| Sanremo Music Festival | |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Competing: | artists |
| Presenters: | Mike Bongiorno and Maria Giovanna Elmi |
| Host: | Rai 1 |
| Venue: | Teatro Ariston Sanremo, Liguria, Italy |
| Entries1: | 12 |
| Winner1: | Homo Sapiens "Bella da morire" |
The Sanremo Music Festival 1977 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1977), officially the 27th Italian Song Festival (Italian: 27º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 27th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 3 and 5 March 1977. It was the first edition not to take place at the Sanremo Casino, with Ariston going on to become the stable venue of the event.
The first two nights were broadcast live by radio and presented by Maria Giovanna Elmi, while the final night was broadcast by Rai 1 and presented by Elmi together with Mike Bongiorno.[1] Rules of this edition consisted a "head to head" mechanism between two singers at a time. A jury, composed of 25 members, was located immediately under the stage and had to express the vote for a singer or another.[1] The winner of the festival was the group Homo Sapiens with the song "Bella da morire".[1]
| Participants and results | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) | Rank | |
| "Bella da morire" – Homo Sapiens (Renato Pareti, Alberto Salerno) | 1 | |
| "Tu mi rubi l'anima" – Collage (Gabriella Padovan, Antonello de Sanctis) | 2 | |
| "Monica" – I Santo California (Paolo Pinna, Giacomo Simonelli, Elio Palumbo) | 3 | |
| "Miele" – Il Giardino dei Semplici (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Totò Savio) | Semi-finalist | |
| "Gran Premio" – Albatros (Michelle Vasseur, Vito Pallavicini, Toto Cutugno) | Semi-finalist | |
| "Io ti porterei" - Leano Morelli (Leano Morelli) | Semi-finalist | |
| "Dedicato a te" - Santino Rocchetti (Santino Rocchetti, Andrea Lo Vecchio) | Finalist | |
| "E invece con te" - Daniela Davoli (Daniela Davoli, Michele Zarrillo) | Finalist | |
| "Con te ci sto" – Umberto Napolitano (Umberto Napolitano) | Finalist | |
| "Ma perché" - Matia Bazar (Carlo Marrale, Piero Cassano, Aldo Stellita) | Finalist | |
| "Oh Carmela" - Donatella Rettore (Donatella Rettore, Claudio Rego) | Finalist | |
| "Tesoro mio" - La Strana Società (Luigi Albertelli, Corrado Conti, Franco Cassano) | Finalist | |