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‘C’è chi Spera’ is a single performed in Italian that was Marianne’s entry at the Sanremo music festival in 1967. The B-side was the self-penned ‘Oh Look Around You’ which was first released in the UK as the B-Side to ‘Yesterday’.

The Sanremo music festival is the longest running annual TV music competition in the world, and unlike other music competitions the entries selected are all new songs written in Italian. In the years when Marianne took part, each song was sung by two different artists, one a native Italian, the other an international guest. In the mid to late sixties, the festival was popular with artists from the US and the UK with many well known names taking part including Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield,  Gene Pitney, Sonny and Cher, Dionne Warwick and Bobbie Gentry.