Woke up This Morning - wikipedia Woke up This Morning This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2013 ) `` Woke Up This Morning '' Single by Alabama 3 from the album Exile on Coldharbour Lane Released June 1997 Format CD single Recorded Genre Electronica, acid jazz, trip hop Length 5 : 18 4 : 05 ( Chosen One Mix ) Label One Little Indian Songwriter ( s ) Jake Black Rob Spragg Producer ( s ) Alabama 3 Alabama 3 singles chronology `` Ai n't Going to Goa '' ( 1996 ) `` Woke Up This Morning '' ( 1997 ) `` Speed of the Sound of Loneliness '' ( 1997 ) `` Ai n't Going to Goa '' ( 1996 ) `` Woke Up This Morning '' ( 1997 ) `` Speed of the Sound of Loneliness '' ( 1997 ) `` Woke Up This Morning '' is a song by English band Alabama 3 from their 1997 album Exile on Coldharbour Lane. The song is best known as the opening theme music for The Sopranos, which used the `` Chosen One Mix '' of the song. Contents 1 Background and writing 2 Musical structure 3 Use in other media 4 References Background and writing Described as `` a propulsive hip - hop song complete with Howlin ' Wolf samples and a swelling gospel choir '', the song has been cited as a paradigmatic example of a `` great theme song '', which `` generates anticipation, immediately puts the viewer in a focused frame of mind, and creates the kind of sonic familiarity that breeds audience loyalty. '' Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg wrote the song after hearing about the 1996 murder case of Sara Thornton, who stabbed her husband after two years of abuse, mistreatment and neglect. The song is co-written with Piers Marsh, Simon Edwards and Jake Black. `` We started with a Howlin ' Wolf loop, but a lot of blues lyrics are quite misogynist, '' Spragg explained. `` So I turned it round to be about a woman who 's had enough and gets a gun -- it 's quite ironic that it 's become a New Jersey gangster anthem. '' Musical structure This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2017 ) The song is in 4 / 4 time and in the key of F minor. It uses combinations of other styles such as electronic music and blues. During the breakdown, there 's an electronic chord progression in F major while the lyrics ' melodic line is in F minor. It fades out with the electric chord progression in the tonic major. Use in other media In film The song is used in the film The House ( 2017 ) In music Rapper Nas sampled `` Woke Up This Morning '' for his 2001 hit `` Got Ur Self A... '' The song is also interpolated in Beenie Man 's 2002 single `` Get Yourself a Gun '', featuring Gringo Jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti has a rendition of `` Woke Up This Morning ' '' on his album Lucky to Be Me An instrumental version of the song was performed by The Brothas & Sistas on the album Woke Up This Morning In sports Arturo Gatti used the song for his ring entrance in his fight against Oscar De La Hoya In television A remixed version of `` Woke Up This Morning '' plays during the opening credits of the HBO television series The Sopranos. `` Since it 's been on The Sopranos, '' Spragg remarked, `` we 've met some nice men in Armani suits with fat hands and eaten some nice Italian food. But we 're very happy to be associated with a programme of that calibre. While in no way endorsing the use of guns in any fetishistic manner, obviously. '' ( On the Region 4 DVD release of season 1 of the Sopranos, the music video to `` Woke Up This Morning '' is included as a special feature. It is incorrectly credited as being performed by `` Alabama 5 ''. ) A shortened alternate version of `` Woke Up This Morning '' can be heard for nearly 50 seconds in The Simpsons episode `` Poppa 's Got a Brand New Badge '', while Fat Tony and his gang are on the ride to the Simpsons ' house. The sequence is a parody of the opening sequence of The Sopranos. * `` Woke Up This Morning '' is also heard in the later Simpsons episode `` The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer '', which guest - starred Sopranos regulars Michael Imperioli and Joe Pantoliano `` Woke Up This Morning '' was used in an episode of the BBC series Top Gear, in which the team were driving through Florida `` Woke Up This Morning '' was used in the episode `` Ghosts '' ( season 2, episode 8 ) of the Netflix series Lilyhammer, in which Frank Tagliano ( Steven Van Zandt ) and his Norwegian crew are driving through New York City The song is parodied in the episode `` The Dabba Don '' of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, which parodies various mob stereotypes, including The Sopranos, using The Flintstones References Jump up ^ `` Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning ( Chosen One Mix ) ''. Discogs. Retrieved 2017 - 06 - 24. Jump up ^ Murray Smith, `` Just What Is It That Makes Tony Soprano Such An Appealing, Attractive Murderer '', in Ward E. Jones and Samantha Vice, eds., Ethics at the Cinema ( Oxford University Press, 2010 ), ISBN 978 - 0199793167, p. 78. Excerpts available at Google Books. Jump up ^ Ron Sobel and Dick Weissman, Music Publishing : The Roadmap to Royalties ( Routledge, 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 0203895689, p. 101. Excerpts available at Google Books. Jump up ^ Duncan Campbell, `` Face off '', The Guardian, September 27, 2007. Jump up ^ David Johannson, `` Homeward Bound '' Those Soprano Titles Come Heavy ``, in David Lavery, ed., Reading The Sopranos : Hit TV from HBO ( I.B. Tauris, 2006 ), ISBN 978 - 1845111212, pp. 35 - 36. Excerpts available at Google Books. Jump up ^ Q, May 2001 Jump up ^ Q ( May 2001 ) Jump up ^ Gilbert, Gerard ( June 14, 2011 ). `` TV credit where credits are due ''. The Independent. 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Question: who sang the theme song to the sopranos
Answer: Alabama 3