No. |
Song |
Artist
|
| 1 |
Star Dust
| Artie Shaw / Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
|
| 2 |
New San Antonio Rose
| Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
|
| 3 |
I'll Never Smile Again
| Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers)
|
| 4 |
You Are My Sunshine
| Jimmie Davis
|
| 5 |
Tuxedo Junction
| Glenn Miller
|
| 6 |
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
| Ink Spots / Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
|
| 7 |
Frenesi
| Artie Shaw
|
| 8 |
Pennsylvania 6-5000
| Glenn Miller
|
| 9 |
When You Wish Upon A Star
| Cliff Edwards / Glenn Miller
|
| 10 |
All Or Nothing At All
| Harry James (Frank Sinatra)
|
| 11 |
Maybe
| Ink Spots
|
| 12 |
The Breeze And I
| Jimmy Dorsey (Bob Eberly)
|
| 13 |
Java Jive
| Ink Spots
|
| 14 |
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
| Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
|
| 15 |
When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano
| Ink Spots / Glenn Miller (Ray Eberle)
|
| 16 |
Body And Soul
| Billie Holiday
|
| 17 |
Summit Ridge Drive
| Artie Shaw
|
| 18 |
Five O'Clock Whistle
| Glenn Miller / Erskine Hawkins / Ella Fitzgerald
|
| 19 |
Pompton Turnpike
| Charlie Barnet / Louis Jordan
|
| 20 |
Talking Dust Bowl Blues
| Woody Guthrie
|
| 21 |
Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees)
| Ink Spots
|
| 22 |
Mule Skinner Blues
| Bill Monroe
|
| 23 |
Never No Lament
| Duke Ellington
|
| 24 |
Night And Day
| Billie Holiday
|
| 25 |
Key To The Highway
| Jazz Gillum
|
| 26 |
Romance In The Dark
| Lil Green
|
| 27 |
In A Mellotone
| Duke Ellington
|
| 28 |
It Hurts Me Too
| Tampa Red
|
| 29 |
Nuages
| Django Reinhardt
|
| 30 |
Boog It
| Glenn Miller (Marion Hutton) / Gene Krupa (Irene Day) / Cab Calloway
|
| 31 |
Step It Up And Go
| Blind Boy Fuller
|
| 32 |
I Miss You So
| Cats and the Fiddle
|
| 33 |
After Hours
| Erskine Hawkins
|
| 34 |
Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues
| Earl Hines
|
| 35 |
Red Wagon
| Count Basie
|
| 36 |
Stop Pretending (So Hep You See)
| Ink Spots / Buddy Johnson (Mack Sisters)
|
| 37 |
Down The Road A-Piece
| Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
|
| 38 |
Ko-Ko
| Duke Ellington
|
| 39 |
The Great Dust Storm
| Woody Guthrie
|
| 40 |
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
| Glenn Miller
|
| 41 |
Slow Freight
| Glenn Miller / Benny Carter
|
| 42 |
The Man I Love
| Billie Holiday
|
| 43 |
On The Sunny Side of The Street
| King Cole Trio
|
| 44 |
L'accordeoniste
| Edith Piaf
|
| 45 |
The Woodpecker Song
| Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
|
| 46 |
Corrine, Corrina
| Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
|
| 47 |
Cotton Tail
| Duke Ellington
|
| 48 |
Imagination
| Glenn Miller / Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
|
| 49 |
Blueberry Hill
| Glenn Miller
|
| 50 |
I've Been Dealing With The Devil
| Sonny Boy Williamson
|
| 51 |
So Long
| Charioteers
|
| 52 |
The Flight of the Bumble Bee
| Harry James
|
| 53 |
Flying Home
| Lionel Hampton (Ziggy Elman - trumpet)
|
| 54 |
Concerto for Cootie
| Duke Ellington
|
| 55 |
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
| Woody Guthrie
|
| 56 |
Wham (Re-Bop Boom Bam)
| Jimmie Lunceford / Andy Kirk / Teddy Wilson
|
| 57 |
Please Mr. Johnson
| Buddy & Ella Johnson
|
| 58 |
Make Believe Ballroom Time
| Glenn Miller
|
| 59 |
Rhumboogie
| Andrews Sisters
|
| 60 |
Big Beaver
| Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
|
| 61 |
Don't You Lie To Me
| Tampa Red
|
| 62 |
You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business
| Louis Jordan
|
| 63 |
Number 19
| Earl Hines
|
| 64 |
Raining on The Mountain
| Delmore Brothers
|
| 65 |
Do I Worry?
| Ink Spots
|
| 66 |
Old Black Joe
| Mills Brothers
|
| 67 |
A Chicken Ain't Nothin But A Bird
| Louis Jordan
|
| 68 |
Celery Stalks at Midnight
| Will Bradley
|
| 69 |
Only Forever
| Bing Crosby
|
| 70 |
Where Was I
| Charlie Barnet
|
| 71 |
Sierra Sue
| Bing Crosby
|
| 72 |
I'm Nobody's Baby
| Judy Garland
|
| 73 |
Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat
| Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
|
| 74 |
Dolemite
| Erskine Hawkins
|
| 75 |
Juneteenth Jamboree
| Louis Jordan
|
| 76 |
Chain Gang Blues
| Champion Jack Dupree
|
| 77 |
I Hear a Rhapsody
| Charlie Barnet (Bob Carroll)
|
| 78 |
Trade Winds
| Bing Crosby
|
| 79 |
Ferryboat Serenade
| Andrews Sisters
|
| 80 |
Deep Forest
| Earl Hines
|
| 81 |
Sleep
| Benny Carter
|
| 82 |
How High The Moon
| Benny Goodman (Helen Forrest)
|
| 83 |
Central Avenue Breakdown
| Lionel Hampton
|
| 84 |
Jack The Bellboy
| Lionel Hampton
|
| 85 |
No Name Jive
| Glen Gray
|
| 86 |
Fixin' To Die Blues
| Bukka White
|
| 87 |
I Want A Little Girl
| Count Basie
|
| 88 |
Junction Blues
| Erskine Hawkins
|
| 89 |
Black Train Blues
| Bukka White
|
| 90 |
Polka Dots & Moonbeams
| Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
|
| 91 |
Swingin' On C
| Jimmie Lunceford
|
| 92 |
Night Hop
| Benny Carter
|
| 93 |
With The Wind and The Rain In Your Hair
| Bob Chester (Dolores O'Neill)
|
| 94 |
Digging My Potatoes No. 2
| Washboard Sam
|
| 95 |
Memories of You
| Ink Spots
|
| 96 |
New Highway No. 51
| Tommy McClennan
|
| 97 |
Root Man Blues
| Walter Davis
|
| 98 |
What is That She Got?
| Big Bill Broonzy
|
| 99 |
Blowin' Down This Road
| Woody Guthrie
|
| 100 |
New Rocky Mountain Blues
| Leroy's Buddy (Bill Gaither)
|
| 20 more worth mentioning. |
| 101 |
Who's Sorry Now
| Hoosier Hot Shots
|
| 102 |
Lead Me To That Rock
| Mitchell's Christian Singers
|
| 103 |
Penthouse In The Basement
| Louis Jordan
|
| 104 |
Yes Indeed
| Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell
|
| 105 |
Jake, What A Snake
| Louis Jordan
|
| 106 |
Gone With "What" Wind?
| Benny Goodman
|
| 107 |
Get Your Boots Laced, Papa
| Woody Herman
|
| 108 |
Six White Horses
| Bill Monroe
|
| 109 |
Where The Blue of The Night (Meets The Gold of The Day)
| Bing Crosby
|
| 110 |
Tush Hog Blues
| Bo Carter
|
| 111 |
Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street
| Charlie Barnet (Mary Ann McCall)
|
| 112 |
W.P.A.
| Louis Armstrong & Mills Brothers
|
| 113 |
I Get A Kick Outa Corn
| Tiny Hill
|
| 114 |
Soft Winds
| Benny Goodman
|
| 115 |
Piney Brown Blues
| Joe Turner and His Fly Cats
|
| 116 |
Fifteen Minute Intermission
| Cab Calloway
|
| 117 |
Vigilante Man
| Woody Guthrie
|
| 118 |
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
| Bing Crosby
|
| 119 |
The Gaucho Serenade
| Dick Todd / Glenn Miller
|
| 120 |
Bottle It Up And Go
| Tommy McClennan
|
DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 1940 |
| Adam's Choice: An unheralded great record from 1940 |
| * |
Gangster's Blues
| Peetie Wheatstraw
|
| Bruce's Choice: |
| * |
T-Bone Blues
| Les Hite Orchestra (T-Bone Walker)
|
| Lew's Choice: |
| * |
Parchman Farm Blues
| Bukka White
|
