Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960


Italy was represented by Renato Rascel, with the song '"Romantica", at the 1960 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 29 March in London. Broadcaster RAI chose the winning song from the 1960 Sanremo Music Festival as their Eurovision entry: the song had been performed twice at Sanremo and Rascel was chosen over Tony Dallara as the performer.
"Romantica" was less successful internationally after the contest than the two previous Italian Eurovision entries, although a cover version by Dalida topped the French singles chart for a week.

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Renato Rascel performed 12th in the running order, following Germany and preceding eventual contest winners France. Although there was no definite rule yet in place regarding length of song, European Broadcasting Union guidelines recommended that ideally songs should be no more than 3 minutes 30 seconds in duration. Italy seemed to have ignored the advice, as "Romantica" timed in at 4 minutes 20 seconds. At the close of the voting "Romantica" had received 5 points, placing Italy joint 8th of the 13 entries.

Voting

Every country had a jury of ten people. Every jury member could give one point to his or her favourite song.

Points awarded to Italy

Points awarded by Italy