From 1965 to 1969

After the success obtained the previous year Gigliola in 1965 is back to the Sanremo song contest singing with Connie Francis the song "Ho bisogno di vederti" by Ciampi -Ramsete. The song seems to show that the sixteen-year-old girl, that the previous year was too young to love, now has reached the maturity of adulthood. The love the song talks about is a "mature" love and both interpretations fit perfectly: Gigliola appears as the young girl deeply in love and Connie Francis as the mature woman who has equally no defense against such a powerful feeling. Connie Francis is one of the great female singers of this edition. Let's just quote a few others: Timi Yuro (the interpreter of "A chi"), Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Milva and, for the first time on stage, Ornella Vanoni and Iva Zanicchi. Gigliola is given as probable winner even for this edition and after the first evening of the contest "Ho bisogno di vederti" gains the first position. In the end, however, the winner will be Bobby Solo with the song "Se piangi, se ridi", but Gigliola doesn't get upset. "If I'd won again - she says - people would have said I'm a monster, not a professional artist". And Rodolfo D'Intino on Sorrisi e Canzoni writes: "Being defeated has given to Gigliola a more human dimension, now she can also lose, as her best colleagues like Mina or Rita Pavone". "Ho bisogno di vederti" will have too its share of international success, being translated into German ("Ich muss immer an dich denken"), French ("Dans l'èglise de lumière") and Spanish ("Necesito verte"). In 1965 Gigliola's success will touch every corner of the world. Right after the end of the song contest she travels to Spain, where, according to the press, finds her first fiancèe. The news will be immediately denied, but the press, in the following years, will constantly check on her, hoping to reveal, sooner or later, a secret love affair or an engagement. When she gets photographed with her discographer's son, again the press writes about her engagement. Another denial. Everybody wants to know if this young girl is secretly in love and if her candour is mostly a fake made up by the discographic industry. In due time, however, the audience and the media will understand that Gigliola is like many other teenage girls with no engagement whatsoever. Her busy schedule takes her to travel around all five continents with many successful tours but another task waits for her: her final examinations at the art school of her hometown. Let her tell us about this experience:
"Lemme touch ya, you' re so lucky!" - my schoolmates told me before the exam. The year before I had won three song contest: in Castrocaro, Sanremo and Copenaghen, I couldn't say I was an unlucky girl. But I feared that people thought I was taking the exam just as a form of advertisement for myself, that I didn't really care or even disregard it. During my oral examination the classroom was crowded with fans and curious people, like a thatre. I was pleased with that, so everybody could see that the tacher didn't use any particular regard towards me. I took the exam just for personal pride since I hate leaving things unfinished. The previous weeks I had studied twelve hours per day to regain all the time I had lost singing. During the third trimester I had almost never attended school: in April and May I had been in Paris, at the Olympia Theatre, a show every night, two on Thursdays and Saturays and three on Sundays. Afterwards I went to Japan.
It's Gigliola's first tour in the land of the Rising Sun, where she's already a star. Japanese people are crazy for her. It is said that during the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 the Japanese taxi-driver, to ask if their customers were Italian were saying "Non ho l'età ?". Gigliola's tour goes through Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Kokura, with her her mum Sara and the singer Luciano Tajoli, celebrating the 25th year of his career.
Gigliola goes on: "I had no more pages in my school diary for absences. My father, after a long discussion with my mother to find the right expression to justify them wrote every time they were made "for personal reasons". The director accepted them benevolently. I had made so many absences that I feared I wouldn't be allowed to take the final exam. I deem this experience one of the most beautiful in my life. I was much more satisfied in getting my diploma, than in winning the Sanremo song contest. Mostly because taking an exam costs much in terms of sweat and tiredness, while a song contest is, all things considered, just a game. I don't know why, but when I take an exam I get hungry. I remember that during the written exam in architecture - eight hours per day for a week in the classroom to prepare an architectural project - I wolfed down ten sandwiches and four bottles of coke per day. "How could you be so hungry? Lemme touch ya, you're so lucky!" - my schoolmates told me. There were taking medicines for their health and whispering prayers to pass the exam, I didn't. The situation didn't seem to me so that serious to require a divine intervention. Neither I pray to win a song contest. It would seem blasphemy to me. After the exams we went all together on a trip to Mt. Carega, a mountain near Verona, to ease our tension. We had a barbecue, drank a lot, sung and danced. Back home I found my grandmother's present: a bike with mother-of-pearl handles."
After the exams Gigliola is back to her role of international star. At the end of the year she travels to Spain again, after a South American tour, and there she starts turning her first movie. The chosen title is "Ho bisogno di vederti", but after her second victory at the Sanremo song contest it will be changed in "Dio, come ti amo". Since she couldn't probably be home for Christmas, during a few days' break she flies back to Verona to prepare the Christmas tree with her family. In the end however her job lets her free to pass Christmas Day with her parents and she does.

In 1966, before going back to Sanremo, Gigliola stars in a TV show called "Io, Gigliola". The show starts on January 8th (a Saturday evening) and lasts till January 22nd but has not the ordinary features of a Saturday Night Variety Show. Gigliola talks about herself, a teenage girl whose success came when she was still too young, and she's eager to make an evaluation of her career and her life. The show is like her own diary, to whom she entrusts her memories, enjoying herself and showing her irony. Gigliola sings her previous hits and two new songs: the Italian version of "I know a place" and the beautiful "Sfiorisci bel fiore" by Enzo Jannacci that will be recorded also in French with the title "Les filles et les roses". Moreover she dances, mimics Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe and receives important guests like Virna Lisi, Vittorio Gassman, Monica Vitti e Renato Rascel. Her partners are Ubaldo Lay, the famous Lieutnant Sheridan, who will sing for her as Romeo to Juliet and the band "Les Surfs".
On saturday 29th, a week after the end of the show, Gigliola takes again part to the Sanremo song contest. She gives a new image of herself, not following the clichè of the girl "too young to love" and demonstrating to her public her new maturity. Now she's a woman, ready to confess her love to a man saying "Dio, come ti amo" (My God, how much I love you). Author of the song is Domenico Modugno who has now a new opinion on this young girl. He even states he has written the song thinking of Gigliola's interpretation. Specialized press approve his choice "If Modugno should win again, all merit will go to Gigliola." - some newspaper will say.
1966 is a difficult year for the Sanremo song contest. Yè-yè style is highly fashionable and the jury is mostly formed by young people. It seems there's no hope for traditional melodic songs. Instead they will triumph.
Gigliola and Domenico Modugno will gain the fourth position in the first turn, the first position will go to Ornella Vanoni and Orietta Berti with "Io ti darò di più". Bobby Solo won't pass the first selection, as the well-known tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano, taking part to the contest for the first and last time. On the second evening of the contest Milva, Pino Donaggio and Iva Zanicchi will pass the selection, Adriano Celentano (with "Il ragazzo della Via Gluck"), Gino Paoli and the valid but unlucky interpreter Luciana Turina won't.
The elimination of all bands during the contest is not widely accepted. During the final selection, as the only remaining band ("I Ribelli") performs the public roars. However they will gain the last position. In the backstage some artists faint due to emotional stress and the showgirl Carla Puccini faints even on stage, a fake to draw attention to her, as will be revealed later on. Gigliola sings last, she wears a white dress with gold threads and her hair had been lenghtened with a frange toupet. It's a triumph. Te victory of "Dio, come ti amo" will be announced at the end of the evening.
After the announcement Modugno hugs Gigliola warmly and lifts her up. The movement of her skirt reveals her underwear and all photographers take immediately a shoot. The photo will travel all over the world. In Italy "Dio, come ti amo" will have much success in both versions, (the one by Gigliola and the one by Modugno). Europe will be quite another matter. The song, brought by Modugno to the European Song Contest, will gain the last position. The singer will get very angry and complain about irregularities in the vote of the jury but no proof of that will ever be found. Gigliola gains then the hard task to promote the song all over the world. It's a success. "Dio, come ti amo" will be recorded by her in several languages: French ("Mon Dieu, comme je t'aime"), Spanish ("Dios mio, como te quiero"), German (keeping the Italian title) and Japanese ("Aiwa kagirinaku").
The title of the song becomes also the title of the first movie in which Gigliola stars. It was quite usual in those year making a movie for every successful song, with its interpreter as main character. Gigliola had acted in other movies before, but "Dio, come ti amo" sees her for the first time as protagonist. She's a young swimmer from Neaples, secretly in love with her Spanish friend's fiancèe. Her partner is Mark Damon, who had formerly starred in some historical movies. In other roles some famous Italian actors as Nino Taranto, Raimondo Vianello, Carlo Croccolo and Antonella Della Porta. Gigliola sings many of her hits and in the end, when the two lovers meet at Neaples' airport, "Dio, come ti amo". At the end of the song, as in all love stories, they kiss and hug each other. Before the movie comes out the press claims the existence of a love story between the interpreters and guesses on the final scene: Gigliola is "too young to love", will she kiss her partner as in all other movies of the kind? Unexpectedly "Dio, come ti amo" will became a real cult movie in South America, especially in Brazil, where is still now one of the major blockbusters of all times, along with "The name of the rose" and "Titanic". Many years later it will have as much success on the home video market, while in Italy it still remains unpublished.
After "Dio, come ti amo" Gigliola accepts to turn a new movie, completely different from the previous one, called "Testadirapa". In between she sings again on TV taking part to the show "Studio Uno" with "Dio, come ti amo" and a comic sketch with Sandra Milo and Lelio Luttazzi.
In the movie "Testadirapa", set in the 19th century and directed by Giancarlo Zagni, Gigliola is a young teacher. His partners are Folco Lulli as the ill-tempered peasant "Testadirapa" and the little Federico Scrobogna as his child. When Testadirapa is sentenced to jail the young teacher Gigliola will take care of the child teaching him to have his way in life. Before going out the movie is presented to the Children Section of the International Film Fair in Venice winning the Silver Lion Award. However censorship will prevent its distribution in the Italian cinemas since the movie is deemed to give a bad image of the Italian judicial system. Though it will be distributed abroad and Gigliola will record its soundtrack: the three "Testadirapa", "Cinque son le dita" and "Hai imparato da me".
During the Summer Gigliola takes a rest period going to the seaside in Venice and to Cerro Veronese, where she plans to build her own villa. She's not going anymore to take a degree in architecture, as she wanted, but she intends all the same to plan the building on her own, and will do it in the following years.
After her holidays a new task: choosing the songs for her new record. As side B Gigliola chooses "Tu non potrai mai più tornare a casa", a very particular song, half sung and half recited, which she sings for the first time during the show "Johnny Sera", with Johnny Dorelli. As side B she'd like to record the Italian version of "La Bohème", by the French singer and author Charles Aznavour. Gigliola got fascinated by the song, interpreted by the same Aznavour during a show in Paris that saw her as a guest. At first Aznavour refuses, then accepts and the song is recorded. Gigliola will present "La boheme" to the II edition of the International Music Fair in Venice and to the "Cantaeuropa" an European tour with several Italian singers. The tour leaves from Venice on 27th August to end up on 11th September in Sanremo, having touched the main European cities and even Russia. During the tour Gigliola sings "La bohème", "Anema e core" and her new song "Dommage, dommage". With the same song Gigliola takes part to the TV song contest "Scala Reale", 1966 edition of "Canzonissima".
All singers are divided into teams and Gigliola is also team captain. In her team Johnny Dorelli, Tony Del Monaco and an unknown Gianni Calone with "L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa". He will became famous later on as Massimo Ranieri.
Gigliola's team passes the first selection beating even Nini Rosso and the famous song "Il silenzio", the second selection however will be passed by Gianni Morandi's team with "La fisarmonica
20th December is Gigliola's 19th birthday and she receives presents from all over the world. A representative of shepherds from Calabria sends her a lamb wool jacket. At the end of the year Gigliola decides not to take part to the 1967 edition of the Sanremo song contest. Her chosen song, "Una storia d'amore" by Paolo Conte, which she should sing with Caterina Caselli, doesn't even pass the preliminary selection. A new song is however ready for her: "L'immensità", but she refuses. She will record all the same "Una storia d'amore" presenting it the following year during the TV programme "Giovani" which reserves her the whole fourth episode. As partial revenge comes her partecipation at the I International Record MIDEM Fair in Cannes, where she represents Italy.

Though her absence in 1967 the Sanremo song contest will play an important role in Gigliola's life. Here's a list of her partecipations till now:

Year	Song	Notes
1964	This is my prayer (Non ho l'età)	with Patricia Carli
1965	Ho bisogno di vederti	with Connie Francis
1966	Dio, come ti amo	with Domenico Modugno
1968	Sunset (Sera)	with Giuliana Valci
1969	Tomorrow (La pioggia)	with France Gall
1970	Romantico blues	with Bobby Solo
1971	Rose nel buio	with Ray Conniff
1972	Gira l'amore
1973	Mistery (Mistero)
1985	Chiamalo amore
1989	Ciao
1995	Giovane vecchio cuore

Gigliola, since is not busy with the Sanremo song contest, takes a break skying in Cortina where she receives the title of "Lady Dolomites", then leaves for a world tour. In Brazil she receives the "Chico Viola" Award as best foreign female interpreter.
Back to Italy she takes part to the IV edition of "Un disco per l'estate". The song she chooses is "La rosa nera", a sort of "rythm and blues" which leaves her audience rather perplexed. Why a rose in the evening "never turns out black", as the song says? Gigliola explains that, according to the author (Panzeri), though all the evil in the world (war, hate, pollution etc...) hope never dies, just like a rose doesn't change its color in the evening, when all gets darker. The French and Spanish versions of the song will repeat the same message: though all that happens "...le soleil qui se pose fera naitre les roses" or "...con su perfume me viene a consolar una rosa morena en la noche serena." A song which calls to hope and optimism.
"Un Disco per l'estate" is a contest between 46 songs which, from 21 April on, are daily broadcasted on the radio and presented in TV shows. The audience can vote for them operating a selection of 20 songs which will still compete for the final award on 8th and 10th June in Saint Vincent. "La rosa nera" is the fourth of the chosen 20. It gains the first position during the first evening of the contest and ends up second at the end of the match. It's a new it for Gigliola, and also a great success to the III International Music Fair in Venice.
In 1967 Gigliola also takes part to the TV show "Eccetera eccetera", playing with Pippo Baudo the part of the two fiancèes created by the French illustrator Peynet and dancing with him on the music of "Stasera mi butto".
Some weekly magazines as "Bolero film teletutto" and "Vitt" reveal an unusual occupation for Gigliola's spare time, planning the building of her villa in Cerro Veronese. The press titles of the time are "Gigliola's dreamhouse" or "Gigliola Cinquetti, the architect-singer".
Her popularity still increases. A poll gives her fourth position among the most loved singers. Before her, in the exact order, Mina, Gianni Morandi and Rita Pavone; after Johnny Dorelli and Adriano Celentano.
From July on Gigliola stars in the TV show "Gran Varietà" with Johnny Dorelli presenting as signature tune of the show her new song "Piccola città", which she will bring later on to the song contest "Partitissima" (1967 edition of "Canzonissima"). Though her busy career she doesn't neglect her studies and takes the exam that will enable her to work as a teacher of drawing. The exam takes place at the Art Institute in Salerno. again the press starts talking about a possible fiancèe when Gigliola his photographed in a car with a mysterious boy. Gigliola denies all rumours. The boy belonged to the staff of the show "Appuntamento ad Asiago", which saw her as guest, and was just giving her a lift. That same car belonged to the management of the show, as shown on the door, cut by the photographer.
The weekly magazine "Sogno" lets Gigliola talk about her life in a three part article. Then, on 28th July Gigliola takes part to the second edition of the "Cantaeuropa" with the songs "Anema e core", "Cam-caminì" and "Piccola città". Her success will be great especialyy in Paris, where "Le Figaro" defines her "the best Italian singer". Back to Italy a new contest: "Partitissima". In her team Claudio Villa and Little Tony. Together the will even beat the team led by Rita Pavone.

In 1968 Gigliola makes her first appearance on TV as actress in the TV fiction "Le mie prigioni". Her role is that of Zanze, daughter of the Venetian gaoler of the famous Italian patriot Silvio Pellico. Her partner is Raul Grassilli, the director Sandro Bolchi. Gigliola plays a small part in the first episode, but is the star of the second, broadcast on 14th January. Zanze is a lively and simple girl, who talks a lot and with her radiant look and spontaneous behaviour will make lighter Pellico's prisony. The character is not much detailed in the book, but Bolchi, struck by Gigliola's interpretation gives her a wider role.
In 1968 Gigliola comes back to Sanremo again with the song "Sunset" (Sera). She has chosen the song on her own, though its authors, Andrea Lo Vecchio and Roberto Vecchioni, are at their first experience. Other two songs had been proposed to her: "Volano le rondini", later on recorder as side B of the Italian version of "Those were the days", and "Quando m'innamoro" that will be then brough to the Sanremo song contest by Anna Identici. The song will be recorder all the same by Gigliola later on in several languages (in Spanish as "Cuando me enamoro", in French as "Comment te dire" And in German mantaining the Italian title) and will be a great success especially in the South American countries.
"Sunset" is a difficult, sophisticated song. One of those songs you need to listen more than once to understand, but is Gigliola's great occasion to demonstrate her great qualities of interpreter. It gains just the eighth position but all reviews are highly favourable. The press writes: "The interpretation of 'Sunset', the song by Vecchioni and Lo Vecchio, given by Gigliola Cinquetti has favourably struck everybody: like a younger Jula De Palma, a voice as warm and sensual as that of a woman who knows all secrets of love. 'But, dear - we asked her - how can you sing that way without having had even a single flirt?' For her has answered her father: "A dream is always more intense than squallid reality'. Gigliola was silent and giving everybody sweet glances, with wet eyes..."
Lyla Rocco, actress and wife of Alberto Lupo, says about her: "...the sweet Gigliola Cinquetti. That's a wider matter. I think that in a few years that girl has highly improved: she's acquired her own style, dresses well, has learned to perform, her voice is more mature. It's not an eulogy. I'm pleased to find that intelligence serves well a woman...".
"Sunset" travels all over the world. Gigliola Anche "Sera" farà il giro del mondo: Gigliola records it in French ("Le soir"), in Greek, in Spanish ("Noche") and in German (mantaining the Italian title).
After the Sanremo song contest Gigliola leaves to France for a tour and there she receives the new of her success at her exam as a teacher of drawing, taken the year before. The result was brilliant: written 24/30, oral 43/45.
On Saturady 20th April Gigliola has her second TV success: she stars in the TV version of the musical comedy "Addio giovinezza" by Falqui-Sacerdote, costumes by Pier Luigi Pizzi and stage designing by Cesarini da Senigallia. Other interpreters are Nino Castelnuovo, Ornella Vanoni and Giuliana Valci. The Italian television invests a lot of money on the programme which is set in 1918 and needs an accurate reconstruction of the city of Turin at that time. Gigliola is Dorina, a tailor, whose fiancèe, Mario (Nino Castelnuovo) is attracted by a "femme fatale" (Ornella Vanoni). A "love story for sweethearts" in two episodes (the second one being broadcast on Saturday 27th April) which meets a great success of audience. Gigliola sings several songs, till now never recorded. Such a TV success brings her other opportunities. She should be Lucia in the TV fiction "I promessi sposi", again with Nino Castelnuovo and again directed by Sandro Bolchi but in the end the choice falls on Paola Pitagora.
After "Addio giovinezza" Gigliola takes part to the fifth edition of "Un disco per l'estate" with the song "Giuseppe in Pennsylvania", full of charleston and dixieland sounds. Even before the final selection the readers of the magazine "TV sorrisi e canzoni" award her the sixth position among all the songs in the contest. Behind her Caterina Caselli, Jimmy Fontana, Pino Donaggio, Iva Zanicchi, Gino Paoli, Peppino Di Capri and a newly arrived Lucio Battisti at his first experience with "Prigioniero del mondo".
Gigliola passes the first selection and goes to the final one in Saint Vincent 13th/14th/15th June where she sings and dances at the sound of charleston. The final result is not highly positive, though Gigliola brings "Giuseppe in Pennsylvania" even to the IV International Music Fair in Venice (which saw that year a lot of grat music stars like Mina, at her first competition after all delusions with the Sanremo song contest) and goes on building up his success in Spanish speaking countries recording a Spanish version of the song ("Pepito en Pennsylvania").
No awards that year for Gigliola at the fair (normally the award is given one year later according to the market share gained by the artist with his/her records) but a great satisfaction. Gigliola gains the second position for the 389.803 copies sold by "La rosa nera" in the last semester of 1967. The winner for that year is Fausto Leali.
Gigliola sings "Giuseppe in Pennsylvania" even on the 24th August, during the TV show "Vengo anch'io", with Raffaele Pisu and Enrico Simonetti. During the Summer the press announces another supposed flirt, as usual denied.
Success comes again at the "Sporting d'ètè" in Montecarlo, at the first edition of the "Festival of the Festivals" at the royal palace in Caserta where she sings for the first time " Volano le rondini", at the 1968 edition of the Castrocaro song contest where is special guest with Charles Aznavour, at the show "Campioni a Campione" where she presents for the first time the Italian version of "Thos were the days", a hit of the British singer Mary Hopkin. The press talks about a new flirt with Tonino of the band "I Camaleonti" but again it's a fake.
At the end of the year the usual contest: "Canzonissima'68". Before that however Gigliola takes a tour in Canada and South America where "Quando m'innamoro" is a real hit.
"Canzonissima" turns out to be a hard experience for the 48 partecipating singers. The jury is composed mainly of young people, and many "old-fashioned" singers do not even pass the first selection. Jula De Palma, with the song "Tua", got eliminated with just 13 points. Gigliola sings "La rosa nera" and runs against Sergio Endrigo, Ornella Vanoni, Reccardo Del Turco, Dino and Gianni Pettenati. The jury awards her just 24 points, though the cheers of the audience. Just the votes of the audience will allow her to pass the selection leaving out instead Iva Zanicchi.
On that same evening after her performance, she flies to Bari where she sings again "Those were the days" during the show "Caravella dei successi" at Petruzzelli Theatre. Then she leaves for Mexico to record a LP with the Mexican trio "Los Panchos". Before going back to "Canzonissima" she stops in Argentina to receive the first prize of female singer section of the International Festival of Mar de la Plata for the sale quotes of her record "Rosa d'amore" (especially recorded for the South American Market
On 30th November Gigliola is in Italy again for "Canzonissima", this time she sings "Those were the days". Eight famous music stars compete with her: Claudio Villa, Fred Bongusto, Johnny Dorelli, Marisa Sannia, Patty Pravo and Dino. This time even the votes of the audience can't allow her to pass the selection, but she doesn't get angry: "I don't care about 'Canzonissima' - she says - but only about my new record." And "Those were the days" becomes a hit, though recorded by several other singers as Mary Hopkin herself, Sandie Shaw and Dalida. Gigliola records it also in Spanish (with the title "Que tiempo tan feliz") and in Greek.
20th December Gigliola comes of age. A big party is held in her villa in Cerro Veronese, now finished, with all her relatives and friends including a certain Vittorio Selmo, who becomes the following year her first official fiancèe.

The beginning of 1969 sees gigliola as star of a radio programme in 13 parts called "La bella e la bestia". It starts on Thursday 9th January. With her Paolo Villaggio who will try to discover her musical tastes, often directly provoking her. Gigliola sings many of her hits, but even songs by other singers mimicking some of her most famous colleagues. Signature tune of the programme "Zero in amore", written for her by Franco Califano and later proposed as side B of her greatest hit of that year: "Tomorrow" (La pioggia).
The song will be presented at the Sanremo song contest but even before is defined as the song that will give a new impulse to her success. Though the student protest the contest is serene, the students just protest silently and pacifically standing at the entrance of the Casino, where the contest takes place. Singing with Gigliola the French singer France Gall, winner of the 1965 edition of the European Song Contest. Many new and famous singer take part to the contest this year. It's the first appearance for Rita Pavone, Lucio Battisti with "Un'avventura", Gianni Morandi as author with "Zingara", Gabriella Ferri with Stevie Wonder and Rosanna Fratello, a last minute replacement for Anna Identici. Gigliola wears a dress of silver stripes by the designer Pia Rame (sister of Dario Fo's wife, Franca). The song passes the first selection and Gigliola is much more applauded than France Gall, whose "puppetlike" moves are highly criticized.
The song gains the third position on the first turn and the sixth in the final one, but its success is great: as "L'orage" conquers the French market, afterwards it will be translated into Japanese, Greek ("Ki'an vrehi"), Spanish ("La lluvia") and German. Gigliola will take it in a world tour through France, Spain, Canada, Latin America and Japan. In Milan Gigliola is awarded with the silver Pirandello for her preminent position in the musical field. "Tomorrow", after "This is my prayer" is her second world hit.
With the same authors (Pace-Panzeri-Argenio-Conti) Gigliola takes part to the sixth edition of "Un disco per l'estate". The new song is "Il treno dell'amore". For the third year in a row she gets to the final turn in Saint Vincent (12th/13th/14th June). Other famous colleagues like Nada and Milva don't. Rosanna Fratello didn't even reach the first turn. Among the new singers of the time a certain Franco Battiato who, 30 years later will give to Gigliola the beautiful song "E ti vengo a cercare". "Il treno dell'amore" is not a hit like "Tomorrow" but it results convincing all the same. Gigliola records it in French ("Le tandem") and in Spanish ("El tren del amor"). It becomes also the title of a LP which contains many of Gigliola's hits and songs like "Zum zum zum" (recorded previously just for the Japanese market) and "Non illuderti mai" (a previous hit by Orietta Berti),
Though her busy schedule Gigliola manages to attend her sister's marriage and again the press tries vainly to discover her "fiancèe" among the guests.
On 24th July Gigliola is the star of the state TV show "Senza rete". She sings her most famous hits, along with other songs she has not yet recorder as "Where the flowers have gone" and "L'acquabelle", songs really fit for her exquisite sensibility of interpreter.
From 18th to 20th September Gigliola Takes part to the V International Music Fair in Venice where se presents her new song: "Liverpool" by Bigazzi-Cavallaro. No great success this time, while "Tomorrow", seven months after its launch is still on the hit parades.
In 1969 Gigliola refuses to partecipate to "Canzonissima"as will Ornella Vanoni and Caterina Caselli, though the vote system is going to be changed. She assures instead her partecipation to the next Sanremo song contest in 1970. A new article on the press claims to reveal one of his secrets. Gigliola is not engaged but would be pursued by a maniac... The weekly magazine "Oggi" publishes a list of the singers who have sold more records during her career. Gigliola has the third position after Mina and Rita Pavone.

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