Whats the story behind the O Sole Mio/Its Now Or Never medley?
Well, we were sitting around at Graceland one night, and joking what his best selling record was. We were guessing what it might be, and he said: ‘It was a song my mother used to play for me on a wind-up Victrola, an Italian tune by Enrico Caruso’. And I said: ‘Do you mean’, and I went into ‘O Sole Mio’. He said: ‘Do you know that one?’, and I said: ‘Yeah, my grandmother used to play it for me too, but not on a wind-up Victrola!’ (laughs). He said: ‘Well, would you sing it for me?’. So I basically sang it, and he said: ‘That’s great!’. He didn’t tell me, but the first time we were on the stage on tour, he comes over and pulls that out of his hat! He just decided he wanted me to do it. It scared me to death, because I had no idea he was gonna do that. I asked James: ‘Give me the key here’ (laughs), and he strummed the key, and I went and did the thing like I knew what I was doing. He obviously liked it so well we did it quite often! (laughs). So that’s how that happened. Another song th
