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 ...
1969, with a double performance by
Bobby Solo
Roberto Satti better known as Bobby Solo (born 18 March 1945) is an Italian singer, musician and film actor.
Singing career
In 1964, Solo participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song " Una lacrima sul viso" ("A Tear on your Face", w ...
and
Iva Zanicchi
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. The Solo's version peaked at first place for two weeks on the Italian hit parade.
The song also named a
musicarello
The musicarello (; plural: musicarelli) is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are alm ...
Mariano Laurenti
Mariano Laurenti (15 April 1929 – 6 January 2022) was an Italian film director and actor.
Career
He started as a script supervisor and later became an assistant director for, among others, Mauro Bolognini and Stefano Vanzina. He directed 50 ...
and starred by the same Bobby Solo and by
Loretta Goggi
Loretta Goggi ( born 29 September 1950) is an Italian singer, actress, comedian and TV host.
Goggi is also an acclaimed singer and her records have sometimes entered the Italian pop charts. She was the first runner-up at the 1981 ''Festival del ...
.
Charts
Track listing
Bobby Solo Version
; 7" single – SRL 10-527
# "Zingara" (Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli)
# "Piccola ragazza triste" (Cesare Gigli, Gianni Sanjust, Capuano, Bobby Solo)
Iva Zanicchi Version
; 7" single – REN NP 16327
# "Zingara" (Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli)
# "Io Sogno" (Salvatore Vinciguerra)