Bobby Solo wins the Festivalbar 1964

Gino Paoli wins the Festivalbar 1991

The winning song of the 1991 Festivalbar edition was Gino Paoli’s “four friends”

They were also competing:

Francesco Baccini – here when

RAF – We are alone in the immense empty that is there

Ligabue – Marlon Brando is always him

Stadium – generation of phenomena

Giorgio Faletti – Ulula

Francesco Salvi – Ignorant Discomix

Mario Castelnuovo – How will my son be like

Claudio Bisio with Rocco Tanica – Raput (breathless)

Mariella Nava and Renato Zero – Crescendo

Paolo Vallesi – The friends

The Festivalbar was a summer event that took place every year from 1964 to 2007. Designed by Vittorio Salvetti, it was initially designed to reward the most “popular” song in the Juke-Box during the summer (each device was connected a meter that detected the data); Later the ranking was also established considering the radio and television passages and sales data. The winning song was announced in September, with a public evening held in Asiago from 1964 to 1974 (with the exceptions of 1965, when it was held in Milan, and 1966 and 1967, when it was held in Salice Terme), and then from 1975 at the Arena di Verona.