Note: Magazine in Italian. Google translator was used.
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An example to many that at the XVIII Sanremo Festival, more or less secret high finance, politics and legal disputes had more weight than songs. It began, in fact, with rumors of an alleged participation of Frank Sinatra in the "ATA operation"; it continued with Eartha Kitt's fight (anti-escalation) against Timi Yuro (pro-Westmoreland) and The Cowsills (friends of the Johnson house); and we ended up listening to the reasons of Don Backy against Celentano, and of Celentano against Don Backy.
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What is certain for the moment is that his friendship with Getty was not enough for Eartha Kitt to prevent his Sanremo adventure from being particularly unpleasant. There was, first of all, his clash with Timi Yuro (who has just returned from a series of favorite shows of the Johnson family). Both Yuro and the Cowsills have reproached her rather brightly for having "made rude" (as they say in our parts) to "Lady Bird". Then came Carlo Alberto Rossi, author of Che Vale Per Me, to accuse Eartha of having massacred the song.
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The juries really made a mess of distinguished personalities: on the first evening, they threw the Cowsills, I Rokes, Timi Yuro, Sacha Distel, Pino Donaggio and Nino Ferrer away
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Who Knows Who Knows? Two teams of pupils from Reggio Calabria and Lecce participate in this episode. Febo Conti will animate the program, which will propose a series of new riddles on “the scripted verbs”. Interverrano: Al Bano, who sings La hedge; Milva who will interpret a new piece entitled Canzone; Timi Yuro and the Cowsills complex complete the program.
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