‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has revealed that he recorded music for at least one episode of the unreleased series Star Wars Detours, as well as voicing the character 4-LOM on the show.
“We were working on a Star Wars musical, that was a third-season show, we were writing songs, and all of a sudden, it was like, ‘This is not gonna happen.,'” Yankovic confirmed while on The George Lucas Talk Show. When asked for more details about the music, the musician confessed, “I don’t know that I’m allowed [to talk about it]. There were, gosh, at least a half a dozen or more songs as part of the musical and the various characters in the show. We actually recorded them singing their songs, and that was about a week before we found out that the show was not happening.”
The musician has crafted parodies of a variety of iconic pop songs over the years, leading the hosts to ask Yankovic if the songs he recorded were also parodies of familiar tunes, to which he confirmed, “It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure they were all original compositions.”
Yankovic voiced 4-LOM in the series, though with it being more than a decade ago that he recorded the music, he couldn’t recall the complete roster of singers.
“It really was a while ago, I’m not sure that I was actually even in that particular episode, so probably not,” Yankovic admitted as to whether he sang for the episode. “I think probably most of the principal actors in the series were involved.”
It’s been ten years since we first learnt about Star Wars Detours and we have no news if the series will ever see the light of day.
