Sanremo Music Festival 1979
{{short description|Italian song contest (29th edition)}}
{{Infobox song contest
| name = Sanremo Music Festival
| year = 1979
| competing = artists
| logo =
| alt =
| semi1 = 11 January 1979
| semi2 = 12 January 1979
| semi3 =
| semi4 =
| final = 13 January 1979
| presenters = Mike Bongiorno
and Anna Maria Rizzoli
| artistic director = Gianni Ravera
| musdirector =
| host = Rai 1
| venue = Teatro Ariston
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
| entries1 = 22
| vote1 =
| winner1 = Mino Vergnaghi
"Amare"
}}
The Sanremo Music Festival 1979 ({{langx|it|Festival di Sanremo 1979}}), officially the 29th Italian Song Festival ({{lang|it|29º Festival della canzone italiana}}), was the 29th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 11 and 13 January 1979, and broadcast by {{lang|it|Radiotelevisione italiana|i=no}} (RAI). The show was presented by Mike Bongiorno, assisted by the actress Anna Maria Rizzoli.{{cite book|last=Eddy Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|publisher=Panini Comics, 2009|isbn=8863462291}}
The winner of the festival was Mino Vergnaghi with the song "Amare".
Participants and results
| class="plainrowheaders wikitable" |
| colspan="3"|Participants and results |
|---|
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)
! Rank |
| scope="row"|"Amare" – Mino Vergnaghi (Piero Finà, Sergio Ortone) |style="text-align:center;"|1 |
| scope="row"|"Barbara" – Enzo Carella (Enzo Carella, Pasquale Panella) |style="text-align:center;"|2 |
| scope="row"|"Quell'attimo in più" – I Camaleonti (Mario Lavezzi, Oscar Avogadro, Daniele Pace) |style="text-align:center;"|3 |
| scope="row"| "La gente parla" – Collage (Antonello De Sanctis, Sandro Di Nardo, Marcello Marrocchi) |style="text-align:center;"|4 |
| scope="row"|"Sarà un fiore" – Enrico Beruschi (Daniele Pace, Corrado Conti, Mario Panzeri) |style="text-align:center;"|5 |
| scope="row"|"A me mi piace vivere alla grande" – Franco Fanigliulo (Oscar Avogadro, Riccardo Borghetti, Franco Fanigliulo, Daniele Pace) |style="text-align:center;"|6 |
| scope="row"|"New York" – Lorella Pescerelli (Franco Migliacci, Flavio Paulin) |style="text-align:center;"|7 |
| scope="row"|"C'era un'atmosfera" – Kim & The Cadillacs (Aldo Stellita, Piero Cassano) |style="text-align:center;"|8 |
| scope="row"| "Bimba mia" – Umberto Napolitano (Umberto Napolitano) |style="text-align:center;"|9 |
| scope="row"|"Tu fai schifo sempre" – Pandemonium (Angelo Giordano, Michele Paulicelli, Gianni Mauro) |style="text-align:center;"|10 |
| scope="row"| "’Nocciolino" – Antoine (Maurizio Piccoli) |style="text-align:center;"|11 |
| scope="row"| "Liana" – Grimm (Loreno Lazzarini) |style="text-align:center;"|12 |
| scope="row"| "Autunno cadono le pagine gialle" – Marinella (Roberto Ferri, Giancarlo Trombetti) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "Ayx Disco" – Ayx (Riccardo Galardini) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "Ciao Barbarella" –Ciro Sebastianelli (Ciro Sebastianelli, Daniele Pace,Oscar Avogadro) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "Grande mago" – Nicoletta Bauce (Nicoletta Bauce, Roberto Colombo) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "Il diario dei segreti" – Opera (Claudio Daiano, Giuseppe Adorno) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "Impazzirò" – Il était une fois (Pietro Civello, Basilivan) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "In due" – Michele Vicino (Giovanni Belfiore, Michele Vicino) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "La pioggia, il sole" – Roberta (Daniele Pace, Corrado Conti) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "Napule cagnarrà" – Massimo Abbate (Wanda Montanelli) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
| scope="row"| "Talismano nero" – Gianni Mocchetti (Manipoli e Gianni Mocchetti) |{{n/a|Eliminated}} |
Broadcasts
= Local broadcast =
The final night was broadcast by Rai 1, while the first two nights were broadcast live only by radio.
= International broadcast =
Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+International broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 1979 ! scope="col" | Country ! scope="col" | Broadcaster ! scope="col" | Channel(s) ! scope="col" | Commentator(s) ! scope="col" | {{abbr|Ref(s)|References}} |
| scope="row" | {{Flagu|Chile}}
| colspan="2" | Canal 13{{efn|Delayed broadcast on 26 January at 21:30 (CLST)}} | {{N/A |
|---|
| {{cite news |title=Programación - Canal 13 |trans-title=Programming - Channel 13 |work=Las Últimas Noticias |date=26 January 1979 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Czechoslovakia}}
| ČST
| ČST1{{efn|Delayed broadcast on 12 May at 23:30 (CEST)}}
| {{N/A|}}
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Luxembourg}}
| CLT
| {{lang|fr|RTL Télé-Luxembourg|i=unset}}{{efn|Delayed broadcast on 5 February at 21:00 (CET)}}
| {{N/A|}}
| {{cite news |title=Télé hebdo – lundi 5 février |trans-title=Weekly TV – Monday 5 February |url=https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/8gcmsqhmw/pages/39 |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=Luxemburger Wort |date=2 February 1979 |location=Luxembourg City, Luxembourg |language=de, fr}}
|}
Notes and references
=Notes=
{{notelist}}
=References=
{{Reflist}}
{{Sanremo Music Festival}}
Category:1979 in Italian television