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As the decade progressed, the style was picked up by Floyd Tillman and Hank Williams, and by the end of the 1940s was the predominant style in country music. Hank Williams. Williams, a Butler County, Alabama native, began earning a reputation as both a songwriter and a performing artist. Using traditional honky-tonk themes, Williams grew to ...
Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings 1940 [ edit ] The following songs achieved the highest positions in Billboard magazine 's ' Best Sellers in Stores ' chart, monthly 'Hillbilly Hits' chart, supplemented by 'Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954' and record sales reported on the " Discography of American Historical Recordings " website, [ 1 ...
Trinidadian calypso, Argentinian tango and Dominican merengue and other styles influenced American popular music. Hawaiian music (especially slack-key guitar) enjoyed an early vogue in the 1910s, influencing the developing genre of country music (this is the source of the steel guitar sound that is characteristic of modern country).
1940s in music by country (14 C) / Music festivals established in the 1940s (8 C) 0–9. 1940 in music (12 C, 5 P) 1941 in music (12 C, 6 P) 1942 in music (13 C, 8 P)
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
US BB 1940 #12, US #2 for 6 weeks, 17 total weeks 13: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (Vocal Ray Eberle) "Blueberry Hill" [15] Bluebird 10768: June 13, 1940 () July 1940 () US BB 1940 #13, US #2 for 4 weeks, 19 total weeks 14: Will Bradley and His Orchestra: Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar: Columbia 35530: May 21, 1940 ()
Makes a category of the form "YYY0s in music by country", e.g. Category:1990s in music ... 1940 in music by country (3 C) 1941 in music by country (3 C) 1942 in ...
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