# Sanremo Music Festival 1972

The Sanremo Music Festival 1972 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1972), officially the 22nd Italian Song Festival (22º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 22nd annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 24 and 26 February 1972. It was broadcast by Programma Nazionale and was the last edition to be broadcast in black and white.
The show was presented by Mike Bongiorno, assisted by actors Sylva Koscina and Paolo Villaggio. Vittorio Salvetti served as artistic director. From this edition it was abolished the competition rule, established in 1959, which prescribed a double performance by two different artists or groups for every song.
The winner of the festival was Nicola Di Bari with the song "I giorni dell'arcobaleno", with which he went on to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1972.

## Participants and results

Participants and results :
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) | Rank |
| "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" – Nicola Di Bari (Nicola Di Bari, Dalmazio Masini, Piero Pintucci) | 1 |
| "Come le viole" – Peppino Gagliardi (Peppino Gagliardi, Gaetano Amendola) | 2 |
| "Il re di denari" – Nada (Claudio Mattone, Franco Migliacci) | 3 |
| "Vado a lavorare" – Gianni Morandi (Franco Migliacci, Petaluma, Marcello Marrocchi, Vittorio Tariciotti) | 4 |
| "Non voglio innamorarmi mai" - Gianni Nazzaro (Moreno Signorini, Giancarlo Bigazzi) | 5 |
| "Jesahel" - Delirium (Oscar Prudente, Ivano Fossati) | 6 |
| "Montagne verdi" - Marcella Bella (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gianni Bella) | 7 |
| "Piazza Grande" - Lucio Dalla (Lucio Dalla, Rosalino Cellamare, Gianfranco Baldazzi, Sergio Bardotti) | 8 |
| "Gira l'amore (Caro bebè)" – Gigliola Cinquetti (Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace) | 9 |
| "Ti voglio" - Donatello (Ricky Gianco, Gian Pieretti) | 10 |
| "Un diadema di ciliegie" - Ricchi e Poveri (Romano Bertola) | 11 |
| "Mediterraneo" - Milva (Luigi Albertelli, Enrico Riccardi) | 12 |
| "Se non fosse fra queste mie braccia lo inventerei" - Lara Saint Paul (Elide Suligoj e Luciano Beretta) | 13 |
| "Un calcio alla città" - Domenico Modugno (Domenico Modugno, Mario Castellacci, Riccardo Pazzaglia) | 14 |
| "Amici mai" - Rita Pavone (Caviri, Massimo Cantini) | Eliminated |
| "Ci sono giorni" - Pino Donaggio (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Donaggio) | Eliminated |
| "Ciao amico ciao" - Aguaviva (Memo Remigi, Cristiano Minellono) | Eliminated |
| "Era bello il mio ragazzo" - Anna Identici (Gianni Guarnieri, Pier Paolo Preti) | Eliminated |
| "Forestiero" - Michele (Stefano Scandolara, Sergio Bardotti, Camillo and Corrado Castellari) | Eliminated |
| "Il mio cuore se ne va" - Carla Bissi (Memo Remigi, Spiker) | Eliminated |
| "L'uomo e il cane" - Fausto Leali (Fausto Leali, Milena Cantù) | Eliminated |
| "La foresta selvaggia" - Marisa Sacchetto (Paolo Limiti, Claudio Cavallaro) | Eliminated |
| "Per amore ricomincerei" - Delia (Marisa Terzi, Alberto Salerno, Ciro Dammicco) | Eliminated |
| "Portami via" - Angelica (Mario Mellier, Luciana Medini) | Eliminated |
| "Preghiera" - Tony Cucchiara (Tony Cucchiara) | Eliminated |
| "Rimpianto" - Bobby Solo (Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli) | Eliminated |
| "Un gatto nel blu" - Roberto Carlos (Totò Savio, Giancarlo Bigazzi) | Eliminated |
| "Un viaggio in Inghilterra" - I Nuovi Angeli (Ricky Gianco, Gian Pieretti) | Eliminated |

## Broadcasts
### Local broadcast

All shows were broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio). The semi-finals was broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio) at 21:10 CET and on Secondo Programma (television) at 21:15 CET. The final was broadcast on Programma Nazionale and on Secondo Programma at 21:00 CET.

### International broadcasts

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
International broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 1972 :
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) |
| Chile | Canal 13 | Canal 13 | |
| Japan | NHK | NHK | Yutaka Ishida |
| United States | WNJU-TV | WNJU-TV | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Barcelona [es] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Girona [ca] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Huesca | |
| Spain | SER | Radio San Sebastián | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Zaragoza | |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | TV Beograd 1, TV Zagreb 1 | |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | TV Koper-Capodistria | |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | TV Ljubljana 1 [sl] | |