* 1940 – Brian Priestley, English pianist and arranger

* 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

* Arthur De Greef, pianist and composer ( 1862 – 1940 )

Willing to record artists that most other labels would consider to be uncommercial, in December 1943 the label initiated more sessions with artists such as pianist Art Hodes, trumpeter Sidney DeParis, clarinetist Edmond Hall, and Harlem stride pianist James P. Johnson, who was returning to a high degree of musical activity after having largely recovered from a stroke suffered in 1940.

* Rick Allen ( organist ) ( born c. 1940 ), Grammy nominated blues, rock and R & B organist and pianist

In 1940, a little-known jazz pianist by the name of George Shearing made his debut as a sideman in Grappelli's band.

Stephen Kovacevich ( born October 17, 1940 ), who has also been known as Stephen Bishop and Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich is an American classical pianist and conductor.

First to radio producer and announcer Carlton Alsop from 1940 to 1946, and then to jazz pianist and composer Mel Powell from 1946 until his death in 1998.

* October 10-Arthur De Greef, composer and pianist ( d. 1940 )

Sir Donald Francis Tovey ( 17 July 187510 July 1940 ) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist.

He was educated at Dartington Hall School and subsequently studied at the Royal College of Music, where one of his contemporaries and close friends was Malcolm Arnold, who composed in 1940 a Grand Fantasia for flute, trumpet and piano for him and a pianist, premiered in February 1941.

The 1960s saw the emergence of Malcolm John " Mac " Rebennack, Jr. ( born November 21, 1940 ), better known by the stage name Dr. John a New Orleans born singer / songwriter, pianist and guitarist whose music combined blues, boogie woogie and rock and roll.

* Paul Williams ( composer / pianist ) ( born 1940 ), British composer and pianist

In 1938 he teamed up with pianist Bill Doggett's group, and by 1940 had formed a completely new orchestra, which included Doggett and drummer " Panama " Francis.

* Egil Kapstad ( born 1940 ), Norwegian Jazz pianist, composer and arranger

He worked for a year as a medical orderly in the army and then came back to Paris in 1940 where he worked as a pianist, arranger and music teacher and in 1942 conducted the choir of the Paris Opera.

* Julius Eastman ( 1940 – 1990 ), African-American composer, pianist, vocalist and dancer

Arthur De Greef ( 10 October 186229 August 1940 ) was a Belgian pianist and composer.

* Stephen Kovacevich ( born 1940 ), concert pianist, formerly named Stephen Bishop

Juraj Beneš ( 2 March 1940 in Trnava – 11 September 2004 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.

In 1940, a resident trio was formed that included the pianist Eddie Heywood, along with Zutty Singleton, and Jimmy Hamilton.

* Giancarlo Cardini (* 1940 ), Italian pianist and composer

He toured the Midwest in 1939 and 1940 with the Les Hite band, which accompanied the likes of Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller.

*" Blueberry Hill " ( song ), a 1940 song popularized by Glenn Miller and later by Fats Domino

" Blueberry Hill " is a popular song published in 1940 best remembered for its 1950s rock n ' roll version by Fats Domino.

Between stints with Waller, Casey worked with Teddy Wilson from 1939 to 1940.

In his early career he focused on serious literature, publishing ( in 1935 ) a biography of the lesser English poet Bryan Waller Procter and in 1940, co-editing ( with Raymond F. Howes ) a series of observations by contemporaries about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge the Talker.

Roy Waller ( 1940 / 41 – 6 July 2010 ) was a regular radio presenter on BBC Radio Norfolk and was the main football match commentator for the station until 2007.

Remey's life was recorded in his diaries, and in 1940 he provided copies and selected writings to several public libraries.

The lowest temperature was recorded on 17 January 1940, at and the warmest on 29 July 1936, at.

From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station on what is now Angel Island State Park in San Francisco Bay served as the processing center for most of the 56, 113 Chinese immigrants who are recorded as immigrating or returning from China ; upwards of 30 % more who showed up were returned to China.

From 1938 to 1940, he recorded frequently in New York and Chicago for the Vocalion label.

Bukka White's " Fixin ' to Die ," recorded in Chicago in 1940, is driven by a syncopated washboard backup.

He recorded his own " It's Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby " with Benny Goodman in 1940 and nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a successful popular song composer.

Norrington claims that vibrato in the earliest recordings is used only selectively, as an expressive device ; the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra were not recorded using vibrato comparable to modern vibrato until 1935, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra not until 1940.

The first recorded congenital case was not until 1923, and the first adult case not until 1940.

* Duke Ellington recorded an instrumental version of the song in 1933 and another version with singer Ivie Anderson in 1940.

In 1940, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded " Be Happy ", a song Louis Prima co-wrote.

On July 17, 2005 the high temperature at Needles was, the hottest temperature recorded in Needles since record keeping began in 1940, breaking the previous all-time record high of four days earlier ( which broke the record of set on July 2, 1967 ).

The hottest temperature recorded in Osborne was 116 ° F ( 47 ° C ) in 1940 ; the coldest temperature recorded was-31 ° F (- 35 ° C ) in 1989.

The hottest temperature recorded in Plainville was 114 ° F ( 46 ° C ) in 1940 ; the coldest temperature recorded was-29 ° F (- 34 ° C ) in 1989.

A plat for the settlement was not officially recorded until 1940.

Nighthawk recorded a song called " Friars Point Blues " in 1940.

Additional releases included a number of Beethoven symphonies recorded with the New York Philharmonic during the 1930s, a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 on February 20, 1936, at which Rudolf Serkin made his New York debut, and one of the most celebrated underground Toscanini recordings of all, the legendary 1940 broadcast version of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which has better soloists ( Zinka Milanov, Jussi Bjoerling, both in their prime ) and a more powerful style than the 1953 RCA studio recording, although the microphone placement was kinder to the soloists in 1953.

When the entire Ellington organization signed with Victor in 1940, Bigard recorded for Bluebird under his own name.

Other labels Nichols recorded for included Edison 1926, Victor 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931 ( individual sessions ), Bluebird 1934, 1939, back to Brunswick for a session in 1934, Variety 1937, and finally OKeh in 1940.

His earthy song, " Junker's Blues ", with its stories about needles and reefer and the Angola prison farm was recorded in 1940 by Champion Jack Dupree, who called Drive ' Em Down his " father ", citing him as " teaching me his style ".

In September 1940, he had an eight bar solo on " Practice Makes Perfect ", recorded by Billie Holiday.

* That's When Your Heartaches Begin, by William Raskin, George Brown ( Billy Hill ), and Fred Fisher, Fred Fisher Music Co. ( 1940 ) ( an Ink Spots tune recorded in 1957 by Elvis )

By the 1930 ’ s, sightings were rare, and in 1940 the last definite winter sighting was recorded.