Sanremo Music Festival 1977

Sanremo Music Festival 1977
Dates
Semi-final 1	3 March 1977
Semi-final 2	4 March 1977
Final	5 March 1977
Host
Venue	Teatro Ariston Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)	Mike Bongiorno and Maria Giovanna Elmi
Host broadcaster	Rai 1
Vote
Number of entries	12
Winner	Homo Sapiens "Bella da morire"

Maria Giovanna Elmi and Mike Bongiorno hosting the final of the festival

The Sanremo Music Festival 1977 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1977), officially the 27th Italian Song Festival (27º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 27th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 3 and 5 March 1977. It was the first edition not to take place at the Sanremo Casino, with Ariston going on to become the stable venue of the event.

The first two nights were broadcast live by radio and presented by Maria Giovanna Elmi, while the final night was broadcast by Rai 1 and presented by Elmi together with Mike Bongiorno.^[1]

Rules of this edition consisted a "head to head" mechanism between two singers at a time. A jury, composed of 25 members, was located immediately under the stage and had to express the vote for a singer or another.^[1] The winner of the festival was the group Homo Sapiens with the song "Bella da morire".^[1]

Participants and results

Participants and results[1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank
"Bella da morire" – Homo Sapiens (Renato Pareti, Alberto Salerno)	1
"Tu mi rubi l'anima" – Collage (Gabriella Padovan, Antonello de Sanctis)	2
"Monica" – I Santo California (Paolo Pinna, Giacomo Simonelli, Elio Palumbo)	3
"Miele" – Il Giardino dei Semplici (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Totò Savio)	Semi-finalist
"Gran Premio" – Albatros (Michelle Vasseur, Vito Pallavicini, Toto Cutugno)	Semi-finalist
"Io ti porterei" - Leano Morelli (Leano Morelli)	Semi-finalist
"Dedicato a te" - Santino Rocchetti (Santino Rocchetti, Andrea Lo Vecchio)	Finalist
"E invece con te" - Daniela Davoli (Daniela Davoli, Michele Zarrillo)	Finalist
"Con te ci sto" – Umberto Napolitano (Umberto Napolitano)	Finalist
"Ma perché" - Matia Bazar (Carlo Marrale, Piero Cassano, Aldo Stellita)	Finalist
"Oh Carmela" - Donatella Rettore (Donatella Rettore, Claudio Rego)	Finalist
"Tesoro mio" - La Strana Società (Luigi Albertelli, Corrado Conti, Franco Cassano)	Finalist

References

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