Sanremo Music Festival 1981

The Sanremo Music Festival 1981 was the 31st annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia between 5 and 7 February 1981 and broadcast by Rai 1.

Sanremo Music Festival
31st edition (1981)
Dates5 February 1981 (1st night)
6 February 1981 (2nd night)
7 February 1981 (3rd night)
Presenter(s)Claudio Cecchetto
and Eleonora Vallone, Nilla Pizzi
BroadcasterRai 1
VenueTeatro Ariston
Overall competition
Entries28 acts (28 songs)
WinnerAlice
"Per Elisa"
Sanremo Music Festival chronology
← 1981 →

The show was hosted by Claudio Cecchetto, assisted by the actress Eleonora Vallone and by the singer Nilla Pizzi (two times winner of the Festival).[1]

The winner of the Festival was Alice with the song "Per Elisa".[1]

This was the first edition to be entirely broadcast on RAI, after eight years in which the live broadcast was restricted only to the final night of the festival.[1]

Massimo Troisi should have participated in the final night of the festival with three segments as a comedian, but just before to take the stage he decided not to appear because of the cuts of his monologues required by RAI executives.[1]

Participants and results
Participants and results[1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) Rank
"Per Elisa" – Alice
(Carla Bissi, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio)		 1
"Maledetta Primavera" – Loretta Goggi
(Paolo Amerigo Cassella, Totò Savio)		 2
"Tu cosa fai stasera?" – Dario Baldan Bembo
(Paolo Amerigo Cassella, Dario Baldan Bembo)		 3
"Roma spogliata" – Luca Barbarossa
(Luca Barbarossa)		 4
"Sarà perché ti amo" – Ricchi e Poveri
(Enzo Ghinazzi, Daniele Pace, Dario Farina)		 5
"Hop hop somarello" – Paolo Barabani
(Paolo Barabani, Enzo Ghinazzi, Gian Piero Reverberi)		 6
"Ma chi te lo fa fare" - Marinella
(Vito Pallavicini, Gian Pietro Felisatti)		 7
" Su quel pianeta libero" - Michele Zarrillo
(Michele Zarrillo, Totò Savio, Paolo Amerigo Cassella)		 8
"Pensa per te" - Marcella
(Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gianni Bella)		 9
"Midnight" - Passengers
(Kim Arena, Felice Piccareta)		 10
"Ancora" - Eduardo De Crescenzo
(Franco Migliacci, Claudio Mattone)		 Finalist
"Angela" - Leano Morelli
(Manrico Mologni, Leano Morelli) 		Finalist
"La barca non va più" - Orietta Berti
(Bruno Lauzi, Pippo Caruso) 		Finalist
"Blue (Tutto è blu)" - Sterling Saint Jacques
(Pier Michele Bozzetti, Giuseppe Bozzetti, Vitaliano Caruso)		 Finalist
"Caffè nero bollente" - Fiorella Mannoia
(Mimmo Cavallo, Rosario De Cola)		 Finalist
"Follow Me (Se amore vuoi)" – Carmen & Thompson
( Luciano Angeleri, Carmen & Thompson)		 Finalist
"Io mi" – Stefano Tosi
(Carlo D’Apruzzo, Mirko Filistrucchi, Stefano Tosi)		 Finalist
"Non posso perderti" – Bobby Solo
(Danilo Ciotti, Roberto Satti)		 Finalist
"Questo amore non si tocca" – Gianni Bella
(Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gianni Bella)		 Finalist
"I ragazzi che si amano" – Collage
(Claudio Daiano, Angelo Valsiglio, Paolo Masala)		 Finalist
"Amore mio" – Enzo Malepasso
(Depsa, Enzo Malepasso)		 Eliminated
"Bianca stella" – Sebastiano Occhino
(Sebastiano Occhino, Luigi Albertelli)		 Eliminated
"Che brutto affare" – Jo Chiarello
(Franco Califano, Angelo Varano) 		Eliminated
"Guerriero" – Opera
(Antonello Barilà)		 Eliminated
"Mille volte ti amo" – Umberto Napolitano
(Umberto Napolitano)		 Eliminated
"Toccami" – Tom Hooker
(Renato Brioschi, Massimo Chiodi)		 Eliminated
"Tulilemble" – Domenico Mattia
(Gian Pietro Felisatti)		 Eliminated
"Un’isola alle Hawaii" – Franco Fasano
(Franco Fasano, Depsa)		 Eliminated

Guests
Guests [1]
Artist(s) Song(s)
Lio "Amoureux solitaires"
Alberto Sordi "E va'... E va'..."
Charles Aznavour "Poi passa"
Milva "La Rossa"
Bad Manners "Lorraine"
Hall & Oates "Private Eyes"
Dire Straits "Tunnel of Love"
"Romeo and Juliet"
Robert Palmer "Johnny and Mary"
Barry White "Just the Way You Are"

References
  1. Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
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