Anyone who spends Sunday nights with The Sopranos can sing "Woke Up This Morning." Although the song's genesis dates back several years and its creators, A3, assure it has nothing to do with gangsters, it will now forever be linked with America's best-loved crime family since the Corleones. But though this may be a burgeoning phenomenon on TV, music and mobsters have been in cahoots on the big screen for years. In the movies, crooners, rockers and rappers have all dallied in the underworld. Much of the time the effect is fleeting, forgotten as soon as you leave the theaters. But sometimes a song is used so effectively it becomes inextricable from the film in which it appeared. Here are ten that most stuck with us:

Song: "Love Theme From The Godfather"
Film: The Godfather
Year: 1972
Songwriter: Nino Rota
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Easily the most recognizable piece of music from any mobster flick, the mellifluous opening notes of Nino Rota's "Love Theme" immediately conjure images of family betrayals and bloody retribution. But it actually pops up in The Godfather in one of the movie's most tender scenes. Exiled for his own protection after whacking rival mob boss Sollozzo and corrupt police captain McCluskey, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) wanders the Sicilian countryside while the haunting composition underscores his homesickness, as well as his first encounter with Apollonia, the Mediterranean beauty he will quite literally "take" as his wife. Reprised in a vocal version in The Godfather Part III, the "Love Theme" has become the signature tune of the Godfather saga.

Song: "Layla"
Film: Goodfellas
Year: 1990
Songwriter(s): Clapton/Gordon
Performed by: Derek and the Dominos
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Always a proponent of using popular music in his films, Martin Scorsese employs four decades' worth to traverse eras in this period epic. Everything from Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" to Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" to Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" gets dusted off for the soundtrack. But the piano coda from "Layla" is used particularly well as the film details hothead Tommy DeVito's (Joe Pesci) fall from favor. In the end, on the verge of being a made man, Tommy's reckless deviation from the family's strict code of honor buys him a bullet in the brain. Sometimes, being a wise guy ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Song: "Danny Boy"
Film: Miller's Crossing
Year: 1990
Songwriter(s): Trad.
Performed by: Frank Patterson
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This involved story about Irish, Italian and Jewish gangsters during the Prohibition was a refreshing switch from the New York wise guy films to which audiences had become accustomed. The film's shadow style could be traced to the gangster flicks of the Thirties but directors Joel and Ethan Coen delivered enough violence and double-cross to match any modern-day mob pic. The centerpiece, of course, was the shootout set to late, great Irish tenor Frank Patterson's rendition of "Danny Boy." Who could forget the image of Irish mob boss Leo (Albert Finney) walking his tree-lined street in his bathrobe while tommy-gunning his would-be assassins?

Song: "Stuck in the Middle With You"
Film: Reservoir Dogs
Year: 1992
Songwriter(s): Egan/Rafferty
Performed by: Stealers Wheel
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Quentin Tarantino's tale of a jewel heist gone wrong introduced audiences to the director's Seventies pop culture sensibility and flair for heightened violence. Though there was plenty of room for debate about which of the film's blood baths was the most gut-wrenching, one moment had people talking long after the credits rolled. The sadistic Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) taunts a captive cop before tuning in this 1974 nugget and giving him a shave Van Gogh style -- just for the hell of it. Depending on your intestinal fortitude, it was either unnervingly funny or one of the most chilling scenes in cinema, but one thing was for sure: You never heard this song the same way again.

Song: "Colors"
Film: Colors
Year: 1988
Songwriter(s): Glenn/Marrow
Performed by: Ice T
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One of the first films to not romanticize gang life, Colors depicted it so vividly that there were reports of real-life violence outside theaters. Indeed, the video release featured the reassuring disclaimer, "Now watch in the safety of your own home." As part of the LAPD's gang division, police officers Bob Hodges (Robert Duvall) and Danny McGavin (Sean Penn) get caught up in the struggle between the Crips and the Bloods. But if the seemingly unwinnable war they wage left audiences disturbed, Ice T's theme song -- with its line "The gangs of LA will never die/Just multiply" -- did nothing to dispel the feeling as the credits rolled.

Song: "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
Film: Casino
Year: 1995
Songwriter(s): Jagger/Richards
Performed by: The Rolling Stones