Canzone per te (1968 song)

"Canzone per te" ("A song for you"), written by Italian composer Sergio Endrigo and sung by Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos,[1] was the Italian entrant to and winner of the 1968 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.

This article is about the 1968 Sanremo Festival entrant. For the 1991 Eurovision entrant, see Canzone per te.

On the night of the contest, held in Sanremo, Italy, the song was performed by both Endrigo and Carlos.

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The piece has been the subject of numerous reinterpretations by other artists. In 1968 Mina recorded her own version in Italian and one in Spanish and in the same year Giorgio Carnini performed an instrumental version for his album Giorgio Carnini on the Hammond X-66 organ, also published in Turkey and Venezuela. Also in 1968 the Los Catinos group performed a Spanish version entitled Canción para tí, included in the 1991 album Canciones románticas.

In 1974 the Portuguese singer Amália Rodrigues performed it in Italian for her album Amalia in Italy. Other engravings in Italian were later made by Ornella Vanoni, Claudio Baglioni and Gianni Morandi. In 1989 Enrico Ruggeri recorded the song on his album Contacts; later, in a concert by him in 2005, he praised Endrigo by performing the piece.[2][3] In 1992 George Dalaras with Haris & Panos Katsimihas recorded a version of it on the LP Iparhi logos.[4]

In 2003 Orietta Berti recorded a version of her by publishing it in her album Emotion of the author. Elisa interpreted the piece at the Sanremo Festival 2010, to honor the Italian song in the world in the dedicated evening.[5] Simone Cristicchi proposes it at the Sanremo Festival 2013, in the "Sanremo Story" evening dedicated to the songs presented in the past at the event.[6]

Recordings

Sergio Franchi recorded an English-language version of this song ("I Wrote a Song For You") on his 1968 RCA Victor album Wine and Song.[7]

References
  1. "Italica - Sergio Endrigo - Canzone per te". 2014-05-21. Archived from the original on 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
  2. "CULTURA E SPETTACOLI | Il piccolo" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  3. "E in ricordo di Endrigo Enrico Ruggeri a Trieste canta «Canzone per te» - Il Piccolo". Archivio - Il Piccolo.
  4. "KATSIMIHAS HARIS & PANOS, DALARAS YORGOS- IPARHI LOGOS (1992)". Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  5. "Elisa Toffoli canta a Sanremo 2010".
  6. "Canzoni e accoppiamenti della serata "Sanremo Story" - Festival Sanremo 2013 - sdamy". Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  7. "Discogs - Music Database and Marketplace". www.discogs.com.


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