# Sanremo Music Festival 1971

The Sanremo Music Festival 1971 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1971), officially the 21st Italian Song Festival (21º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 21st annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 25 and 27 February 1971. The final night was broadcast by Programma Nazionale, while the first two nights were broadcast live only by radio. The show was presented by actors Carlo Giuffrè and Elsa Martinelli.
According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups. The winners of the festival were Nicola Di Bari and Nada with the song "Il cuore è uno zingaro".

## Participants and results

Participants and results :
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) | Rank |
| "Il cuore è uno zingaro" – Nicola Di Bari, Nada (Franco Migliacci, Claudio Mattone) | 1 |
| "Che sarà" – José Feliciano, Ricchi e Poveri (Franco Migliacci, Carlo Pes, Jimmy Fontana) | 2 |
| "4 marzo 1943" – Lucio Dalla, Equipe 84 (Lucio Dalla, Paola Pallottino) | 3 |
| "Com'è dolce la sera" – Donatello, Marisa Sannia (Luigi Albertelli, Enrico Riccardi) | 4 |
| "Sotto le lenzuola" – Adriano Celentano, Coro Alpino Milanese (Luciano Beretta, Miki Del Prete, Adriano Celentano) | 5 |
| "Come stai?" - Domenico Modugno, Carmen Villani (Riccardo Pazzaglia, Domenico Modugno) | 6 |
| "Bianchi cristalli sereni" - Don Backy, Gianni Nazzaro (Don Backy) | 7 |
| "13, storia d'oggi" - Albano Carrisi, Aguaviva (Vito Pallavicini, Albano Carrisi) | 8 |
| "Rose nel buio" – Gigliola Cinquetti, Ray Conniff (Lorenzo Pilat, Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace) | 9 |
| "Ninna nanna (cuore mio)" - Caterina Caselli, Dik Dik (Luigi Albertelli, Enrico Riccardi) | 10 |
| "L'ultimo romantico" - Pino Donaggio, Peppino di Capri (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Donaggio) | 11 |
| "La folle corsa" - Little Tony, Formula 3 (Mogol, Carlo Donida) | 12 |
| "Una storia" - Sergio Endrigo, New Trolls (Sergio Endrigo) | 13 |
| "Il sorriso, il paradiso" - Sergio Menegale, Wallace Collection (Sergio Menegale, Gianni D'Errico) | 14 |
| "Amsterdam" - Rosanna Fratello, Nino Ferrer (Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Pino Calvi) | Eliminated |
| "Andata e ritorno" - Maurizio & Fabrizio, Protagonisti (Donato Renzetti, Luigi Albertelli) | Eliminated |
| "I ragazzi come noi" - Paolo Mengoli, Mark e Martha (Ettore Lombardi, Gabriele Balducci) | Eliminated |
| "Il dirigibile" - Antoine, Anna Identici (Luigi Albertelli, Maurizio Fabrizio) | Eliminated |
| "Il viso di lei" - I Giganti, Fabio Trioli (Baracuda, Vince Tempera, Stefano Scandolara) | Eliminated |
| "Lo schiaffo" - Jordan, Gens (Giandiego Deriu, Vincenzo Barsanti) | Eliminated |
| "L'ora giusta" - Edda Ollari, Lorenza Visconti (Corrado Conti, Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Gianni Argenio) | Eliminated |
| "Non dimenticarti di me" - Nomadi, Mal (Mogol, Mario Lavezzi) | Eliminated |
| "Occhi bianchi e neri" - Pio, Mau Cristiani (Eros Sciorilli, Alberto Testa, Miki Del Prete) | Eliminated |
| "Santo Antonio Santo Francisco" - Piero Focaccia, Mungo Jerry (Vito Pallavicini, Paolo Conte) | Eliminated |

## Broadcasts
### Local broadcast

The final of the festival were broadcast on Programma Nazionale, while the semi-finals were broadcast on radio.

### 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 1971 :
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) |
| Canada | CTV | CTV | |
| Chile | Canal 13 | Canal 13 | |
| Israel | IBA | Israeli Television | |
| Japan | NHK | NHK | Yutaka Ishida |
| South Korea | DBC | DBC | Lee Hae-seong |
| South Korea | MBC | MBC | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Barcelona [es] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Girona [ca] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Murcia [es] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio San Sebastián | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Sevilla [es] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Zaragoza | |