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1940 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1940.

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Events

  • April 4 — Ernest Tubb makes his first recordings for Decca Records, a label where he will remain for more than 30 years.

    • Top hits of the year

  • "Blue Eyed Ellaine" - Ernest Tubb
  • "Blueberry Hill" - Gene Autry
  • "El Rancho Grande" - Gene Autry
  • "Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye" - Gene Autry
  • "I'll Get Along Somehow" - Ernest Tubb
  • "Ida Red" - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
  • "Just To Ease My Worried Mind" - Roy Acuff
  • "New San Antonio Rose" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  • "Old Age Pension Check" - Roy Acuff
  • "Old Fashioned Love" - Roy Acuff
  • "Streamlined Cannonball" - Roy Acuff
  • "There's A Chill On The Hill" - Jimmie Davis
  • "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" - Bing Crosby
  • "Worried Mind" - Ted Daffan's Texans
  • "Worried Mind" - Jimmie Davis
  • "You Are My Sunshine" - Bob Atcher
  • "You Are My Sunshine" - Jimmie Davis
  • "Cimmaron" - Jimmy Wakely
  • "My Window Faces The South" - Bob Wills
  • "Lone Star Rag" - Bob Wills
  • "Smokey Mountain Rag" - Roy Acuff
  • "I'll Keep On Loving You" - Floyd Tillman
  • "I'll Keep On Loving You" - Cliff Bruner
  • "Weary River" - Roy Acuff
  • "Blue Eyed Darling" - Roy Acuff
  • "My Baby And My Wife" - Ernest Tubb
  • "I'll Never Cry Over You" - Ernest Tubb
  • "Too Late" - Jimmy Wakely
  • "South Of The Border" - Gene Autry

    • Births

  • January 8 — Cristy Lane, Christian singer who also enjoyed secular success as a country performer in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • June 23 - Diana Trask, Australian-born singer who enjoyed American success in the early 1970s.
  • August 5 — Bobby Braddock, prominent songwriter with more than 40 years of success; later, producer for Blake Shelton.
  • August 10 – Jerry Kennedy, prominent producer from the 1960s through early 1990s.

    • References

    1940 in country music Wikipedia
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