1978 SAN REMO FESTIVAL

Edition number - 28

Date - January 26-28, 1978

Location - Ariston Theatre

Hosts - Maria Giovanna Elmi with Vittorio Salvetti / Beppe Grillo / Stefania Casini

Artistic director - Vittorio Salvetti

Musical director - El Pasador (= Paolo Zavallone)

Number of entries - 14

Winning entry - '... e dirsi ciao' Matia Bazar

Winning songwriters - Giancarlo Golzi / Aldo Stellita / Pierangelo Cassano / Carlo Marrale / Antonella Ruggiero

Note - For the 1978 San Remo Festival, like the year before, each artist only performed live with the orchestra for their first performance; the second and third performances were done with a backing track

Musical director of the 1978 and 1979 editions of the San Remo Festival, Paolo Zavallone - known in arte as El Pasador

PARTICIPATING CONDUCTORS

EL PASADOR (PAOLO ZAVALLONE)

• ‘Un’emozione da poco’ Anna Oxa (Ivano Fossati - Guido Guglielminetti / arr. Ruggero Cini)
• ‘Gianna’ Rino Gaetano (Rino Gaetano / arr. Ruggero Cini)
• ‘Il buio e tu’ Ciro Sebastianelli (Oscar Avogadro - Daniele Pace - Ciro Sebastianelli / arr. Gianni Mazza)
• ‘Tu sola’ Anselmo Genovese (Luigo Cappello - Anselmo Genovese / arr. Reddy Bobbio)
• ‘Armonia e poesia’ Santino Rocchetti (Andrea Lo Vecchio - Santino Rocchetti / arr. Shel Shapiro)
• ‘Il mio amore’ Schola Cantorum (Enrico "Kicko" Fusco - Marco Luberti / arr. Giovanni Tommaso)
• ‘Domani domani’ Laura Luca (Dante Pieretti - Alberto Nicorelli / arr. Natale Massara)
• ‘1/2 notte’ Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble (Ciro Dammicco "Zacar" - Savino Grieco - Stefano Dammicco - Daniel Sentacruz / arr. ?)
• ‘Anna Anna’ Donato Ciletti (Oscar Avogadro - Daniele Pace - Donato Ciletti - Alberto Cavallaro / arr. Vince Tempera)
• ‘N ‘addore ‘e castagne’ Roberto Carrino (Mario Coppola - Roberto Carrino / arr. Gianni Faré)
• ‘Ora’ Dora Moroni (Franco Marino - Donatella Rettore - Claudio Rego - Enrico Intra / arr. Enrico Intra)
• ‘Quando Teresa verrà’ Marco Ferradini (Simon Luca - Marco Ferradini / arr. ?)

NO ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT

• ‘… e dirsi ciao’ Matia Bazar (Giancarlo Golzi - Aldo Stellita - Pierangelo Cassano - Carlo Marrale - Antonella Ruggiero / arr. Matia Bazar)
• ‘Soli’ Beans (Antonio Bella - Gianni Bella / arr. Gianfranco Monaldi)