Cantagiro

Cantagiro was an Italian summer festival held from 1962 to 1972 and 1990 to 1993. It featured three categories, A for famous artists, B for newcomers and C for groups. The creator of the competition was Ezio Radaelli. The name of the festival was a reference to the bicycle race Giro d'Italia, and, as the Giro, Cantagiro was organized as a stage race consisting of eleven or twelve daily stages, each set in a different city.[1][2][3] A peculiar characteristic of the festival was that, while traveling between one stage and the other, singers were required to travel in an open car, to be at the disposal of the crowd of fans, otherwise risking fines or disqualification from the competition; accordingly the travel usually resolved into a huge crowd, with fans waiting their idols in every corner of the path.[1][4]

The festival was the main subject of two musicarello films, Urlo contro melodia nel Cantagiro 1963 (1964) and La più bella coppia del mondo (1967).[5]

Winners

Cantagiro

Year Group A Group B Group C
1962 Adriano Celentano - "Stai lontana da me" Donatella Moretti - "L'abbraccio"
1963 Peppino Di Capri - "Non ti credo" Michele - "Se mi vuoi lasciare"
1964 Gianni Morandi - "In ginocchio da te" Paolo Mosca - "La voglia dell'estate"
1965 Rita Pavone - "Lui" Mariolino Barberis - "Il duca della luna"
1966 Gianni Morandi - "Notte di ferragosto" Mariolino Barberis - "Spiaggia d'argento" Equipe 84 - "Io ho in mente te"
1967 N/A Massimo Ranieri - "Pietà per chi ti ama" The Motowns - "Prendi la chitarra e vai"
1968 Caterina Caselli - "Il volto della vita" Showmen - "Un'ora sola ti vorrei"
1969 Massimo Ranieri - "Rose rosse" Rossano - "Ti voglio tanto bene"
1970 N/A Paolo Mengoli - "Mi piaci da morire"
1971
1972 N/A FM2 - "Chérie chérie" Gens - "Per chi"

Nuovo Cantagiro

Year Winner
1990 Paola Turci - "Frontiera"
1991 Francesca Alotta - "Chiamata urgente"
1992 Aleandro Baldi - "Il sole"
1993 Bracco Di Graci - "Guardia o ladro"

References

  1. 1 2 Felice Liperi. Storia della canzone italiana. RAI-ERI, 1999. ISBN 8839710647.
  2. Aldo Grasso. Radio e televisione. Vita e Pensiero, 2000. ISBN 8834305787.
  3. Gianfranco Salvatore. L'arcobaleno: storia vera di Lucio Battisti vissuta da Mogol e dagli altri che c'erano. Giunti Editore, 2000. pp. 16–17. ISBN 8809018052.
  4. Claudia Provvedini (16 October 2005). "Morto Ezio Radaelli inventore del Cantagiro e «patron» di Sanremo". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  5. Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.


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