"Romantica" was the Italian

Italy

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 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960

Eurovision Song Contest 1960

The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth in the series, and was held on 29 March 1960 in London. France's win this year was their second in the contest....

, performed in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 by Renato Rascel

Renato Rascel

Renato Ranucci, in art Renato Rascel was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972...

. The song was performed twelfth on the night, following Germany

Germany

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's Wyn Hoop

Wyn Hoop

Wyn Hoop is a German singer, best known for his participation in the 1960 Eurovision Song Contest....

 with "Bonne nuit ma chérie

Bonne Nuit Ma Chérie

"Bonne nuit ma chérie" was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960, performed in German by Wyn Hoop....

" and preceding France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

's Jacqueline Boyer

Jacqueline Boyer

Jacqueline Boyer is a French singer and actress, the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer....

 with "Tom Pillibi

Tom Pillibi

"Tom Pillibi" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1960, sung in French by Jacqueline Boyer. This was France's second victory in the first five years of the Contest....

". At the close of voting, it had received 5 points, placing it 8th in a field of 13.

The song span three foreign versions in 1960. Dalida

Dalida

Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...

's version topped the French charts for a week.

The Estonian

Estonian language

Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities...

 version by the Estonian Radio

Eesti Rahvusringhääling

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 Male Quartet entitled "Romantika" altered the original by skipping the introduction

Introduction (music)

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. For two seasons of the Estonian hit comedy talk show "Rahva Oma Kaitse", the Estonian version was featured as the end title piece. One of the editors, Mart Juur commented:"Honestly, meanwhile we haven't heard anything of the worth of Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...

's "No No Song

No No Song

Ringo Starr's cover of Hoyt Axton and David Jackson's "The No No Song" was included on his 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. It was a number-one hit in Canada and a number-three hit in the US. The song describes progressive attempts to sell Colombian marijuana, Spanish cocaine and Tennessean moonshine...

" and "Romantika" by the Male Quartet of the Estonian Radio. Look, there was a time when we used the so-called "bozo

Bozo

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" songs, but recently we've started to pay attention at the quality of our featured music!"

Jane Morgan

Jane Morgan

Jane Morgan is an American popular singer, specializing in traditional pop music. Her first broad fame came in Europe....

 recorded an English version of the song just after the contest, in 1960.

In the late 80's, early 90's, the Norwegian vintage band "Lollipop" performed and released a version of Romantica. The song was performed by the Norwegian singer, Tor Endresen

Tor Endresen

Tor Lars Oskar Endresen is a Norwegian singer and composer.He has entered the national Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest numerous times, but has only won it once, and represented Norway in the international final in 1997, where he came last with nul points.Endresen was part of a popular Norwegian...

 in Italian. "Lollipop" was a band that was constructed by Norwegian singer Rune Larsen

Rune Larsen

Rune Larsen is a Norwegian journalist, singer, musician, record producer and television presenter.He was born in Bergen. He made his stage debut in 1957, and his television debut in 1964. By that time he had already played with two bands, The White Shirts and The Black Diamonds, and rejected a...

 for a vintage musicshow in Norway

Norway

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. It became very successful with 30 episodes on TV and two tours and also CD rekleases of music from the period 1955 to 1965.

As the Italian representative

Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest

Italy participated in the Eurovision Song Contest frequently from 1956 to 1997. It was one of only seven countries that competed at the very first contest...

, "Romantica" was succeeded at the 1961 Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1961

The Eurovision Song Contest 1961 was the sixth Eurovision Song Contest. A total of sixteen countries took part in the Contest, including the three debuting countries: Finland, Spain, and Yugoslavia. It was held on 18 March 1961 and was the first to take place on a Saturday night, a tradition that...

 by Betty Curtis

Betty Curtis

Betty Curtis was an Italian singer active from 1957 to 2004.The song "Al di là" performed by her with Luciano Tajoli won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1961...

 with "Al di là

Al Di Là

"Al di là" is a popular Italian song. "Al di là" was one of Betty Curtis' biggest hits in Italy. The song was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961, performed in Italian by Curtis at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, on March 18, 1961, after Curtis had won the 1961...

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