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Sanremo Music Festival 1959 | |
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Dates | |
Semi-final 1 | 29 January 1959 |
Semi-final 2 | 30 January 1959 |
Final | 31 January 1959 |
Host | |
Venue | Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Liguria, Italy |
Presenter(s) | Enzo Tortora and Adriana Serra |
Host broadcaster | Programma Nazionale |
Vote | |
Number of entries | 20 |
Winner | Domenico Modugno and Johnny Dorelli "Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" |
The Sanremo Music Festival 1959 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1959), officially the 9th Italian Song Festival (9º Festival della canzone italiana), was the ninth annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 30 January and 1 February 1959. The show was presented by Enzo Tortora and Adriana Serra.[1][2]
According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups, with some artists performing multiple songs.[1] The winner of the festival was "Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)", performed by Domenico Modugno (who was also the composer of the song) and Johnny Dorelli. The couple had already won the previous edition of the festival with "Nel blu, dipinto di blu".[1][3] Modugno went on to perform the song for Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959.
Participants and results[1] | ||
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Song, performing artists and writer(s) | Rank | |
"Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" – Domenico Modugno – Johnny Dorelli (Domenico Modugno, Dino Verde) |
1 | |
"Io sono il vento" – Arturo Testa – Gino Latilla (Gian Carlo Testoni, Giuseppe Fanciulli) |
2 | |
"Conoscerti" – Achille Togliani – Teddy Reno (Giovanni D'Anzi) |
3 | |
"Tua" – Jula de Palma – Tonina Torrielli (Bruno Pallesi, Walter Malgoni) |
4 | |
"Lì per lì " – Aurelio Fierro – Teddy Reno (Luciano Beretta, Guido Viezzoli) |
5 | |
"Sempre con te" - Fausto Cigliano – Nilla Pizzi (Roberto Murolo) |
6 | |
"Avevamo la stessa età" - Aurelio Fierro – Natalino Otto (Claudio Calcagno, Marino Marini) |
7 | |
"Nessuno" - Betty Curtis – Wilma De Angelis Antonietto De Simone, Edilio Capotosti, Vittorio Mascheroni) |
9 | |
"Una marcia in Fa" - Claudio Villa & Gino Latilla – Johnny Dorelli & Betty Curtis (Mario Panzeri, Vittorio Mascheroni) |
9 | |
"Un bacio sulla bocca" - Betty Curtis – Claudio Villa (Alberto Testa, Gigi Cichellero) |
10 | |
"Adorami" - Nilla Pizzi – Tonina Torrielli (Gian Carlo Testoni, Umberto Fusco) |
Eliminated | |
"Così così" - Anna D’Amico – Natalino Otto (Valerio Vancheri) |
Eliminated | |
"La luna è un’altra luna" - Gino Latilla – Natalino Otto (Raoul De Giusti, Biri, Alberto Testa, Carlo Alberto Rossi) |
Eliminated | |
"Ma baciami" - Achille Togliani – Teddy Reno (Dante Panzuti, Antigono Godini, Pietro Rizza) |
Eliminated | |
"Né stelle né mare" - Arturo Testa – Fausto Cigliano (Gian Carlo Testoni, Giorgio Fabor) |
Eliminated | |
"Il nostro refrain" - Nilla Pizzi – Tonina Torrielli (Santi, Olivieri) |
Eliminated | |
"Partir con te" - Claudio Villa – Johnny Dorelli (Pino Calvi) |
Eliminated | |
"Per tutta la vita" - Wilma De Angelis – Jula de Palma (Alberto Testa, Pino Spotti) |
Eliminated | |
"Tu sei qui" - Achille Togliani – Arturo Testa (Alberto Testa, Silvano Birga) |
Eliminated | |
"La vita mi ha dato solo te" - Jula de Palma – Miranda Martino (Biagio Casalini, Marcello De Martino) |
Eliminated |
All shows were broadcast on Italian Television and Secondo Programma, beginning at 22:00 CET (21:00 UTC).
Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations are shown in the tables below.
Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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ORF | ORF | [4] | |
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NIR/INR | NIR | Piet te Nuyl Jr. | [5][6] |
INR | [5] | |||
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Statsradiofonien | Statsradiofonien TV | Mogens Kjelstrup | [7] |
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ARD | Deutsches Fernsehen | [5] | |
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Radio Monte-Carlo | [8] | ||
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NTS | NTS | Piet te Nuyl Jr. | [6] |
Radio Omroep Nieuw Guinea[a] | [9] | |||
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Curom[b] | [10] | ||
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SR | Sveriges TV | [11] | |
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BBC | BBC Television Service[c] | Tom Sloan | [12] |