The songs of “A record for the summer” 1968
The event was born from the idea of AFI, Associazione Fonografici Italiani, to promote the summer record market with a festival that presented the new releases of the various labels, as happened at the Sanremo Festival for the winter market. It was broadcast by RAI, and became a regular event until 1975, when it was suspended (and then resumed in other forms and with other titles).
Here we present the editions of the first “classic” series of “A Record for the Summer”, which was held from 1964 to 1975 inclusive.
“A Record for the Summer” 1968
1. Richard Del Turco, “July”
2. Orietta Berti, “Never fool yourself”
3. Franco IV and Franco I, “I wrote I love you in the sand”
4. Armando Savini, “Why You Made Me Fall in Love”
5. Wilma Goich, “Finally”
6. Robertino, “Play, play violin”
7. Caterina Caselli, “The Clock”
8. Louiselle, “The Cliff”
9. Tony Astarita, “Close Your Window”
10. Anna Marchetti, “Dominique’s Summer”
11. Pino Donaggio, “The Sun of the Night”
12. Gigliola Cinquetti, “Joseph in Pennsylvania”
Also in the finals were:
New Trolls, “Visions”
Le Orme, “Feel the Summer Returning”
Not in the final
Lucio Battisti, “Prisoner of the World”
Lucio Dalla, “And to Say I Love You”
Maurizio, “Five minutes and then…”
The Those, “I felt strange”
The Scooters, “If I Were King”
The data (performers, titles, placements) are taken, courtesy of the authors (Federico Pieri and Daniele Sgherri of Musica in Mostra), from “Un disco per l’Estate”, Ergo Sum Editrice, which collects all the covers of all the 45 rpm records of all the songs that participated in the “Disco Per l’Estate” between 1964 and 1975.
