Festival (20º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 20th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 26 and 28 February 1970, and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was presented by Nuccio Costa, assisted by the actors Enrico Maria Salerno and Princess Ira von Fürstenberg.^[1]

Sanremo Music Festival 1970
Dates
Semi-final 1	26 February 1970
Semi-final 2	27 February 1970
Final	28 February 1970
Host
Venue	Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)	Nuccio Costa and Enrico Maria Salerno, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg
Artistic director	Gianni Ravera, Ezio Radaelli
Host broadcaster	Programma Nazionale
Website	www.raiplay.it/programmi/sanremo19701
Vote
Number of entries	26
Winner	Adriano Celentano and Claudia Mori "Chi non lavora non fa l'amore"
1969 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 1971

The final night was broadcast by Programma Nazionale, while the first two nights were broadcast live only by radio. 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 Adriano Celentano and Claudia Mori with the song "Chi non lavora non fa l'amore".^[1]

Participants and results

Adriano Celentano and Claudia Mori holding the first prize

Nicola Di Bari (center) and Ricchi e Poveri and Claudia holding the second prize

Participants and results[1]
Song, performing artists and writer(s)	Rank
"Chi non lavora non fa l'amore" – Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori (Luciano Beretta, Miki Del Prete, Adriano Celentano, Nando De Luca)	1
"La prima cosa bella" – Nicola Di Bari, Ricchi e Poveri (Nicola Di Bari, Mogol)	2
"L'arca di Noè" – Sergio Endrigo, Iva Zanicchi (Sergio Endrigo, Luis Bacalov)	3
"Eternità" – Ornella Vanoni, I Camaleonti (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Claudio Cavallaro)	4
"La spada nel cuore" – Patty Pravo, Little Tony (Mogol, Carlo Donida)	5
"Romantico blues" - Gigliola Cinquetti, Bobby Solo (Lorenzo Pilat, Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace)	6
"Pa’ diglielo a ma’" - Rosalino Cellamare, Nada (Jimmy Fontana, Franco Migliacci)	7
"Sole pioggia e vento" - Luciano Tajoli, Mal (Elio Isola, Mogol)	8
"Tipitipitì" – Orietta Berti, Mario Tessuto (Lorenzo Pilat, Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace)	9
"L’amore è una colomba" - Gianni Nazzaro, Marisa Sannia (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Totò Savio)	10
"Taxi" - Antoine, Anna Identici (Gianni Argenio, Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri)	11
"Hippy" - Fausto Leali, Carmen Villani (Fausto Leali, Luciano Beretta)	12
"Canzone blu" - Tony Renis, Sergio Leonardi (Tony Renis, Mogol, Alberto Testa)	13
"Re di cuori" - Nino Ferrer, Caterina Caselli (Claudio Cavallaro, Gaetano Savio, Giancarlo Bigazzi)	14
"Accidenti" -Rocky Roberts, Il Supergruppo (Ricky Gianco, Gian Pieretti)	Eliminated
"Ahi ahi ragazzo!" - Rita Pavone, Valeria Mongardini (Umberto Napolitano, Franco Migliacci)	Eliminated
"Ahi! Che male che mi fai" - Ragazzi della via Gluck, Paolo Mengoli (Toto Cutugno, Cristiano Minellono)	Eliminated
"Che effetto mi fa" - Pino Donaggio, Sandie Shaw (Pino Donaggio, Cristiano Minellono)	Eliminated
"Ciao anni verdi" - Rosanna Fratello, Domodossola (Nando De Luca, Adriano Celentano)	Eliminated
"Io mi fermo qui" - Donatello, Dik Dik (Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli)	Eliminated
"L’addio" - Michele, Lucia Rizzi (Andrea Lo Vecchio, Plinio Maggi, Sergio Bardotti)	Eliminated
"La stagione di un fiore" - Emiliana, Gens (Salvatore Ruisi, Luciano Rossi)	Eliminated
"Nevicava a Roma" - Renato Rascel, Pio (Roberto Negri, P. Verdecchia, Miki Del Prete, Luciano Beretta)	Eliminated
"Occhi a mandorla" - Rossano, Dori Ghezzi (Piero Soffici, Vito Pallavicini)	Eliminated
"Ora vivo" - Francesco Banti, Dino Drusiani (Herbert Pagani, Enzo Favata)	Eliminated
"Serenata" - Claudio Villa, Tony Del Monaco (Enrico Polito, Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gaetano Savio)	Eliminated

Broadcasts

Local broadcast

All shows were broadcast on Italian Television and Secondo Programma, beginning at 22:00 CET (21:00 UTC).

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 1970

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Argentina	Radio Rivadavia		Cacho Fontana	[2]
Australia	Nine Network	GTV-9[a]		[3]
Brazil	Rede Tupi[b]	TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro		[4]
		TV Tupi São Paulo		[5]
		TV Brasília		[6]
		TV Paraná		[7]
		TV Piratini		[8]
Chile	Canal 13[c]			[9][10]
Czechoslovakia	ČsR [cs; sk]	Radio Praha[d]		[11]
Iceland	RÚV	Sjónvarpið[e]		[12]
Portugal	RTP	RTP		[13]
Romania	TVR	Programul 1[f]		[14]
Spain	TVE	TVE 1	José Luis Uribarri	[15][16]
	SER	Radio Castellón [es]		[17]
		Radio Girona [ca]		[18]
		Radio Las Palmas		[19]
		Radio San Sebastián		[20]
		Radio Valladolid [es]		[15]
		Radio Zaragoza		[21]
Yugoslavia	JRT	Televizija Beograd		[22]
		Televizija Ljubljana		[23]
		Televizija Zagreb		[24]

Notes

1. Delayed broadcast on 1 March at 17:00 and 22:25 (AEST)^[3]
2. Deferred broadcast at 21:00 (BRT)
3. Delayed broadcast on 18 and 25 October at 19:25 (CLST)^[9]
4. Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 13 August at 17:40 (CEST)^[11]
5. Delayed broadcast on 10 May at 20:50 (WET)^[12]
6. Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 14 March 1970 at 22:20 (EET)^[14]