Friday 1 January 1999

1964 SAN REMO FESTIVAL

Edition number - 14
Date - January 30 - February 1, 1964
Location - San Remo Casino
Hosts - Mike Bongiorno / Giuliana Lojodice
Artistic director - Gianni Ravera
Musical director - none / orchestra brought together by the organisation and put at the disposal of the various entrants with their own musical directors
Number of entries - 24 (played in two different arrangements)
Winning entry - 'Non ho l'età' Gigliola Cinquetti / Patricia Carli
Winning songwriters - Nicola Salerno "Nisa" / Mario Panzeri / Gene Colonello
Winning conductors - Gianfranco Monaldi / Gianfranco Intra

Note 1 - Bobby Solo’s rendition of ‘Una lacrima sul viso’ was performed in playback (with conductor Gianni Marchetti and the orchestra also faking a live performance), allegedly due to the singer’s indisposition caused by a cold. In the end, the song was disqualified.

Note 2 - The big question mark in the list below is Raphael Bark, who, as the only name left on the list after all other conductors, inevitably has to have been involved in Tony Renis’ interpretation of ‘Sorrisi di sera’. Renis already recorded some of his work abroad in 1964 – even recording a single with Quincy Jones’ orchestra that same year! –, but, strangely, the single ‘Sorrisi di sera’ credits Angel ‘Pocho’ Gatti with the arrangement, a maestro who, according to the official list of participants, did not appear in the 1964 festival. The name ‘Raphael Bark’ poses further problems, given that it appears nowhere else on the Internet in connection with 1960s music. Probably, the name has been misspelled – or was it a pseudonym used by Gatti?

After their victory in the 1964 San Remo Festival, Gigliola Cinquetti and her conductor Gianfranco Monaldi also managed first place in that same year's Eurovision Song Contest (Eurofestival) in Copenhagen

PARTICIPATING CONDUCTORS

EDUARDO ALFIERI
  • ‘Sole, pizza e amore’ Aurelio Fierro (Tata Giacobetti - Virgilio Savona / arr. Eduardo Alfieri)
RAPHAEL BARK (?) (cp. note 2 above)
  • ‘Sorrisi di sera’ Tony Renis (Giulio Rapetti "Mogol" - Alberto Testa - Tony Renis / arr. Angel ‘Pocho’ Gatti)
PINO CALVI
  • ‘Motivo d’amore’ Pino Donaggio (Pino Donaggio / arr. Angelo Giacomazzi)
  • ‘Venti chilometri al giorno’ Nicola Arigliano (Giulio Rapetti "Mogol" - Pino Massara / arr. Pino Calvi)
FRANCO CASSANO
  • ‘Quando vedrai la mia ragazza’ Little Tony (Carlo Rossi "Giangrano" - Antonio Ciacci / arr. ?)
ENZO CERAGIOLI
  • ‘E se domani’ Fausto Cigliano (Giorgio Calabrese / Carlo Alberto Rossi / arr. Enzo Ceragioli)
NELLO CIANGHEROTTI
  • ‘Che me ne importa a me’ Domenico Modugno (Domenico Modugno / arr. Nello Ciangherotti)
  • ‘Sole, sole’ Laura Villa (Laura Zanin - Arturo Casadei / arr. Gigi Cichellero)
  • ‘Piccolo piccolo’ Peter Kraus (Antonio Amurri - Lelio Luttazzi / arr. Gigi Cichellero)
  • ‘Venti chilometri al giorno’ Peter Kraus (Giulio Rapetti "Mogol" - Pino Massara / arr. Gigi Cichellero)
LUIS ENRÍQUEZ BACALOV
  • ‘Ieri ho incontrato mia madre’ Antonio Prieto (Gino Paoli / arr. Luis Enríquez Bacalov)
  • ‘Passo su passo’ Claudio Villa (Franco Migliacci - Umberto Bindi / arr. Luis Enríquez Bacalov)
GIANNI FALLABRINO
  • ‘Tu piangi per niente’ Lilly Bonato (Vito Pallavicini - Piero Soffici / arr. Gianni Fallabrino)
  • ‘L’ultimo tram (A mezzanotte)’ Frida Boccara (Giorgio Calabrese - Eros Sciorilli / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘Sabato sera’ Gil Fields & Fraternity Brothers (Bruno Pallesi - Walter Gualtiero Malgoni / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘Così felice’ Patricia Carli (Giorgio Gaber / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘Non ho l’età (Per amarti)’ Patricia Carli (Nicola Salerno "Nisa" - Mario Panzeri - Gene Colonello / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘E se domani’ Gene Pitney (Giorgio Calabrese - Carlo Alberto Rossi / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘Quando vedrai la mia ragazza’ Gene Pitney (Carlo Rossi "Giangrano" - Antonio Ciacci / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘La prima che incontro’ Gil Fields & Fraternity Brothers (Vito Pallavicini - Gorni Kramer / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘Un bacio piccolissimo’ Bobby Rydell (Giovanni Ornati - Gino Mescoli / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
  • ‘L’inverno cosa fai?’ Bobby Rydell (Nicola Salerno "Nisa" - Gene Colonello / arr. Gianfranco Intra)
GORNI KRAMER
  • ‘La prima che incontro’ Fabrizio Ferretti (Vito Pallavicini - Gorni Kramer / arr. Gorni Kramer)
  • ‘Stasera no no no’ Remo Germani (Vito Pallavicini - Evasio Roncarati / arr. Ezio Leoni)
  • ‘Come potrei dimenticarti’ Tony Dallara (Vito Pallavicini - Ezio Leoni / arr. Ezio Leoni)
ENZO LEUZZI
  • ‘L’inverno cosa fai?’ Piero Focaccia (Nicola Salerno "Nisa" - Gene Colonello / arr. Enzo Leuzzi)
GIULIO LIBANO
  • ‘Stasera no no no’ April Stevens & Nino Tempo (Vito Pallavicini - Evasio Roncarati / arr. Ezio Leoni)
  • ‘Come potrei dimenticarti’ Ben E. King (Vito Pallavicini - Ezio Leoni / arr. Seymour Barab)
GIANNI MARCHETTI
  • ‘Una lacrima sul viso’ Bobby Solo (Giulio Rapetti "Mogol" - Roberto Satti / arr. Gianni Marchetti) (cp. note 1 above)
GIORDANO BRUNO MARTELLI
  • ‘Mezzanotte’ Cocki Mazzetti (Carlo Rossi - Angelo Rotunno / arr. Giordano Bruno Martelli)
GINO MESCOLI
  • ‘Un bacio piccolissimo’ Robertino (Giovanno Ornati - Gino Mescoli / arr. Gino Mescoli)
  • ‘Non ho l’età (Per amarti)’ Gigliola Cinquetti (Nicola Salerno "Nisa" - Mario Panzeri - Gene Colonello / arr. Gianfranco Monaldi)
  • ‘Tu piangi per niente’ Richard Moser Jr. (Vito Pallavicini - Piero Soffici / arr.  Gianfranco Monaldi)
ENNIO MORRICONE
  • ‘Ieri ho incontrato mia madre’ Gino Paoli (Gino Paoli / arr. Ennio Morricone)
  • ‘Passo su passo’ Little Peggy March (Franco Migliacci - Umberto Bindi / arr. Ennio Morricone)
  • ‘Ogni volta’ Roby Ferrante (Carlo Rossi - Roberto Ferrante "Robifer" / arr. Ennio Morricone)
  • ‘Ogni volta’ Paul Anka (Carlo Rossi - Roberto Ferrante "Robifer" / arr. Ennio Morricone)
  • ‘Mezzanotte’ Los Hermanos Rigual (Carlo Rossi - Angelo Rottuno / arr. Ennio Morricone)
  • ‘Sole, sole’ Los Hermanos Rigual (Laura Zanin - Arturo Casadei / arr. Ennio Morricone)
  • ‘Una lacrima sul viso’ Frankie Laine (Giulio Rapetti "Mogol" - Roberto Satti / arr. Emanuel Vardi)
ILLER PATTACINI
  • ‘Che me ne importa a me’ Frankie Laine (Domenico Modugno / arr. Emanuel Vardi)
  • ‘Così felice’ Giorgio Gaber (Giorgio Gaber / arr. Iller Pattacini)
  • ‘Piccolo piccolo’ Emilio Pericoli (Antonio Amurri - Lelio Luttazzi / arr. Iller Pattacini)
ENRICO SIMONETTI
  • ‘L’ultimo tram (A mezzanotte)’ Milva (Giorgio Calabrese - Eros Sciorilli / arr. Enrico Simonetti)
  • ‘Sole, pizza e amore’ Marina Moran (Tata Giacobetti - Virgilio Savona / arr. Enrico Simonetti)
FRANCESCO TOMASSINI
  • ‘Motivo d’amore’ Frankie Avalon (Pino Donaggio / arr. ?)
  • ‘I sorrisi di sera’ Frankie Avalon (Giulio Rapetti "Mogol" - Alberto Testa - Tony Renis / arr. ?)
LAWRENCE WHIFFIN
  • ‘Sabato sera’ Bruno Filippini (Bruno Pallesi - Walter Gualtieri Malgoni / arr. Lawrence Whiffin)

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