Sanremo Music Festival 1981

The Sanremo Music Festival 1981 was the 31st annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia between 5 and 7 February 1981 and broadcast by Rai 1.

Sanremo Music Festival
31st edition (1981)
Dates	5 February 1981 (1st night) 6 February 1981 (2nd night) 7 February 1981 (3rd night)
Presenter(s)	Claudio Cecchetto and Eleonora Vallone, Nilla Pizzi
Broadcaster	Rai 1
Venue	Teatro Ariston
Overall competition
Entries	28 acts (28 songs)
Winner	Alice "Per Elisa"
Sanremo Music Festival chronology
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The show was hosted by Claudio Cecchetto, assisted by the actress Eleonora Vallone and by the singer Nilla Pizzi (two times winner of the Festival).[1]

The winner of the Festival was Alice with the song "Per Elisa".[1]

This was the first edition to be entirely broadcast on RAI, after eight years in which the live broadcast was restricted only to the final night of the festival.[1]

Massimo Troisi should have participated in the final night of the festival with three segments as a comedian, but just before to take the stage he decided not to appear because of the cuts of his monologues required by RAI executives.[1]

Participants and results

Participants and results[1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank
"Per Elisa" – Alice (Carla Bissi, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio)	1
"Maledetta Primavera" – Loretta Goggi (Paolo Amerigo Cassella, Totò Savio)	2
"Tu cosa fai stasera?" – Dario Baldan Bembo (Paolo Amerigo Cassella, Dario Baldan Bembo)	3
"Roma spogliata" – Luca Barbarossa (Luca Barbarossa)	4
"Sarà perché ti amo" – Ricchi e Poveri (Enzo Ghinazzi, Daniele Pace, Dario Farina)	5
"Hop hop somarello" – Paolo Barabani (Paolo Barabani, Enzo Ghinazzi, Gian Piero Reverberi)	6
"Ma chi te lo fa fare" - Marinella (Vito Pallavicini, Gian Pietro Felisatti)	7
" Su quel pianeta libero" - Michele Zarrillo (Michele Zarrillo, Totò Savio, Paolo Amerigo Cassella)	8
"Pensa per te" - Marcella (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gianni Bella)	9
"Midnight" - Passengers (Kim Arena, Felice Piccareta)	10
"Ancora" - Eduardo De Crescenzo (Franco Migliacci, Claudio Mattone)	Finalist
"Angela" - Leano Morelli (Manrico Mologni, Leano Morelli)	Finalist
"La barca non va più" - Orietta Berti (Bruno Lauzi, Pippo Caruso)	Finalist
"Blue (Tutto è blu)" - Sterling Saint Jacques (Pier Michele Bozzetti, Giuseppe Bozzetti, Vitaliano Caruso)	Finalist
"Caffè nero bollente" - Fiorella Mannoia (Mimmo Cavallo, Rosario De Cola)	Finalist
"Follow Me (Se amore vuoi)" – Carmen & Thompson ( Luciano Angeleri, Carmen & Thompson)	Finalist
"Io mi" – Stefano Tosi (Carlo D’Apruzzo, Mirko Filistrucchi, Stefano Tosi)	Finalist
"Non posso perderti" – Bobby Solo (Danilo Ciotti, Roberto Satti)	Finalist
"Questo amore non si tocca" – Gianni Bella (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gianni Bella)	Finalist
"I ragazzi che si amano" – Collage (Claudio Daiano, Angelo Valsiglio, Paolo Masala)	Finalist
"Amore mio" – Enzo Malepasso (Depsa, Enzo Malepasso)	Eliminated
"Bianca stella" – Sebastiano Occhino (Sebastiano Occhino, Luigi Albertelli)	Eliminated
"Che brutto affare" – Jo Chiarello (Franco Califano, Angelo Varano)	Eliminated
"Guerriero" – Opera (Antonello Barilà)	Eliminated
"Mille volte ti amo" – Umberto Napolitano (Umberto Napolitano)	Eliminated
"Toccami" – Tom Hooker (Renato Brioschi, Massimo Chiodi)	Eliminated
"Tulilemble" – Domenico Mattia (Gian Pietro Felisatti)	Eliminated
"Un’isola alle Hawaii" – Franco Fasano (Franco Fasano, Depsa)	Eliminated

Guests

Guests [1]
Artist(s)	Song(s)
Lio	"Amoureux solitaires"
Alberto Sordi	"E va'... E va'..."
Charles Aznavour	"Poi passa"
Milva	"La Rossa"
Bad Manners	"Lorraine"
Hall & Oates	"Private Eyes"
Dire Straits	"Tunnel of Love" "Romeo and Juliet"
Robert Palmer	"Johnny and Mary"
Barry White	"Just the Way You Are"

References

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