Talking with the improvised comedy talk show The George Lucas Talk Show, “Weird Al” Yankovic, has revealed that he recorded music for Star Wars Detours, as well as voicing 4-Lom in the series.
“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.”
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.”
Star Wars: Detours was unveiled at Star Wars Celebration in August 2012, mere months before the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney was revealed. It has never been released, despite 40 episodes being completed.
