I giorni dell'arcobaleno

Infobox ESC entry
song = "I Giorni Dell'Arcobaleno"


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year = 1972
country = Italy
artist = Michele Scommegna
as = Nicola di Bari
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language = Italian
languages =
composer = Piero Pintucci, Nicola di Bari
lyricist = Dalmazio Masini
conductor =
place = 6th
points = 92
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points_semi =
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1972it.studio from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip = "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" (English translation: "The Days Of The Rainbow") was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, performed in Italian by Nicola di Bari.

The song is a nostalgic ballad, with di Bari singing to a woman about her childhood, which she gave up by taking a lover at a very young age; and while this action, being a passage into adulthood, made her appear "cool" before her more innocent peers and transformed her into a self-assured young woman, she did in fact forsake what was - or could have been - "the best time" of her life.

The song was performed twelfth on the night (following Austria's Milestones with "Falter im Wind" and preceding Yugoslavia's Tereza Kesovija with "Muzika I Ti"). At the close of voting, it had received 92 points, placing 6th in a field of 18.

It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1973 Contest by Massimo Ranieri with "Chi sarà".