| Sanremo Music Festival | |
| Year: | 1968 |
| Competing: | artists |
| Semi1: | 1 February 1968 |
| Semi2: | 2 February 1968 |
| Final: | 3 February 1968 |
| Artistic Director: | Gianni Ravera |
| Host: | Programma Nazionale |
| Venue: | Sanremo Casino Sanremo, Liguria, Italy |
| Entries1: | 24 |
| Winner1: | Sergio Endrigo and Roberto Carlos "Canzone per te" |
The Sanremo Music Festival 1968 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1968), officially the 18th Italian Song Festival (Italian: 18º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 18th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo, Italy, between 1 and 3 February 1968 and presented by Pippo Baudo, assisted by actress Luisa Rivelli.[1] According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups.[1] The winners of the festival were Sergio Endrigo and Roberto Carlos with the song "Canzone per te".[1] Endrigo went was thus selected to represent at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, with "Marianne".
| Participants and results | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) | Rank | |
| "Canzone per te" – Sergio Endrigo, Roberto Carlos (Sergio Endrigo, Sergio Bardotti) | 1 | |
| "Casa bianca" – Ornella Vanoni, Marisa Sannia (Don Backy, Eligio La Valle) | 2 | |
| "Canzone" – Adriano Celentano, Milva (Don Backy, Detto Mariano) | 3 | |
| "Deborah" – Fausto Leali, Wilson Pickett (Vito Pallavicini, Giorgio Conte) | 4 | |
| "La tramontana" - Antoine, Gianni Pettenati (Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri) | 5 | |
| "Quando m'innamoro" - Anna Identici, The Sandpipers (Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Roberto Livraghi) | 6 | |
| "Da bambino" - Massimo Ranieri, I Giganti (Riccardo Pradella, Renato Angiolini) | 7 | |
| "Sera" - Gigliola Cinquetti, Giuliana Valci (Roberto Vecchioni, Andrea Lo Vecchio) | 8 | |
| "La siepe" – Al Bano, Bobbie Gentry (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Massara) | 9 | |
| "Un uomo piange solo per amore" - Little Tony, Mario Guarnera (Petaluma, Mario Vicari, Marcello Marrocchi) | 10 | |
| "’Gli occhi miei" - Wilma Goich, Dino (Mogol, Carlo Donida) | 11 | |
| "Stanotte sentirai una canzone" - Annarita Spinaci, Yoko Kishi (Tato Queirolo, Franco Bracardi) | 12 | |
| "Mi va di cantare" - Louis Armstrong, Lara Saint Paul (Vincenzo Buonassisi, Giorgio Bertero, Marino Marini, Aldo Valleroni) | 13 | |
| "La voce del silenzio" - Tony Del Monaco, Dionne Warwick (Paolo Limiti, Mogol, Elio Isola) | 14 | |
| "Che vale per me" - Peppino Gagliardi, Eartha Kitt (Marisa Terzi, Carlo Alberto Rossi) | ||
| "Il posto mio" - Tony Renis, Domenico Modugno (Alberto Testa, Tony Renis)) | ||
| "Il re d'Inghilterra" - Nino Ferrer, Pilade (Nino Ferrer) | ||
| "La farfalla impazzita" - Johnny Dorelli, Paul Anka (Mogol, Lucio Battisti) | ||
| "La vita" - Elio Gandolfi, Shirley Bassey (Antonio Amurri, Bruno Canfora) | ||
| "Le opere di Bartolomeo" - The Rokes, The Cowsills (Sergio Bardotti, Ruggero Cini) | ||
| "Le solite cose" - Pino Donaggio, Timi Yuro (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Donaggio) | ||
| "No amore" - Giusy Romeo, Sacha Distel (Vito Pallavicini, Paolo Conte, Mansueto Deponti, Enrico Intra) | ||
| "Per vivere" - Iva Zanicchi, Udo Jürgens (Nisa, Umberto Bindi) | ||
| "Tu che non sorridi mai" - Orietta Berti, Piergiorgio Farina (Marisa Terzi, Sauro Sili) | ||