Talk:Festival della canzone italiana
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[edit] Anyone willing to collaborate to improve this article?
- I think this article could be improved in several ways with the effort of a little group of volunteers. First of all the split between winners and newcomers winners (and its analogous for critics awards) doesn't work properly because the organizer of the contest change its rules almost every year. The basic idea is that expert, "veteran", artists compete separately from young or "junior" singers. However criteria to identify junior singers may vary from one edition to another. Also there have been years where singers at their first contest presence were separated from singers that had already partecipated but couldn't still be considered "veterans", thus yielding three different categories. This is the case of 1989, which had a section named "Nuovi" (New) and one named "Emergenti" (Emerging - thus not "new" but not veterans either). In that year Paola Turci was between "Emergenti" and won the Critics Award with "Bambini". This doesn't appear in our list because the list is limited to "newcomers" ("new").
- Furthermore there are many trivia about the festival. One concerns its invention: some people credit Amilcare Rambaldi (who later created the Premio Tenco), some others credit Pier Busseti.
- In the first years exhibitions took place while the audience had dinner, and waiters wandered through the tables. The emphasys was much more on the songs rather than on singers (something which is not so true today): in the first edition, for instance, there were 20 songs, sung by 3 singers altogether. In that edition Nilla Pizzi was both first (alone) and second (with Achille Togliani); the year later Nilla Pizzi was first, second and third. Also in early years, songs were recorded after the festival. There are many other trivias and info, but, considering the amount of work, I would like to create a little working group for this. Anyone? --Gennaro Prota 01:51, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
