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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]

Top new album releases

Births

  • January 8 — Cristy Lane, Christian singer who also enjoyed secular success as a country performer in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • August 5 — Bobby Braddock, prominent songwriter with more than 40 years of success.

Deaths

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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