I giorni dell'arcobaleno

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I Giorni Dell'Arcobaleno
Eurovision Song Contest 1972 entry
Country Italy
Artist(s) Michele Scommegna
As Nicola di Bari
Language Italian
Composer(s) Piero Pintucci, Nicola di Bari
Lyricist(s) Dalmazio Masini
Place 6th
Points 92
Lyrics from Diggiloo Thrush


"I giorni dell'arcobaleno" (English translation: "The Days Of The Rainbow") was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, performed in Italian by Nicola di Bari.

The song is a nostalgic ballad, with di Bari singing to a woman about her childhood, which she gave up by taking a lover at a very young age; and while this action, being a passage into adulthood, made her appear "cool" before her more innocent peers and transformed her into a self-assured young woman, she did in fact forsake what was - or could have been - "the best time" of her life.

The song was performed twelfth on the night (following Austria's Milestones with Falter im Wind and preceding Yugoslavia's Tereza with Muzika I Ti). At the close of voting, it had received 92 points, placing 6th in a field of 18.

It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1973 Contest by Massimo Ranieri with "Chi sarĂ ".