Sanremo 1960 - Tony Dallara canta Romantica

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) is a song written by Italian singer-songwriter

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with Dino Verde. It was performed for the first time during the tenth Sanremo Music Festival in January 1960, when two different versions of the song were sung by Rascel and

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. Rascel performed the song as a soft ballad, while Dallara, who was considered by Italian music critics as one of the '' urlatori'' ("screamers"), a music style popular in Italy during the 1960s, gave a more powerful rendition of the song. The song placed first in the competition and went on to be chosen as in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960, where it was performed in

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by Rascel, twelfth on the night. It followed 's

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with " Bonne nuit ma chérie" and preceded 's

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with " Tom Pillibi". At the close of voting, it had received 5 points, placing it 8th in a field of 13. The song spanned three foreign versions in 1960: *

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's version topped the French charts for a week. * The Estonian version by the

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Male Quartet entitled "Romantika" altered the original by skipping the

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. For two seasons of the Estonian hit comedy talk show "Rahva Oma Kaitse", this version was featured as the end title piece. One of the editors, Mart Juur, commented: "Honestly, meanwhile we haven't heard anything of the worth of Ringo Starr's '

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' and 'Romantika' by the Male Quartet of the Estonian Radio. Look, there was a time when we used the so-called '

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' songs, but recently we've started to pay attention at the quality of our featured music!" *

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recorded an English version of the song just after the contest, in 1960. Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, the

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vintage band Lollipop performed and released an Italian-language version of "Romantica", with singer

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. The band was founded by singer Rune Larsen for a vintage music show in

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, and had become very successful with 30 episodes on TV and two tours, as well as music releases between 1955 and 1965. As the Italian representative, "Romantica" was succeeded at the 1961 contest by Betty Curtis with " Al di là".

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;Tony Dallara version ;Dalida version

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Romantica (Song) Eurovision songs of Italy Eurovision songs of 1960 Sanremo Music Festival songs Songs with music by Renato Rascel 1960s ballads Songs with lyrics by Dino Verde