"Sapore di sale" is a song written and originally recorded by Gino Paoli. The song was released as a single in June 1963 by RCA Italiana. The song was the biggest hit of Paoli, but also one of the evergreen classics of Italian music. The song had also attended the 1963 edition of Cantagiro, where he had not obtained a successful result; on the contrary he obtained an extraordinary success of sales and in August 1963, the 45 rpm reached number one on the Italian charts.