Best Songs Ever

What’s your favorite song?
Random Song
Please enter a search term (min. 2 chars)
Activities
iTunes Charts
ø 0 at 0 votes
What’s your rating?

B.B. King

Woke Up This Morning

Blues
  • Blues
  • Jazz
  • Rock
  • Space
  • Musical
song from
1953
  • 1953
  • 1951
  • 1949
  • 1952
  • 1985

Alternative video Spotify
“Woke Up This Morning” is a song by Alabama 3 from their 1997 album Exile on Coldharbour Lane. The song is best known as the opening theme music for the HBO drama series The Sopranos (which used the “Chosen One Mix” that has lyrics in the second person instead of the first). Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg wrote the song after hearing about 1996 murder case of Sara Thornton, who stabbed her husband after 20 years of abuse, mistreatment and neglect. The song is co-written with Jake Black. Contrary to widespread attribution, Leonard Cohen did not write or perform the piece. A number of influential artists are namechecked: * Charles Mingus and the album Pithecanthropus Erectus * J. R. Monterose * Jackie McLean * Eric Dolphy * John Coltrane * Duke Ellington * Lester Young * Billie... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Oh baby, I'm all alone ... Since my baby's been gone ... Oh baby, come on stay with me

Current Rank: ...

Popularity on the Web

Web
YouTube
last.fm
Spotify
0%

Discover

More songs by B.b. King (See Charts): Better Not Look Down, It'S My Own Fault, Miss Martha King, 3 O'Clock Blues, Paying The Cost To Be The Boss, I Want You So Bad, Never Make A Move Too Soon, You Know I Love You, There Is Always One More Time, and Crying Won'T Help You.

Popular in Blues (See Charts): The Voice, A Million Miles Away, Piece Of My Heart, Wedding Bell Blues (Will You Marry Me Bill), Innocent When You Dream, The Thrill Is Gone, Wooden Heart, Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me), Man Of The World, and Learnin' The Blues.

Comments


Use at most three hashtags in your comment to connect the song with a topic (i.e. #live or #workout). It must contain at least one letter. You can view a toplist for every tag.