1940

[SavoyBG]

I'm working on a top 100 (+20 more) of 1940 for Digital Dream Door. The records have to have been first released in 1940. Here's tentatively what I have so far:

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. Tuxedo Junction - Glenn Miller
5. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) - Ink Spots
6. You Are My Sunshine - Jimmie Davis
7. Frenesi - Artie Shaw
8. Java Jive - Ink Spots
9. Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Glenn Miller
10. Maybe - Ink Spots

THE REST
Romance In The Dark - Lil Green
In A Mellotone - Duke Ellington
Juneteenth Jamboree - Louis Jordan
Please Mr. Johnson - Buddy & Ella Johnson
It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red
Five O'Clock Whistle - Glenn Miller / Erskine Hawkins / Ella Fitzgerald
Wham (Re-Bop Boom Bam) - Jimmie Lunceford (Willie Smith) / Andy Kirk / Teddy Wilson
I've Been Dealing With The Devil - Sonny Boy Williamson
Just A Jitterbug - Five Breezes
Don't You Lie To Me - Tampa Red
You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business - Louis Jordan
Boog It - Glenn Miller (Marion Hutton) / Gene Krupa (Irene Day)
Make Believe Ballroom Time - Glenn Miller
Who's Sorry Now - Hoosier Hot Shots
A Chicken Ain't Nothin But A Bird - Louis Jordan
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
The Sidewalks Of New York - Duke Ellington
Slow Freight - Glenn Miller
Penthouse In The Basement - Louis Jordan
Jake, What A Snake - Louis Jordan
Red Wagon - Count Basie
The Midnight Special - Leadbelly
Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe
When You Wish Upon A Star - Cliff Edwards
All or Nothing at All - Harry James (Frank Sinatra)
Body And Soul - Billie Holiday
Rhumboogie - Andrews Sisters
Key To The Highway - Bill "Jazz" Gillum
Yes Indeed - Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell
Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller
Corrine, Corrina - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Big Beaver - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
I Miss You So - Cats and the Fiddle
Pompton Turnpike - Charlie Barnet / Louis Jordan
Stop Pretending (So Hep You See) - Ink Spots
When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano - Ink Spots
Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees) - Ink Spots
Do I Worry? - Ink Spots
Flying Home - Lionel Hampton
Old Black Joe - Mills Brothers
Down The Road A-Piece - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
Get Your Boots Laved, Papa - Woody Herman
Never No Lament - Duke Ellington
Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington
The Man I Love - Billie Holiday
Night And Day - Billie Holiday
Ko-Ko - Duke Ellington
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie
Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington
Celery Stalks at Midnight - Will Bradley
Black Train Blues - Bukka White
The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie
Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues - Earl Hines
So Long - Charioteers


Comments and suggestions welcomed.

[SavoyBG]

Here's what this site has for 1940, from the 1940s song list.

7 504 Leadbelly
The Midnight Special
1940

21 1306 Jimmie Davis
You Are My Sunshine
1940


25 1469 Bill Monroe
Mule Skinner Blues
1940


31 1845 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
New San Antonio Rose
1940


41 2657 Cliff Edwards
When You Wish Upon a Star
1940


50 2969 Frank Sinatra
All or Nothing at All
1940


Billie Holiday
Body and Soul
1940

[nicolas]

not sure everything here is really from 1940, no time to check, but :

I'm not sure Leadbelly's Midnight Special is from 1940. I use recording dates, and the first recording of this song was made in 1934 at Angola Prison. If the first release was from 1940, it would be my number one here.

1. Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway
2. Django Reinhardt - Nuages
3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - New San Antonio Rose
4. Woody Guthrie - Blowin' Down This Road
5. Edith Piaf - L'Accordéoniste
6. Woody Guthrie - Vigilante Man
7. Delmore Brothers - Raining In The Mountain
8. Woody Guthrie - Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good To Know You)
9. Bukka White - Fixin' To Die Blues
10. Ida Cox - Last Miles Blues
11. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Time Changes Everything
12. Rhythm Willie - Breathtaking Blues
13. Art Tatum - Tiger Rag
14. Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra feat. Avery Parish - After Hours
15. Jimmie Davis - You Are My Sunshine
16. Moon Mullican - Pipeliner Blues
17. Francisco Alves - Aquarela Do Brasil
18. Francisco Alves - Serra de Boa Esperança
19. Robert Nighthawk - Friar Point's Blues
20. Blind Boy Fuller - Step It Up And Go

[SavoyBG]

Thanks Nick.

Heres the criteria for the list:

These records were chosen and ranked based on their initial & lasting popularity, and on their impact on the overall scope of musical history.

You can throw in some acclaim into it too. Not necessarily critical acclaim, but awar5ds like Grammy Hall of Fame and things like that.

[SavoyBG]

7. Delmore Brothers - Raining In The Mountain

I'll list this one, but it's "Raining On The Mountain."

[SavoyBG]

Here's where I'm at now:

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. Tuxedo Junction - Glenn Miller
5. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) - Ink Spots
6. You Are My Sunshine - Jimmie Davis
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. The Midnight Special - Leadbelly (Golden Gate Quartet)
15. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
16. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano - Ink Spots
17. Body And Soul - Billie Holiday
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. Key To The Highway - Jazz Gillum
24. Romance In The Dark - Lil Green
25. In A Mellotone - Duke Ellington
26. It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red
27. Boog It - Glenn Miller (Marion Hutton) / Gene Krupa (Irene Day) / Cab Calloway
28. Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller
29. I Miss You So - Cats and the Fiddle
30. After Hours - Erskine Hawkins
31. Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues - Earl Hines
32. Red Wagon - Count Basie
33. Stop Pretending (So Hep You See) - Ink Spots / Buddy Johnson (Mack Sisters)
34. Down The Road A-Piece - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
35. Ko-Ko - Duke Ellington
36. The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie
37. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Glenn Miller
38. Slow Freight - Glenn Miller / Benny Carter
39. The Man I Love - Billie Holiday
40. On The Sunny Side of The Street - King Cole Trio
41. L'accordeoniste - Edith Piaf
42. The Woodpecker Song - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
43. Corrine, Corrina - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
44. Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington
45. Imagination - Glenn Miller
46. The Sidewalks Of New York - Duke Ellington
47. Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller
48. Nuages - Django Reinhardt
49. I've Been Dealing With The Devil - Sonny Boy Williamson
50. So Long - Charioteers


Juneteenth Jamboree - Louis Jordan
Please Mr. Johnson - Buddy & Ella Johnson
Wham (Re-Bop Boom Bam) - Jimmie Lunceford (Willie Smith) / Andy Kirk / Teddy Wilson
Just A Jitterbug - Five Breezes
Don't You Lie To Me - Tampa Red
You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business - Louis Jordan
Make Believe Ballroom Time - Glenn Miller
Who's Sorry Now - Hoosier Hot Shots
A Chicken Ain't Nothin But A Bird - Louis Jordan
Penthouse In The Basement - Louis Jordan
Jake, What A Snake - Louis Jordan
Rhumboogie - Andrews Sisters
Yes Indeed - Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell
Big Beaver - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Do I Worry? - Ink Spots
Flying Home - Lionel Hampton (Ziggy Elman - trumpet)
Old Black Joe - Mills Brothers
Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
Get Your Boots Laved, Papa - Woody Herman
Never No Lament - Duke Ellington
Night And Day - Billie Holiday
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington
Celery Stalks at Midnight - Will Bradley
Black Train Blues - Bukka White
Central Avenue Breakdown - Lionel Hampton
Jack The Bellboy - Lionel Hampton
Chain Gang Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
Deep Forest - Earl Hines
Number 19 - Earl Hines
Digging My Potatoes No. 2 - Washboard Sam
Dolemite - Erskine Hawkins
I Want A Little Girl - Count Basie
Junction Blues - Erskine Hawkins
Lead Me To That Rock - Mitchell's Christian Singers
Memories of You - Ink Spots
New Highway No. 51 - Tommy McClennan
New Rocky Mountain Blues - Leroy's Buddy (Bill Gaither)
Night Hop - Benny Carter
Root Man Blues - Walter Davis
Swingin' On C - Jimmie Lunceford
What is That She Got? - Big Bill Broonzy
Sleep - Benny Carter
Blowin' Down This Road - Woody Guthrie
Raining on The Mountain - Delmore Brothers
Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
Only Forever - Bing Crosby
Sierra Sue - Bing Crosby
Where Was I - Charlie Barnet
I'm Nobody's Baby - Judy Garland
Careless - Glenn Miller
No Name Jive - Glen Gray
The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Harry James

[sonofsamiam]

Really good stuff, some thoughts just using my gut...

1. Star Dust - Artie Shaw / Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
2. New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Solid 1-2, hard to argue.


6. You Are My Sunshine - Jimmie Davis

This might be worth moving to No. 3, the song is so famous, but much more multi-layered than it immediately appears.


9. When You Wish Upon A Star - Cliff Edwards / Glenn Miller

Glad you moved this one up, I'm a sentimental sucker.


14. The Midnight Special - Leadbelly (Golden Gate Quartet)

This might be worthy of the Top 10, it's remained quite well-known due to rock covers.


22. Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe

Might also be worth moving up...


48. Nuages - Django Reinhardt

One could argue this for the Top 10...it's Django's signature song.



Of the rest, consider these for Top 50:

Flying Home - Lionel Hampton (Ziggy Elman - trumpet): Hampton's most famous track
Never No Lament - Duke Ellington: Became "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", a great standard
Night And Day - Billie Holiday: The song of course is an all-time famous one, not sure if it's covered in other years
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie: One of his best
Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington: Also amazing, these were incredible years for Ellington

[SavoyBG]

On "Flying Home" the famous one is the 1942 version with Illinois Jacquet.

[SavoyBG]

Really good stuff, some thoughts just using my gut...

1. Star Dust - Artie Shaw / Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
2. New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Solid 1-2, hard to argue.

THANKS - I made several adjustments based on your suggestions.

Here's where I'm at now:

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
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. The Midnight Special - Leadbelly (Golden Gate Quartet)
12. Maybe - Ink Spots
13. The Breeze And I - Jimmy Dorsey (Bob Eberly)
14. Java Jive - Ink Spots
15. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
16. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano - Ink Spots
17. Body And Soul - Billie Holiday
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. Boog It - Glenn Miller (Marion Hutton) / Gene Krupa (Irene Day) / Cab Calloway
30. Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller
31. I Miss You So - Cats and the Fiddle
32. After Hours - Erskine Hawkins
33. Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues - Earl Hines
34. Red Wagon - Count Basie
35. Nuages - Django Reinhardt
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
49. The Sidewalks Of New York - Duke Ellington
50. Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller
51. I've Been Dealing With The Devil - Sonny Boy Williamson
52. So Long - Charioteers
53. The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Harry James

Juneteenth Jamboree - Louis Jordan
Please Mr. Johnson - Buddy & Ella Johnson
Wham (Re-Bop Boom Bam) - Jimmie Lunceford (Willie Smith) / Andy Kirk / Teddy
Wilson
Just A Jitterbug - Five Breezes
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
Don't You Lie To Me - Tampa Red
You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business - Louis Jordan
Make Believe Ballroom Time - Glenn Miller
Who's Sorry Now - Hoosier Hot Shots
A Chicken Ain't Nothin But A Bird - Louis Jordan
Penthouse In The Basement - Louis Jordan
Jake, What A Snake - Louis Jordan
Rhumboogie - Andrews Sisters
Yes Indeed - Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell
Big Beaver - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Do I Worry? - Ink Spots
Flying Home - Lionel Hampton (Ziggy Elman - trumpet)
Old Black Joe - Mills Brothers
Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
Get Your Boots Laved, Papa - Woody Herman
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington
Celery Stalks at Midnight - Will Bradley
Black Train Blues - Bukka White
Central Avenue Breakdown - Lionel Hampton
Jack The Bellboy - Lionel Hampton
Chain Gang Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
Deep Forest - Earl Hines
Number 19 - Earl Hines
Digging My Potatoes No. 2 - Washboard Sam
Dolemite - Erskine Hawkins
I Want A Little Girl - Count Basie
Junction Blues - Erskine Hawkins
Lead Me To That Rock - Mitchell's Christian Singers
Memories of You - Ink Spots
New Highway No. 51 - Tommy McClennan
New Rocky Mountain Blues - Leroy's Buddy (Bill Gaither)
Night Hop - Benny Carter
Root Man Blues - Walter Davis
Swingin' On C - Jimmie Lunceford
What is That She Got? - Big Bill Broonzy
Sleep - Benny Carter
Blowin' Down This Road - Woody Guthrie
Raining on The Mountain - Delmore Brothers
Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
Only Forever - Bing Crosby
Sierra Sue - Bing Crosby
Where Was I - Charlie Barnet
I'm Nobody's Baby - Judy Garland
Careless - Glenn Miller
No Name Jive - Glen Gray

[sonofsamiam]

THANKS - I made several adjustments based on your suggestions.

Looks really good. I'd still plug for "Nuages" to move up, but it's your list. Sensible call on "Flying Home", too.

[nicolas]

The list looks great

[SavoyBG]

THANKS - I made several adjustments based on your suggestions.

Looks really good. I'd still plug for "Nuages" to move up, but it's your list.

Okay, I moved it to #30, but that's as high as I'll go

I deleted a couple of things that were not from 1940, and added "Summit Ridge Drive" in the top 20. Here's where I'm currently at:

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
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. The Midnight Special - Leadbelly (Golden Gate Quartet)
12. Maybe - Ink Spots
13. The Breeze And I - Jimmy Dorsey (Bob Eberly)
14. Java Jive - Ink Spots
15. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
16. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano - Ink Spots / Glenn Miller (Ray Eberle)
17. Body And Soul - Billie Holiday
18. Summit Ridge Drive - Artie Shaw
19. Five O'Clock Whistle - Glenn Miller / Erskine Hawkins / Ella Fitzgerald
20. Pompton Turnpike - Charlie Barnet / Louis Jordan
21. Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie
22. Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees) - Ink Spots
23. Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe
24. Never No Lament - Duke Ellington
25. Night And Day - Billie Holiday
26. Key To The Highway - Jazz Gillum
27. Romance In The Dark - Lil Green
28. In A Mellotone - Duke Ellington
29. It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red
30. Nuages - Django Reinhardt
31. Boog It - Glenn Miller (Marion Hutton) / Gene Krupa (Irene Day) / Cab Calloway
32. Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller
33. I Miss You So - Cats and the Fiddle
34. After Hours - Erskine Hawkins
35. Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues - Earl Hines
36. Red Wagon - Count Basie
37. Stop Pretending (So Hep You See) - Ink Spots / Buddy Johnson (Mack Sisters)
38. Down The Road A-Piece - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
39. Ko-Ko - Duke Ellington
40. The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie
41. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Glenn Miller
42. Slow Freight - Glenn Miller / Benny Carter
43. The Man I Love - Billie Holiday
44. On The Sunny Side of The Street - King Cole Trio
45. L'accordeoniste - Edith Piaf
46. The Woodpecker Song - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
47. Corrine, Corrina - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
48. Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington
49. Imagination - Glenn Miller
50. Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller
51. I've Been Dealing With The Devil - Sonny Boy Williamson
52. So Long - Charioteers
53. The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Harry James
54. Flying Home - Lionel Hampton (Ziggy Elman - trumpet)
55. Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington
56. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
57. Wham (Re-Bop Boom Bam) - Jimmie Lunceford (Willie Smith) / Andy Kirk / Teddy Wilson
58. Please Mr. Johnson - Buddy & Ella Johnson
59. Make Believe Ballroom Time - Glenn Miller
60. Rhumboogie - Andrews Sisters
61. Big Beaver - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
62. Don't You Lie To Me - Tampa Red
63. You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business - Louis Jordan
64. Number 19 - Earl Hines
65. Raining on The Mountain - Delmore Brothers
66. Do I Worry? - Ink Spots
67. Old Black Joe - Mills Brothers
68. A Chicken Ain't Nothin But A Bird - Louis Jordan
69. Celery Stalks at Midnight - Will Bradley
70. Only Forever - Bing Crosby
71. Where Was I - Charlie Barnet
72. Sierra Sue - Bing Crosby
73. I'm Nobody's Baby - Judy Garland
74. Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
75. Dolemite - Erskine Hawkins
76. Juneteenth Jamboree - Louis Jordan
77. Chain Gang Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
78. Black Train Blues - Bukka White
79. Trade Winds - Bing Crosby
80. Ferryboat Serenade - Andrews Sisters
81. Deep Forest - Earl Hines
82. Sleep - Benny Carter
83. Get Your Boots Laced, Papa - Woody Herman
84. Central Avenue Breakdown - Lionel Hampton
85. Jack The Bellboy - Lionel Hampton
86. No Name Jive - Glen Gray
87. Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
88. I Want A Little Girl - Count Basie
89, Junction Blues - Erskine Hawkins
90. Just A Jitterbug - Five Breezes
91. Polka Dots & Moonbeams - Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
92. Swingin' On C - Jimmie Lunceford
93. Night Hop - Benny Carter
94. With The Wind and The Rain In Your Hair - Bob Chester (Dolores O'Neill)
95. Digging My Potatoes No. 2 - Washboard Sam
96. Memories of You - Ink Spots
97. New Highway No. 51 - Tommy McClennan
98. Root Man Blues - Walter Davis
99. What is That She Got? - Big Bill Broonzy
100. Blowin' Down This Road - Woody Guthrie

101. New Rocky Mountain Blues - Leroy's Buddy (Bill Gaither)
102. Who's Sorry Now - Hoosier Hot Shots
103. Lead Me To That Rock - Mitchell's Christian Singers
104. Penthouse In The Basement - Louis Jordan
105. Yes Indeed - Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell
106. Jake, What A Snake - Louis Jordan

[SavoyBG]

Nick, some of your top 20 turned out not to be from 1940.

I just sent this in to the Webmaster, the list should be up by tomorrow or Sunday.





Criteria: - These records were chosen and ranked based on their initial & lasting popularity,
acclaim, and their impact on the overall scope of musical history.

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
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. The Midnight Special - Leadbelly (Golden Gate Quartet)
12. Maybe - Ink Spots
13. The Breeze And I - Jimmy Dorsey (Bob Eberly)
14. Java Jive - Ink Spots
15. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
16. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano - Ink Spots / Glenn Miller (Ray Eberle)
17. Body And Soul - Billie Holiday
18. Summit Ridge Drive - Artie Shaw
19. Five O'Clock Whistle - Glenn Miller / Erskine Hawkins / Ella Fitzgerald
20. Pompton Turnpike - Charlie Barnet / Louis Jordan
21. Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie
22. Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees) - Ink Spots
23. Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe
24. Never No Lament - Duke Ellington
25. Night And Day - Billie Holiday
26. Key To The Highway - Jazz Gillum
27. Romance In The Dark - Lil Green
28. In A Mellotone - Duke Ellington
29. It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red
30. Nuages - Django Reinhardt
31. Boog It - Glenn Miller (Marion Hutton) / Gene Krupa (Irene Day) / Cab Calloway
32. Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller
33. I Miss You So - Cats and the Fiddle
34. After Hours - Erskine Hawkins
35. Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues - Earl Hines
36. Red Wagon - Count Basie
37. Stop Pretending (So Hep You See) - Ink Spots / Buddy Johnson (Mack Sisters)
38. Down The Road A-Piece - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
39. Ko-Ko - Duke Ellington
40. The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie
41. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Glenn Miller
42. Slow Freight - Glenn Miller / Benny Carter
43. The Man I Love - Billie Holiday
44. On The Sunny Side of The Street - King Cole Trio
45. L'accordeoniste - Edith Piaf
46. The Woodpecker Song - Glenn Miller / Andrews Sisters
47. Corrine, Corrina - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
48. Cotton Tail - Duke Ellington
49. Imagination - Glenn Miller
50. Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller
51. I've Been Dealing With The Devil - Sonny Boy Williamson
52. So Long - Charioteers
53. The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Harry James
54. Flying Home - Lionel Hampton (Ziggy Elman - trumpet)
55. Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington
56. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
57. Wham (Re-Bop Boom Bam) - Jimmie Lunceford / Andy Kirk / Teddy Wilson
58. Please Mr. Johnson - Buddy & Ella Johnson
59. Make Believe Ballroom Time - Glenn Miller
60. Rhumboogie - Andrews Sisters
61. Big Beaver - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
62. Don't You Lie To Me - Tampa Red
63. You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business - Louis Jordan
64. Number 19 - Earl Hines
65. Raining on The Mountain - Delmore Brothers
66. Do I Worry? - Ink Spots
67. Old Black Joe - Mills Brothers
68. A Chicken Ain't Nothin But A Bird - Louis Jordan
69. Celery Stalks at Midnight - Will Bradley
70. Only Forever - Bing Crosby
71. Where Was I - Charlie Barnet
72. Sierra Sue - Bing Crosby
73. I'm Nobody's Baby - Judy Garland
74. Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley)
75. Dolemite - Erskine Hawkins
76. Juneteenth Jamboree - Louis Jordan
77. Chain Gang Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
78. Black Train Blues - Bukka White
79. Trade Winds - Bing Crosby
80. Ferryboat Serenade - Andrews Sisters
81. Deep Forest - Earl Hines
82. Sleep - Benny Carter
83. How High The Moon - Benny Goodman (Helen Forrest)
84. Central Avenue Breakdown - Lionel Hampton
85. Jack The Bellboy - Lionel Hampton
86. No Name Jive - Glen Gray
87. Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
88. I Want A Little Girl - Count Basie
89, Junction Blues - Erskine Hawkins
90. Just A Jitterbug - Five Breezes
91. Polka Dots & Moonbeams - Tommy Dorsey (Frank Sinatra)
92. Swingin' On C - Jimmie Lunceford
93. Night Hop - Benny Carter
94. With The Wind and The Rain In Your Hair - Bob Chester (Dolores O'Neill)
95. Digging My Potatoes No. 2 - Washboard Sam
96. Memories of You - Ink Spots
97. New Highway No. 51 - Tommy McClennan
98. Root Man Blues - Walter Davis
99. What is That She Got? - Big Bill Broonzy
100. Blowin' Down This Road - Woody Guthrie

101. New Rocky Mountain Blues - Leroy's Buddy (Bill Gaither)
102. Who's Sorry Now - Hoosier Hot Shots
103. Lead Me To That Rock - Mitchell's Christian Singers
104. Penthouse In The Basement - Louis Jordan
105. Yes Indeed - Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell
106. Jake, What A Snake - Louis Jordan
107. Gone With "What" Wind? - Benny Goodman
108. Get Your Boots Laced, Papa - Woody Herman
109. Six White Horses - Bill Monroe
110. Where The Blue of The Night (Meets The Gold of The Day) - Bing Crosby
111. Tush Hog Blues - Bo Carter
112. Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street - Charlie Barnet (Mary Ann McCall)
113. W.P.A. - Louis Armstrong & Mills Brothers
114. I Get A Kick Outa Corn - Tiny Little
115. Soft Winds - Benny Goodman
116. Piney Brown Blues - Joe Turner and His Fly Cats
117. Fifteen Minute Intermission - Cab Calloway
118. Vigilante Man - Woody Guthrie
119. Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Bing Crosby
120. The Gaucho Serenade - Dick Todd / Glenn Miller


Bruce's Choice (An unheralded great record from 1940)
T-Bone Blues - Les Hite Orchestra (T-Bone Walker)

[nicolas]

Nick, some of your top 20 turned out not to be from 1940.

Thanks for the info. Could you tell me which ones if you have the time?

And what are the sources you use for release dates ? I have a lot of information about recording dates, but not too many about release dates

[SavoyBG]

Nick, some of your top 20 turned out not to be from 1940.

Thanks for the info. Could you tell me which ones if you have the time?

And what are the sources you use for release dates ? I have a lot of information about recording dates, but not too many about release dates

I use RYM and also this site:

http://www.78discography.com/

as well as a lot of books that I have here.

These records....

10. Ida Cox - Last Miles Blues
13. Art Tatum - Tiger Rag
16. Moon Mullican - Pipeliner Blues

The Ida Cox was from 1941. http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ida_cox

On the Mullican there seems to have been a version recorded in 1940, but I can't find any info on a release. He did the song many times and other versions came out on King and maybe Capitol, but I don't see any 1940 release.

"Tiger Rag" seems to be from 1933:

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single ... uis_blues/

[Honorio]

SavoyBG, nicolas, I just made a new thread about web pages where you can find release dates.

[SavoyBG]

The list is now up:

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/bg_hi ... ts_40.html

[Henry]

The list is now up:

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/bg_hi ... ts_40.html

Savoy - I very much appreciate you bringing DDD to the more focused attention of the forum. I have frequently found the lists there to be very helpful in my effort to expand my musical horizons.

[SavoyBG]

The list is now up:

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/bg_hi ... ts_40.html

Savoy - I very much appreciate you bringing DDD to the more focused attention of the forum. I have frequently found the lists there to be very helpful in my effort to expand my musical horizons.

There's over 50 lists there that I edit. Here's an interesting one that I did last year:

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_ ... ngles.html

[SavoyBG]

Bad news guys. I just discovered that "The Midnight Special" by Lead Belly is actually from 1941. I had to delete it from the 1940 list.

The record was recorded in mid-1940 but was not released until after a couple of other Victor records that were recorded in Jan 1941, so it could not have been released in 1940.