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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1940.
Video 1940 in country music
Events
- April 4 -- Ernest Tubb makes his first recordings for Decca Records, a label where he will remain for more than 30 years.
Maps 1940 in country music
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
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Top new album releases
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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.
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Deaths
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Further reading
- Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
- Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
- Whitburn, Joel. "Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music," Record Research Inc., Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 1986 (ISBN 0-89820-083-0).
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