Sanremo Music Festival 1965

The festival's organisers, Società ATA, received 242 song submissions from music publishers. An advisory commission lead by composer Carlo Savina and composed of seven journalists narrowed down the list of submissions to thirty-five. ATA then selected twenty-four for the competition. After the shortlist of twenty-four entries was decided, the record label RCA Records decided to withdraw their participation in protest of the exclusion of a number of submissions from the list meant to be performed by RCA artists, particularly Dalida, Alain Barrière, Riccardo Del Turco, Louiselle and . This forced the withdrawal of Little Tony, Neil Sedaka, Jimmy Fontana, Paul Anka, Gino Paoli and from the competition, along with their respective entries. Among the competing Italian artists were and , who were given the right to participate after winning the 1964 edition of the Castrocaro Music Festival for newcomer artists. Initially the American singer Dionne Warwick and the English singer Julie Rogers were announced among the list of competing foreign artists, set to perform "" and "" respectively, but both withdrew from the competition before rehearsals. Rogers was replaced by Kiki Dee, while Dusty Springfield took up "" as her second song in Warwick's absence. == Contest overview ==

, Timi Yuro, Iva Zanicchi, Dusty Springfield and Audrey in the venue's dressing room The Sanremo Music Festival 1965 consisted of three live shows, two-semi-finals held on 28 and 29 January 1965 and a final held on 30 January. Each night consisted of twelve songs performed twice, once by an Italian artist and once by an artist of foreign origin. All shows were presented by Mike Bongiorno, who was assisted by Grazia Maria Spina. The television production was directed by . In the final, all of the Italian artists performed in the first half of the show, followed by the foreign artists in the second half. Additionally, around forty voting ballots were taken from spectators in the venue. In the final, the regional jury was composed of fifteen cities, with four more juries set up in two schools, a university and a recruit training centre. The cities were chosen by random draw and differed in each show. == Broadcasts ==

Local broadcasts The final was broadcast on Programma Nazionale and on Secondo Programma at 21:00 CET.. Only part of the semi-finals were broadcast on Secondo Programma (television) starting at 21:15, while they were broadcast in full on Secondo Programma (radio) starting at 21:10 CET. International broadcasts The final was broadcast via the Eurovision network in sixteen other countries. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. } ==Notes==