Sanremo Music Festival 1957

Sanremo Music Festival 1957
Dates
Semi-final 17 February 1957
Semi-final 28 February 1957
Final9 February 1957
Host
VenueSanremo Casino
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)Nunzio Filogamo
and Marisa Allasio, Fiorella Mari, Nicoletta Orsomando
Host broadcasterProgramma Nazionale
Vote
Number of entries19
WinnerClaudio Villa and Nunzio Gallo
"Corde della mia chitarra"
1956 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 1958

The Sanremo Music Festival 1957 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1957), officially the 7th Italian Song Festival (7º Festival della canzone italiana), was the seventh annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 7 and 9 February 1957. The show was presented by television presenter Nunzio Filogamo, assisted by Marisa Allasio, Fiorella Mari, Nicoletta Orsomando.[1]

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] This edition included four nights, containing two semi-finals, a final and "Free Authors Competition" night.

The winner of the festival was "Corde della mia chitarra", performed by Claudio Villa and Nunzio Gallo.[1] The winner of the competition also went on to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, with Gallo chosen from the two interpreters. Initially the songs accepted for the festival were 20 then dropped to 19, as one song was disqualified for being published earlier.

Participants and results

The stage with the hosts of the programme (centre), the Angelini orchestra (left) and the Trovajoli orchestra (right)
Marisa Allasio, Nunzio Filogamo and Fiorella Mari presenting the programme

Each of the four nights included overall twenty performances, ten songs with two performances for each, except for the second night which presented nine songs and overall eighteen performances. The song "La cosa più bella" performed by Carla Boni and Tonina Torrielli was excluded from the second evening for its earlier publication in a juke box in Milan as a version engraved by Cristina Jorio. Five songs advanced from each semi-final to again compose ten songs for the third and final night.[2]

Participants and results[1][3]
Song, performing artists and writer(s) Night Final rank Points
"Corde della mia chitarra" - Claudio Villa - Nunzio Gallo
(Giuseppe Fiorelli, Mario Ruccione) 		2 1 63
"Usignolo" - Claudio Villa - Giorgio Consolini
(Gino Castellani, Luigi Luciano Martelli, Carlo Concina) 		1 2 48
"Scusami" - Gino Latilla - Tonina Torrielli
(Biri, Walter Malgoni, Mario Perrone) 		1 3 43
"Casetta in Canadà" - Carla Boni, Gino Latilla & Duo Fasano - Gloria Christian & Poker di Voci
(Mario Panzeri, Vittorio Mascheroni) 		1 4 32
"Cancello tra le rose" - Claudio Villa - Giorgio Consolini
(Umberto Bertini, Marino De Paolis) 		1 5 30
"Il pericolo numero uno" - Claudio Villa & Gino Latilla - Natalino Otto & Poker di Voci
(Enzo Bonagura, Michele Cozzoli) 		1 6 24
"Intorno a te (È sempre primavera)" - Tina Allori - Tonina Torrielli
(Dario Bernazza, Mario De Angelis, Aldo Piga, Falco) 		2 7 16
"Per una volta ancora" - Carla Boni - Nunzio Gallo
(Umberto Bertini, Giovanni D'Anzi) 		2 8 12
"Un filo di speranza" - Gino Baldi & Duo Fasano - Natalino Otto & Poker di Voci
(Gian Carlo Testoni, Saverio Seracini) 		2 9 7
"Le trote blu" - Carla Boni & Duo Fasano - Gloria Christian, Natalino Otto & Poker di Voci
(Diego Calcagno, Luigi Gelmini) 		2 10 4
"A poco a poco" - Gino Latilla – Luciano Virgili
(Marcella Rivi, Carlo Innocenzi) 		2 Eliminated
"Ancora ci credo" - Tina Allori – Flo Sandon's
(Fecchi, Campanozzi) 		2 Eliminated
"Estasi" - Fiorella Bini – Flo Sandon's
(Da Vinci, Lucchi) 		1 Eliminated
"Finalmente" - Gino Baldi – Luciano Virgili
(Giuseppe Bonavolontà, Marcella Rivi) 		1 Eliminated
"Nel giardino del mio cuore" - Gino Baldi – Jula de Palma
(Gian Carlo Testoni, Gorni Kramer) 		2 Eliminated
"Non ti ricordi più?" - Gino Latilla – Nunzio Gallo
(Da Vinci, Poggiali) 		1 Eliminated
"Raggio nella nebbia" - Fiorella Bini & Duo Fasano – Jula de Palma & Poker di Voci
(Salina, Mario Pagano) 		2 Eliminated
"Un certo sorriso" - Gianni Ravera – Natalino Otto
(Mario Ruccini, Giuseppe Fiorelli) 		1 Eliminated
"Un sogno di cristallo" - Carla Boni – Jula de Palma
(Alberto Testa, Pino Calvi) 		1 Eliminated
"La cosa più bella" - Carla Boni – Tonina Torrielli
(Davide Olivieri, Pinchi) 		Intended for 2 Disqualified

The fourth night, called "Free Authors Competition" (Italian: "Concorso liberi autori"), included ten different songs with their own ranking and scoring, focused on their writing qualities.

Concorso liberi autori - Participants and results[4]
Song and performing artists Writer(s) Rank Points
"Ondamarina" - Claudio Villa - Giorgio Consolini Vernazza - Lops 1 80
"Venezia mia" - Gianni Ravera & Duo Fasano - Luciano Virgili & Poker di Voci Peragallo 2 66
"La più bella canzone del mondo" - Gino Latilla - Nunzio Gallo Mari - Filippini 3 36
"Chiesetta solitaria" - Claudio Villa - Giorgio Consolini Bezzi - Pentaldi 4 24
"La cremagliera delle Dolomiti" - Duo Fasano - Gloria Christian & Poker di Voci Perretta - Fedri 5 16
"Era l'epoca del "cuore"" - Flo Sandon's - Tina Allori Segurini 6 13
"Il nostro sì" - Gino Baldi - Tonina Torrielli Mainardi - Lodigiani 6 13
"Sorrisi e lacrime" - Fiorella Bini - Jula De Palma De Giusti - Cassano 6 13
"Il mio cielo" - Carla Boni - Luciano Virgili De Leitenburg 9 12
"Sono un sognatore" - Gino Latilla - Natalino Otto Umiliani 10 6

Broadcasts

Local broadcast

All shows were broadcast on Italian Television and Secondo Programma, beginning at 22:00 CET.[5][6][7]

International broadcasts

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations are shown in the tables below.

International broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 1957
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Belgium NIR NIR [8]
 Denmark Statsradiofonien Statsradiofonien TV Mogens Kjelstrup [9]
 France RTF RTF Jean Landier [fr] [10][11]
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Elena Gerhardt [12][13][14]
 Luxembourg CLT Télé-Luxembourg [15]
 Monaco Télé Monte-Carlo [16]
 Netherlands NTS NTS Maurits de Wilde [17]
 Sweden SR Sveriges TV [18]
  Switzerland SRG SSR SRG [19]
TSR Jean Landier [20]

Eurovision Song Contest

The winner of this edition, of the third night final, represented Italy at the international Eurovision Song Contest. From the two Sanremo Music Festival interpreters for "Corde della mia chitarra", Nunzio Gallo was chosen to perform the song at Eurovision. Out of ten songs from ten competing countries at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, the Italian song achieved seventh place, receiving points from five out of the nine other countries.[21]

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