Rector wins the 1981 Festivalbar
The winning song of the 1981 edition of the Festivalbar was “Donatella” by Rettore
Also competing were:
Marcella with “Foreign Song”
Ron with “At the center of music”
Gianna Nannini with “Come Boy”
Alberto Fortis with “September”
Viola Valentino with “Popular Day”
Rich and Poor with “I fall in love with you”
Walter Foini with “I’m not coming back”
Nada with “Tell me that you love me that you love me that you love that you love only me”
Marco Ferradini with “Slave without Chains”
Vasco Rossi with “We are only us”
Riccardo Fogli with “Melancholy”
Pooh with “Who will stop the music”
Umberto Tozzi with “Pink Night”
Ivan Cattaneo with “A polka-dotted zebra”
Loredana Berté with “Lullaby”
Lucio Dalla with “Call me in twenty years”
Eugenio Finardi with “Patrizia”
The Festivalbar was a summer event that took place every year from 1964 to 2007. Created by Vittorio Salvetti, it was initially intended to reward the most “popular” song on jukeboxes during the summer (each device was connected to a counter that recorded the data); later the ranking was established also considering radio and television airplay 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 Verona Arena.
