The Sanremo Music Festival 1967 was the 17th annual

Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annua ...

, held at the

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between 26 and 28 January 1967. The show was presented by

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and Renata Mauro . According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups. The winners of the Festival were

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and

Claudio Villa Claudio Villa (born Claudio Pica; 1 January 1926 – 7 February 1987) was an Italian singer and actor. Biography Tenor Claudio Villa was born Claudio Pica in the Trastevere quarter of Rome in 1926. He recorded over 3000 songs, sold 45 millio ...

with the song "Non pensare a me". But after the festival, actually the biggest success and the most popular song was "Cuore matto" (crazy heart) of Little Tony, that sold 6 million copies and was the no.1 hit for nine consecutive weeks in the Italian hit parade. During the festival, following the elimination of their song, the partner of

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singer-songwriter

Luigi Tenco Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian singer-songwriter. Biography Tenco was born in Cassine (province of Alessandria) in 1938, the son of Teresa Zoccola and Giuseppe Tenco. He never knew his father, who died in uncle ...

committed suicide. Shortly after the contest ended, the original tape copy of the contest was lost. Italian broadcaster RAI recovered a very rare copy 4 decades later and restored it.

Participants and results

References

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