Sanremo Music Festival 1984 Explained

Sanremo Music Festival
Year:1984
Competing:artists
Semi1:2 February 1984
Semi2:3 February 1984
Final:4 February 1984
Presenters:Pippo Baudo
and Iris Peynado, Elisabetta Gardini, Tiziana Pini, Edy Angelillo
Host:Rai 1
Venue:Teatro Ariston
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Section1:Big Artists section
Entries1:20
Winner1:Al Bano and Romina Power
"Ci sarà"
Section2:Newcomers' section
Entries2:16
Winner2:Eros Ramazzotti
"Terra promessa"

The Sanremo Music Festival 1984 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1984), officially the 34th Italian Song Festival (Italian: 34º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 34th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 2 and 4 February 1984 and broadcast by Rai 1. The show was presented by Pippo Baudo, who also served as the artistic director, assisted by Iris Peynado, Elisabetta Gardini, Tiziana Pini and Edy Angelillo.[1] [2]

The winners of the Big Artists section were Al Bano and Romina Power with the song "Ci sarà", while Patty Pravo won the Critics Award with "Per una bambola". Eros Ramazzotti won the Newcomers section, held for the first time this year, with the song "Terra promessa".[1]

"Favola triste", sung by Silvia Conti, was disqualified because it had been published earlier. It was replaced with the song "Pomeriggio a Marrakech", sung by the duo I Trilli.[1] Loretta Goggi, which was supposed to participate with the song "Un amore grande", withdrew last minute and was replaced by Pupo, who eventually ranked fourth.[1]

Participants and results

Big Artists

Big Artists section
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) RankNotes
"Ci sarà" – Al Bano and Romina Power
(Cristiano Minellono, Dario Farina)
1
  • Winner of the "Big Artists" section
"Serenata" – Toto Cutugno
(Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini)
2
"Cara" – Christian
(Mario Balducci)
3
"Un amore grande" – Pupo
(Totò Savio, Giancarlo Bigazzi, Umberto Tozzi)
4
"Non voglio mica la luna" – Fiordaliso
(Enzo Malepasso, Luigi Albertelli, Zucchero Fornaciari)
5
"Nina" – Mario Castelnuovo
(Mario Castelnuovo)
6
"Non scendo" - Anna Oxa
(Oscar Avogadro, Mario Lavezzi)
7
"Regalami un sorriso" - Drupi
(Adelio Cogliati, Drupi, Franco Fasano)
8
"Chi (mi darà)" - Iva Zanicchi
(Umberto Balsamo, Cristiano Malgioglio)
9
"Per una bambola" - Patty Pravo
(Maurizio Monti)
10
  • Critics Award
"Anni ruggenti" - Gruppo Italiano
(Patrizia Di Malta, Raffaella Riva, Gigi Folino, Chicco Santulli)
11
"Ancora ti vorrei" - Bobby Solo
(Roberto Satti, Susuki, Manrico Mologni)
12
"Libera" - Donatella Milani
(Donatella Milani, A. Filistrucchi, Putzolu)
13
"Come si cambia" - Fiorella Mannoia
(Maurizio Piccoli, Renato Pareti)
14
"Amore amore" - Marisa Sannia
(Daniele Pace, Corrado Conti)
15
"La bottega del caffè" – Alberto Camerini
(Alberto Camerini)
16
"Serena alienazione" - Riccardo Del Turco
(Mogol, Riccardo Del Turco)
17
"Radioclima" - Garbo
(Garbo)
18
"Nuovo swing" - Enrico Ruggeri
(Enrico Ruggeri)
19
"Allo stadio" - Stadio
(Luca Carboni, Gaetano Curreri)
20

Newcomers

Newcomers section
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) RankNotes
"Terra promessa" - Eros Ramazzotti
(Eros Ramazzotti, Alberto Salerno, Renato Brioschi)
1
  • Winner of the Newcomers' section
"Solo con l'anima mia" - Marco Armani
(Rosalino Cellamare, Luca Carboni)
2
"Aspettami ogni sera" - Flavia Fortunato
(Elio Palumbo, Vania Magelli, Lazzari, Sebastiani)
3
"Sonnambulismo" - Canton
(Luigi Schiavone, Enrico Ruggeri)
4
"Notte di luna" - Valentino
(Sergio Basile)
5
"Principessa delle rose" - Ivano Calcagno
(Ivano Calcagno)
6
"Lei balla sola" - Fabio Vanni
(Franca Poli, Elisabetta Paselli)
7
"Walkin'" - Dhuo
(Mike Loghan, Bruno Bergonzi)
8
"Acqua alta in piazza San Marco" - Giampiero Artegiani
(Giampiero Artegiani, Marcello Marrocchi)
"La Fenice" - Santandrea
(Riccardo Cocciante, Santandrea)
  • Winner of the Critics Award - Newcomers' section
"I'm in Love With You" - Luigi Sutera
(Luigi Sutera)
"Madame" - Rodolfo Banchelli
(Rodolfo Banchelli, Angelo Valsiglio, D'Apruzzo)
"Mondorama" - Richter, Venturi & Murru
(Marcello Murru, Liliana Ritteri, Varo Venturi)
"Pomeriggio a Marrakech" - I Trilli
(Gian Piero Reverberi, Giuseppe Zullo, Michele Maisano, Roberto Della Casa)
"Quanto ti amo" - Collage
(Paolo Amerigo Cassella, Dario Farina)
"Se ti spogli" - Giorgia Fiorio
(Sergio Menegale, Renato Pareti)

Guests

Guests
Artist(s)Song(s)
Claudio Villa"Un amore così grande"
Queen"Radio Ga Ga"
Pippo Franco"Pinocchio chiò"
Paul Young"Love of the Common People"
Culture Club"Victims"
Bonnie Tyler"Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Bonnie Bianco & Pierre Cosso"Stay"
David Knopfler"Soul Kissing"
Randy Crawford"Why"
José Luis Rodríguez"Due come noi"
"Europe"
Gilbert Montagné"Just For Tonight"

Notes and References

  1. Book: Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. 8863462291.
  2. News: Non solo Rai: Quattro serate con Baudo, Oxa e le altre TV. 2 June 2015. La Repubblica. 23 February 1994. 35.