Sanremo Music Festival 1974
| Sanremo Music Festival 1974 | |
|---|---|
| Dates and venue | |
| Semi-final 1 |
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| Semi-final 2 |
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| Final |
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| Venue | Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Italy |
| Organisation | |
| Broadcaster | Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) |
| Presenters | Corrado and Gabriella Farinon |
| Vote | |
| Number of entries | 28 |
| Winner | Iva Zanicchi "Ciao cara come stai?" |
The Sanremo Music Festival 1974 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1974), officially the 24th Italian Song Festival (24º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 24th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 7 and 9 March 1974, and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was presented by Corrado, assisted by Gabriella Farinon. Gianni Ravera, Vittorio Salvetti and Elio Gigante served as artistic directors.[1]
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 Iva Zanicchi with the song "Ciao cara come stai?".[1]
Participants and results

| Participants and results[1] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) | Rank | |
| "Ciao cara come stai?" – Iva Zanicchi (Cristiano Malgioglio, Claudio Daiano, Dinaro, Italo Ianne) | 1 | |
| "Questa è la mia vita" – Domenico Modugno (Luciano Beretta, Domenico Modugno, Elide Suligoj) | 2 | |
| "Occhi rossi" – Orietta Berti (Daniele Pace, Corrado Conti, Lorenzo Pilat, Mario Panzeri) | 3 | |
| "Sta piovendo dolcemente" – Anna Melato (Maurizio Piccoli, Pino Donaggio) | Finalist | |
| "Il mio volo bianco" - Emanuela Cortesi (Claudio Daiano, Flavio Zanon, Italo Ianne) | Finalist | |
| "Senza titolo" - Gilda Giuliani (Vito Pallavicini, Alfredo Ferrari, Gino Mescoli) | Finalist | |
| "Se hai paura" - Domodossola (Roberto Soffici, Massimo Guantini, Luigi Albertelli) | Finalist | |
| "Mon ami Tango" - Les Charlots (Daniele Pace, Corrado Conti, Lorenzo Pilat, Mario Panzeri) | Finalist | |
| "Notte dell'estate" – Valentina Greco (A. Mammoliti, Aldo Buonocore, Claudio Celli) | Finalist | |
| "Il matto del villaggio" - Nicola Di Bari (Franco Migliacci, Claudio Mattone, Piero Pintucci) | Finalist | |
| "Ah! L'amore" - Mouth & MacNeal (E. Lombardo, G. Sebastianelli, Ermanno Capelli) | Finalist | |
| "A modo mio" - Gianni Nazzaro (Claudio Baglioni, Antonio Coggio) | Finalist | |
| "In controluce" - Al Bano (Albano Carrisi, Paolo Limiti) | Finalist | |
| "Innamorati" - Mino Reitano (Luciano Beretta, Franco Reitano, Mino Reitano) | Finalist | |
| "Un po' di coraggio" - Rosanna Fratello (Gian Pieretti, A. R. Mancino) | Finalist | |
| "Cavalli bianchi" - Little Tony (Miro, Giulifan, Bruno Casu) | Finalist | |
| "Monica delle bambole" - Milva (Luciano Beretta, Elide Suligoj) | Finalist | |
| "Sole giallo" - Middle of the Road (Maurizio Piccoli, Pino Donaggio) | Finalist | |
| "Canta con me" - Kambiz (Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli) | Eliminated | |
| "Capelli sciolti" - Donatella Rettore (Donatella Rettore, Mario Pagano) | Eliminated | |
| "Complici" - Riccardo Fogli (Luigi Lopez, Carla Vistarini) | Eliminated | |
| "Fiume grande" - Franco Simone (Franco Simone) | Eliminated | |
| "La canta" - Orchestra Spettacolo Casadei (Raoul Casadei, Enrico Muccioli, Al Pedulli) | Eliminated | |
| "La donna quando pensa" - Paola Musiani (Mauro Galati, Ermanno Capelli) | Eliminated | |
| "Per una donna donna" - Antonella Bottazzi (Antonella Bottazzi) | Eliminated | |
| "Qui" - Rossella (Paolo Amerigo Cassella, Riccardo Cocciante, Marco Luberti) | Eliminated | |
| "Ricomincerei" - Sonia Gigliola Conti (Piero Soffici, Gian Pieretti) | Eliminated | |
| "Valentin tango" - Piero Focaccia (Luciano Beretta, Edilio Capotosti) | Eliminated | |
Broadcasts
Local broadcast
All shows were broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio). The semi-finals was broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio) at 21:10 CET and on Secondo Programma (television) at 21:15 CET. The final was broadcast on Programma Nazionale and on Secondo Programma at 21:00 CET.
International broadcasts
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canal 13[a] | Cacho Fontana | [2] | ||
| Tevedos[a] | ||||
| Canal 13[b] | Pepe Guixé | [3] | ||
| MTV | MTV1[c] | [4] | ||
| MBC[d] | Lee Hae-seong | [5] | ||
| TRT | TRT Televizyon | [6] | ||
| İl radyosu[e] | [7] | |||
| JRT | TV Beograd 1[f] | [8] | ||
| Radio Belgrade 1[f] | ||||
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ a b Deferred broadcast the day of the final at 20:00 (ART)[2]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 17 March at 22:00 (CLST)[3]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 20 April 1974 at 20:45 (CET)[4]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 2 June at 22:20 (KST)[5]
- ^ Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 11 July at 16:00 (EEST)[7]
- ^ a b Deferred broadcast on Radio Belgrade 1 the day of the final at 22:35 (CEST)[8]
References
- ^ a b c d Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
- ^ a b "Programa para hoy" [Program for today]. Crónica (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina. 9 March 1974. p. 16. Retrieved 1 October 2024 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b "Canal 13 presentará Festival de San Remo" [Channel 13 will present Sanremo Festival]. La Tercera (in Spanish). 17 March 1974. p. 52.
- ^ a b "Szombat – április 20" [Saturday – 20 April]. Rádió– és Televízióújság (in Hungarian). Vol. 19, no. 15. Budapest, Hungary. 15 April 1974. p. 20. Retrieved 15 March 2025 – via Nemzeti Archívum.
- ^ a b "MBCTV2일밤 산레모가요제放映" [MBC 2 June Sanremo Song Festival broadcast]. Maeil Business (in Korean). Seoul, South Korea. 29 May 1974. p. 8. Retrieved 31 August 2024 – via Naver.
- ^ "TV". Milliyet (in Turkish). Istanbul, Turkey. 9 March 1974. p. 8. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ a b "Radyolar" [Radios]. Milliyet (in Turkish). Istanbul, Turkey. 11 July 1974. p. 8. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Телевизија" [Television]. Borba (in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic script)). Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 9 March 1974. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2024 – via Belgrade University Library.