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Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads: Sung by Woody Guthrie (Volume 1)
Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads: Sung by Woody Guthrie (Volume 1)
Jul • LP
100
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(138)
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads: Sung by Woody Guthrie (Volume 2)
Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads: Sung by Woody Guthrie (Volume 2)
Jul • LP
100
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(102)
Lead Belly and the Golden Gate Quartet - "The Midnight Special" and Other Southern Prison Songs
Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet
"The Midnight Special" and Other Southern Prison Songs
1940 • LP
70
user score
(47)
Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg, Erika Stiedry-Wagner, Rudolf Kolisch, Stefan Auber, Eduard Steuermann, Leonard Posella & Kalman Bloch
Pierrot Lunaire
1940 • LP
64
user score
(30)
Igor Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York & Igor Stravinsky
Le sacre du printemps
Sep 11 • LP
78
user score
(30)
Carmen Miranda - The South American Way
Carmen Miranda
The South American Way
1940 • LP
60
user score
(20)
Leigh Harline - Walt Disney's Pinocchio
Leigh Harline & Ned Washington
Walt Disney's Pinocchio
Feb 9 • Soundtrack
67
user score
(9)
Louis Armstrong - King Louis
Louis Armstrong
King Louis
1940 • Compilation
73
user score
(7)
Judy Garland - The Judy Garland Souvenir Album
Judy Garland
The Judy Garland Souvenir Album
1940 • Compilation
60
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(7)
Bessie Smith - Empress of the Blues
Bessie Smith
Empress of the Blues
Sep • Compilation
70
user score
(7)
Josh White - Harlem Blues
Josh White
Harlem Blues
1940 • LP
70
user score
(7)
Béla Bartók / Joseph Szigeti / Benny Goodman - Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
Benny Goodman, Béla Bartók & Joseph Szigeti
Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
1940 • LP
78
user score
(6)
Josh White & His Carolinians - Chain Gang
Josh White
Chain Gang
Jun • LP
80
user score
(6)
Art Tatum - Piano Solos
Art Tatum
Piano Solos
Apr • LP
71
user score
(5)
Lecuona Cuban Boys & Orquesta Antobal - Congas & Rumbas
Lecuona Cuban Boys & Orquesta Antobal
Congas & Rumbas
1940 • LP
63
user score
(5)
Josef Marais - Songs of the South African Veld
Josef Marais
Songs of the South African Veld
1940 • LP
39
user score
(4)
Elvira Rios With Jose Morand And His Orchestra - Tropic Nights
Elvira Ríos & Jose Morand And His Orchestra
Tropic Nights
May 22 • LP
73
user score
(4)
Carl Kress - Original Guitar Solos
Carl Kress
Original Guitar Solos
1940 • LP
74
user score
(4)
Marlene Dietrich - Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
1940 • LP
48
user score
(4)
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rapsodie for Piano and Orchestra on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Philadelphia Orchestra & Leopold Stokowski
Rapsodie for Piano and Orchestra on a Theme of Paganini
1940 • LP
91
user score
(3)
Jelly Roll Morton - New Orleans Memories
Jelly Roll Morton
New Orleans Memories
1940 • LP
60
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(3)
Ernst Busch - 6 Songs for Democracy: Discos de las Brigadas Internacionales
Ernst Busch
6 Songs for Democracy: Discos de las Brigadas Internacionales
Jul • LP
49
user score
(3)
Count Basie - Count Basie at the Piano
Count Basie
Count Basie at the Piano
1940 • LP
72
user score
(3)
Richard Rodgers - Smash Song Hits by Rodgers & Hart
Rodgers & Hart
Smash Song Hits by Rodgers & Hart
1940 • LP
38
user score
(2)
Hildegarde - Songs by Vernon Duke
Hildegarde
Songs by Vernon Duke
1940 • LP
55
user score
(2)
Woody Herman And His Orchestra - Blues on Parade
Woody Herman
Blues on Parade
1940 • LP
70
user score
(2)
Kansas City Jazz - Kansas City Jazz
Kansas City Jazz
Kansas City Jazz
Aug 18 • Compilation
47
user score
(1)
Bing Crosby - Favorite Hawaiian Songs
Bing Crosby
Favorite Hawaiian Songs
1940 • LP
60
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(1)
Duke Ellington - The Duke 1940, Vol. 1
Duke Ellington
The Duke 1940, Vol. 1
Jan 1 • Live
85
user score
(1)
The Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski - Szostakowicz: Symphony No. 5
Leopold Stokowski & Philadelphia Orchestra
Szostakowicz: Symphony No. 5
Jan • LP
60
user score
(1)
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Alec Wilder
Alec Wilder Octet
1940 • LP
44
user score
(1)
Diosa Costello - "The Latin Bombshell": An Album of Favorite Rumbas and Congas
Diosa Costello
"The Latin Bombshell": An Album of Favorite Rumbas and Congas
1940 • LP
47
user score
(1)
Carlos Molina - Tangos and Other Latin Rhythms
Carlos Molina
Tangos and Other Latin Rhythms
1940 • LP
68
user score
(1)
Eddie South - Dark Angel of the Violin
Eddie South
Dark Angel of the Violin
1940 • LP
64
user score
(1)
Duke Ellington - The Duke
Duke Ellington
The Duke
1940 • Compilation
75
user score
(1)
Paul Robeson - Ballad For Americans
Paul Robeson
Ballad For Americans
1940 • LP
40
user score
(1)
Ethel Waters - The Music of Cabin in the Sky
Ethel Waters
The Music of Cabin in the Sky
1940 • LP
70
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(1)
Bing Crosby - Star Dust
Bing Crosby
Star Dust
1940 • LP
72
user score
(1)
Lee Wiley - Cole Porter Songs By Lee Wiley
Lee Wiley
Cole Porter Songs By Lee Wiley
1940 • LP
Bruz Fletcher - Bruz Fletcher
Bruz Fletcher
Bruz Fletcher
1940 • LP
Béla Bartók - Performance At The Library of Congress
Béla Bartók & Joseph Szigeti
Performance At The Library of Congress
Apr 13 • Live
Bing Crosby - Ballad for Americans
Bing Crosby
Ballad for Americans
1940 • EP
Bechet - Spanier Big Four - Bechet - Spanier Big Four
Bechet - Spanier Big Four
Bechet - Spanier Big Four
1940 • LP
Bing Crosby - Christmas Album
Bing Crosby
Christmas Album
1940 • Holiday
London Symphony Orchestra / Artur Rubinstein / John Barbirolli - Chopin: Concerto No. 1 in E Minor "Op. 11"
London Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Rubinstein & John Barbirolli
Chopin: Concerto No. 1 in E Minor "Op. 11"
1940 • LP
Jascha Heifetz, The NBC Symphony Orchestra & Arturo Toscanini
Beethoven: Concerto in D Major
Nov • LP
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