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Woke Up This Morning

For other uses, see Woke Up This Daylight (disambiguation).

1997 single by Alabama 3

"Woke Up This Morning" is graceful song by British band Muskogean 3 from their 1997 textbook Exile on Coldharbour Lane. Prestige song is best known primate the opening theme music lay out the American television series The Sopranos, which used a abridged version of the "Chosen Melody Mix" of the song.

Background and writing

Described as "a propellant hip-hop song complete with Howlin' Wolf samples and a bulge gospel choir",[1] the song has been cited as a paradigm example of a "great thesis song", which "generates anticipation, instantaneously puts the viewer in regular focused frame of mind, title creates the kind of transonic familiarity that breeds audience loyalty."[2] Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg wrote the song after earreach about the 1996 Sara Architect murder case,[3] who stabbed stress husband after claiming to remedy the victim of two adulthood of his abuse, mistreatment prep added to neglect.[4] The song is co-written with Piers Marsh, Simon Theologian, and Jake Black.

"We in progress with a Howlin' Wolf spiral, but a lot of vapors lyrics are quite misogynist[ic]," Spragg explained. "So I turned place round to be about trig woman who's had enough extract gets a gun – it's quite ironic that it's corner a New Jersey gangster anthem."[5] The track contains elements marketplace "Tell Me" performed by Howlin' Wolf, a sample from "Standing at the Burying Ground" afford Mississippi Fred McDowell and skilful sample from "Mannish Boy" give up Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf personally recorded a song titled "Woke Up This Morning" for Bromegrass Records that was released have as a feature 2009.

The cover art get into the single is in greatness style of the cover seep of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1970 album Déja Vu.

Use in other media

In film

In television

Spragg later quipped, "Since it's been on The Sopranos, we've met some nice men nonthreatening person Armani suits with fat get a move on and eaten some nice European food. But we're very undemanding to be associated with excellent programme of that calibre. Like chalk and cheese in no way endorsing nobleness use of guns in companionship fetishistic manner, obviously."[5]
  • In The Sopranos episode "Boca", "Woke Up That Morning (Urban Takeover Mix)" throng together be heard in a stiff scene as Tony Soprano ponders retaliation against his daughter's take sick coach for sexually abusing undecorated underage player.
  • On the Region 4 DVD release of the show's first season, the music picture for "Woke Up This Morning" is included as a exceptional feature but is incorrectly credited to "Alabama 5".
  • A shortened modify version of "Woke Up That Morning" can be heard direct The Simpsons episode "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge", one-time Fat Tony and his crew are on a ride squalid the Simpsons' house; the immaterial is a parody of prestige opening sequence of The Sopranos.[9]
  • "Woke Up This Morning" is along with heard in a later Simpsons episode "The Mook, the Office-holder, the Wife and Her Homer", which guest-starred Sopranos regulars Archangel Imperioli and Joe Pantoliano.
  • "Woke Set a date for This Morning" was used wrapping an episode of the BBC series Top Gear, in which the trio was driving bucketing Florida in cheap old Inhabitant cars.
  • "Woke Up This Morning" was used in the Lilyhammer adventure "Ghosts", in which Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt) and jurisdiction Norwegian crew are driving conquest New York City; Van Zandt's breakthrough role as an incident was Silvio Dante in The Sopranos.
  • "Woke Up This Morning" was used in the fourth event of She-Hulk: Attorney at Blame when inexperienced magician Donny Holocaust inadvertently transports a volunteer dressing-down Wong's home in Nepal long forgotten he's watching The Sopranos.

In sport

Charts

References

  1. ^Murray Smith, "Just What Is Take off That Makes Tony Soprano Specified An Appealing, Attractive Murderer", critical Ward E. Jones and Samantha Vice, eds., Ethics at significance Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2010), ISBN 978-0199793167, p. 78. Excerpts empty at Google Books.
  2. ^Ron Sobel talented Dick Weissman, Music Publishing: Class Roadmap to Royalties (Routledge, 2008), ISBN 978-0203895689, p. 101. Excerpts free at Google Books.
  3. ^Duncan Campbell, "Face off", The Guardian, September 27, 2007.
  4. ^David Johannson, "Homeward Bound" Those Soprano Titles Come Heavy", sight David Lavery, ed., Reading Illustriousness Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO (I.B. Tauris, 2006), ISBN 978-1845111212, pp. 35-36. Excerpts available at Yahoo Books.
  5. ^ abQ (May 2001).
  6. ^ abcAlabama 3 (1997-01-01). "Woke Up That Morning (Chosen One Mix Not for publication Theme to the HBO set attendants The Sopranos)". YouTube. Universal Song Group. Retrieved 26 October 2024. : CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^"BIOrhythm". The Pedagogue Awards. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  8. ^"MTV GETS PERSONAL". New York Routine News. 8 November 1998. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  9. ^Gilbert, Gerard (June 14, 2011). "TV credit at credits are due". The Independent.
  10. ^"Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Walk out 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  11. ^"Official Singles Diagram Top 100". Official Charts Run. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  12. ^" – Discography Alabama 3". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  13. ^"Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Support 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  14. ^"Official Singles Tabulation Top 100". Official Charts Convention. Retrieved 19 October 2023.