# Sanremo Music Festival 1970

The Sanremo Music Festival 1970 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1970), officially the 20th Italian Song Festival (20º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 20th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 26 and 28 February 1970. The final night was broadcast by Programma Nazionale, while the first two nights were broadcast live only by radio. The show was presented by Nuccio Costa, assisted by the actors Enrico Maria Salerno and Princess Ira von Fürstenberg.
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 Adriano Celentano and Claudia Mori with the song "Chi non lavora non fa l'amore".

## Participants and results

Participants and results :
| Song, performing artists and writer(s) | Rank |
| "Chi non lavora non fa l'amore" – Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori (Luciano Beretta, Miki Del Prete, Adriano Celentano, Nando De Luca) | 1 |
| "La prima cosa bella" – Nicola Di Bari, Ricchi e Poveri (Nicola Di Bari, Mogol) | 2 |
| "L'arca di Noè" – Sergio Endrigo, Iva Zanicchi (Sergio Endrigo, Luis Bacalov) | 3 |
| "Eternità" – Ornella Vanoni, I Camaleonti (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Claudio Cavallaro) | 4 |
| "La spada nel cuore" – Patty Pravo, Little Tony (Mogol, Carlo Donida) | 5 |
| "Romantico blues" - Gigliola Cinquetti, Bobby Solo (Lorenzo Pilat, Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace) | 6 |
| "Pa’ diglielo a ma’" - Rosalino Cellamare, Nada (Jimmy Fontana, Franco Migliacci) | 7 |
| "Sole pioggia e vento" - Luciano Tajoli, Mal (Elio Isola, Mogol) | 8 |
| "Tipitipitì" – Orietta Berti, Mario Tessuto (Lorenzo Pilat, Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace) | 9 |
| "L’amore è una colomba" - Gianni Nazzaro, Marisa Sannia (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Totò Savio) | 10 |
| "Taxi" - Antoine, Anna Identici (Gianni Argenio, Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri) | 11 |
| "Hippy" - Fausto Leali, Carmen Villani (Fausto Leali, Luciano Beretta) | 12 |
| "Canzone blu" - Tony Renis, Sergio Leonardi (Tony Renis, Mogol, Alberto Testa) | 13 |
| "Re di cuori" - Nino Ferrer, Caterina Caselli (Claudio Cavallaro, Gaetano Savio, Giancarlo Bigazzi) | 14 |
| "Accidenti" -Rocky Roberts, Il Supergruppo (Ricky Gianco, Gian Pieretti) | Eliminated |
| "Ahi ahi ragazzo!" - Rita Pavone, Valeria Mongardini (Umberto Napolitano, Franco Migliacci) | Eliminated |
| "Ahi! Che male che mi fai" - Ragazzi della via Gluck, Paolo Mengoli (Toto Cutugno, Cristiano Minellono) | Eliminated |
| "Che effetto mi fa" - Pino Donaggio, Sandie Shaw (Pino Donaggio, Cristiano Minellono) | Eliminated |
| "Ciao anni verdi" - Rosanna Fratello, Domodossola (Nando De Luca, Adriano Celentano) | Eliminated |
| "Io mi fermo qui" - Donatello, Dik Dik (Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli) | Eliminated |
| "L’addio" - Michele, Lucia Rizzi (Andrea Lo Vecchio, Plinio Maggi, Sergio Bardotti) | Eliminated |
| "La stagione di un fiore" - Emiliana, Gens (Salvatore Ruisi, Luciano Rossi) | Eliminated |
| "Nevicava a Roma" - Renato Rascel, Pio (Roberto Negri, P. Verdecchia, Miki Del Prete, Luciano Beretta) | Eliminated |
| "Occhi a mandorla" - Rossano, Dori Ghezzi (Piero Soffici, Vito Pallavicini) | Eliminated |
| "Ora vivo" - Francesco Banti, Dino Drusiani (Herbert Pagani, Enzo Favata) | Eliminated |
| "Serenata" - Claudio Villa, Tony Del Monaco (Enrico Polito, Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gaetano Savio) | Eliminated |

## Broadcasts
### Local broadcast

All shows were broadcast on Italian Television and Secondo Programma, beginning at 22:00 CET (21:00 UTC).

### 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 1970 :
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) |
| Argentina | Radio Rivadavia | Radio Rivadavia | Cacho Fontana |
| Australia | Nine Network | GTV-9 | |
| Brazil | Rede Tupi | TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro | |
| Brazil | Rede Tupi | TV Tupi São Paulo | |
| Brazil | Rede Tupi | TV Brasília | |
| Brazil | Rede Tupi | TV Paraná | |
| Brazil | Rede Tupi | TV Piratini | |
| Chile | Canal 13 | Canal 13 | |
| Czechoslovakia | ČsR [cs; sk] | Radio Praha | |
| Iceland | RÚV | Sjónvarpið | |
| Portugal | RTP | RTP | |
| Romania | TVR | Programul 1 | |
| Spain | TVE | TVE 1 | José Luis Uribarri |
| Spain | SER | Radio Castellón [es] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Girona [ca] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Las Palmas | |
| Spain | SER | Radio San Sebastián | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Valladolid [es] | |
| Spain | SER | Radio Zaragoza | |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | Televizija Beograd | |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | Televizija Ljubljana [sl] | |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | Televizija Zagreb | |