The Sanremo Music Festival 1973 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1973), officially the 23rd Italian Song Festival (23º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 23rd annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 8 and 10 March 1973. The show was presented by Mike Bongiorno, assisted by Gabriella Farinon. Vittorio Salvetti served as artistic director.[1]
The 23rd edition of Sanremo was the first to be broadcast in color. The final night was broadcast by Programma Nazionale, while the first two nights were broadcast live only by radio.[1]
The winner of the festival was Peppino di Capri with the song "Un grande amore e niente più".[1]
Participants and results
| Participants and results[1] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) | Rank | |
| "Un grande amore e niente più" – Peppino di Capri (E. J. Wright, Giuseppe Faiella, Franco Califano) |
1 | |
| "Come un ragazzino" – Peppino Gagliardi (Peppino Gagliardi, Gaetano Amendola) |
2 | |
| "Da troppo tempo" – Milva (Gene Colonnello, Luigi Albertelli) |
3 | |
| "Dolce frutto" – Ricchi e Poveri (Umberto Balsamo, Cristiano Minellono) |
4 | |
| "Serena" - Gilda Giuliani (Gino Mescoli, Vito Pallavicini) |
5 | |
| "Tu nella mia vita" - Wess & Dori Ghezzi (Arfemo) |
6 | |
| "L'uomo che si gioca il cielo a dadi" - Roberto Vecchioni (Roberto Vecchioni) |
7 | |
| "La bandiera di sole" - Fausto Leali (Vito Pallavicini, Fausto Leali) |
8 | |
| "Amore mio" – Umberto Balsamo (Umberto Balsamo, Cristiano Minellono) |
9 | |
| "Mi sono chiesta tante volte" - Anna Identici (Gianni Guarnieri, Pier Paolo Preti) |
10 | |
| "Come sei bella" - I Camaleonti (Claudio Cavallaro, Giancarlo Bigazzi) |
11 | |
| "Tu giovane amore mio" - Donatello (Ricky Gianco, Alberto Nicorelli, Gian Pieretti, Fulvio Monachesi) |
12 | |
| "Il mondo è qui" - Memo Remigi (Memo Remigi) |
13 | |
| "Tre minuti di ricordi" - Alessandro (Alessandro Pintus, Miki Del Prete) |
14 | |
| "Straniera straniera" - Lionello (Franco Chiaravalle, Francesco Specchia) |
15 | |
| "Una casa grande" - Lara Saint Paul (Andrea Lo Vecchio, Nicola Aprile, Nereo Villa) |
16 | |
| "Addio amor" - Mocedades (Massimo Gallerani, Gianfranco Bosisio, Mario Nobile) |
Eliminated | |
| "Angeline" - Pop-Tops (Rosa Nisi Marsella, Claudio Daiano) |
Eliminated | |
| "Anika na-o" - Jet (Felice Piccarreda, Piero Cochis, Piero Cassano) |
Eliminated | |
| "Cara amica" - Bassano (Francesco Specchia, Paolo Prencipe, Vitaliano Caruso) |
Eliminated | |
| "Dove andrai" - Carmen Amato (Detto Mariano) |
Eliminated | |
| "Elisa Elisa" - Sergio Endrigo (Sergio Bardotti, Sergio Endrigo) |
Eliminated | |
| "Innamorata io?" - Lolita (Alessandro Celentano, Franco Chiaravalle) |
Eliminated | |
| "Mistero" - Gigliola Cinquetti (Claudio Mattone) |
Eliminated | |
| "Mondo mio" - Christian De Sica (Paolo Conte, Giorgio Conte) |
Eliminated | |
| "Ogni volta che mi pare" - Alberto Feri (Franca Evangelisti, Piero Pintucci) |
Eliminated | |
| "Povero" - Junior Magli (Luciana Medini, Mario Mellier) |
Eliminated | |
| "Sugli sugli bane bane" - Le Figlie del Vento (Franco Chiaravalle, Paolo Tomelleri, Anna Maria Piccioli) |
Eliminated | |
| "Vado via" - Drupi (Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli) |
Eliminated | |
| "Via Garibaldi" - Toni Santagata (Toni Santagata) |
Eliminated | |
Broadcasts
Local broadcast
The final night was broadcast by Programma Nazionale, while the first two nights were broadcast live only by radio.[1]
International broadcast
Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Japan
|
NHK | NHK[a] | Yutaka Ishida | [2] |
 Yugoslavia
|
JRT | TV Beograd 1 | [3] | |
| TV Zagreb 1 | [4] | |||
 Spain
|
SER | Radio Girona | [5] |
Notes and references
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
- ^ a b "第２３回サンレモ歌謡祭 ―イタリア放送協会提供―" [The 23rd Sanremo Song Festival – Presented by the Italian Broadcasting Corporation] (in Japanese). NHK. 30 June 1973. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ "Телевизија" [Television]. Borba (in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic script)). Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 10 March 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 25 May 2024 – via Belgrade University Library.
- ^ "TV Zagreb – subota, 10. ožujka" [TV Zagreb – Saturday 10 January]. Glas Podravine (in Serbo-Croatian). Koprivnica, Yugoslavia. 9 March 1973. p. 11. Retrieved 1 September 2024 – via Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, University of Zagreb.
- ^ "TVE programas" [TVE programmes]. Los Sitios (in Spanish). Girona, Spain. 10 March 1973. p. 4. Retrieved 10 February 2025 – via Ayuntamiento de Gerona.
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