Tribute to Abbey Road

Release: 1982 -

Tribute to Abbey Road is a Rock-afire Explosion Showtape that was released in early September of 1982 for ShowBiz Pizza Place stores.https://www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/spp/spp_bulletin01.pdf It features six segments covering a wide variety of songs of different genres, ending with a 14-minute long medley of songs from the B side of the Beatles 1969 album ‘Abbey Road’. This tape also includes three original songs written by members of the production crew.http://www.showbizpizza.com/review/rae/1982_abbeyroad.html

Production

When producing the Abbey Road segment, CEI rented 23 musicians to perform additional instruments, specifically listed are the horns and strings. During Louisiana, CEI moved their drums into a warehouse for recording to provide proper reverberation. Child of the Rock has 15 children from a local elementary school provide the backup vocals.⁽¹⁾ Three songs on the tape would be original productions by The Noize. Louisiana would be written by Burt ‘Sal’ Wilson, Child of the Rock would be written by Duke Chauppetta, and Goofy Gas by Jeff ‘Claude’ Howell.⁽⁰⁾ The showtape would be completed in late August.⁽¹⁾

Show List

Segment 1
1. Elvis Medley
Segment 2
1. Cotton Fields
2. Louisiana Intro Skit
3. Louisiana
Segment 3
1. Tomorrow
2. Maybe
Segment 4
1. Child of the Rock
Segment 5
1. Goofy Gas
Segment 6
1. Abbey Road Medley

Trivia

This show was the first to feature Shalisa Sloan as the voice of Mitzi. She was only 11-years-old when she got the part.
This show was also the first to feature Rick Bailey as a lead vocalist, although not as Beach Bear, but as the Moon in ‘Golden Slumbers’. Previously, he had done instrumental work and back-up vocals for the band, but this is his first time singing lead. He would end up replacing Aaron Fechter as the voice of Beach Bear in the following showtape, RAE Christmas '82.
This is Aaron Fechter’s final show recording any new vocals for Beach Bear. Anytime his Beach Bear voice is heard following this tape, it’s through reused segments.
All of the segments from this showtape would go on to be reused in future compilation tapes.
At the time of it’s release, the Abbey Road Medley was the longest individual segment on a Rock-afire showtape, clocking in at 14-minutes. This title has since been taken by longer tracks, however.

References

https://youtu.be/c6zUGfr4BRE?si=pk1q2xQdjPFpgwBJ

Official filming of the 'Abbey Road Medley' segment from the Tribute to Abbey Road showtape at the Creative Engineering R&D Office.

Aug. 5, 2017

Abbey Road Medley

[Song: You Never Give Me Your Money.]

Billy Bob: (Singing)

You never give me your money

You only give me your funny paper

And in the middle of negotiations

You break down

Billy Bob & Looney Bird: (Singing)

I never give you my number

I only give you my situation

And in the middle of investigation

I break down

Fatz: (Singing)

Out of college, money spent

See no future, pay no rent

All the money’s gone, nowhere to go

Any jobber got the sack

Monday morning, turning back

Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go

Billy Bob: (Singing)

Oh, that magic feeling

Nowhere to go

Oh, that magic feeling

Nowhere to go

All: (Singing)

Ah, ah, Oo

Dook Larue: (Singing)

One sweet dream

Pick up the bags, get in the limousine

Soon we’ll be away from here

Step on the gas and wipe that tear away

One sweet dream came true today

Came true today

Came true today, yes, it did

All: (Singing)

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to heaven

[Song: Sun King.]

All: (Singing)

Ooh, here comes the sun king

Here comes the sun king

Mitzi Mozzarella: (Singing)

Everybody’s laughing

Everybody’s happy

All: (Singing)

Here comes the sun king

Quando para mucho mi amore de felice corazón

Cuesto obrigado tanta mucho que canite carousel

[Song: Mean Mr. Mustard]

Earl: (Singing)

Mean Mr. Mustard lives in the park

Shaves in the dark

Trying to save paper

Sleeps in a hole in the road

Saving up to buy him some clothes

Keeps a ten bob note up his nose

Such a mean old man

His sister Pam works in a shop

She never stops

She’s a go getter

Takes him out to look at the queen

Always shouts out something obscene

Such a dirty old man

Dirty old man

[Song: Polythene Pam]

Beach Bear: (Singing)

You should see Polythene Pam

She’s not good-looking, but she looks like a man

Well you should see her in drag, dressed in a polythene bag

Yes, you should see Polythene Pam

All: (Singing)

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah

[Song: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.]

Off stage voice:

Oh, look out!

Mitzi Mozzarella: (Singing)

I came in through the bathroom window

Protected by a silver spoon

But now I suck my thumb and wonder

By the banks of my own lagoon

All: (Singing)

Didn’t anybody tell her?

Didn’t anybody see?

Sunday’s on the phone to Monday

Tuesday’s on the phone to me

Mitzi Mozzarella: (Singing)

And so I quit the police department

Got myself a steady job

And though she tried her best to help me

Billy Bob: (Singing)

She could steal, but she could not rob

All: (Singing)

Didn’t anybody tell her?

Didn’t anybody see?

Sunday’s on the phone to Monday

Tuesday’s on the phone to me

Oh yeah

[Song: Golden Slumbers.]

Billy Bob: (Singing)

Once there was a way

To get back homeward

Once there was a way

To get back home

Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry

And I will sing a lullaby

Moon: (Singing)

Golden slumbers fill your eyes

Smiles await you when you rise

Sleep pretty darling, do not cry

Billy Bob: (Singing)

And I will sing a lullaby

[Song: Carry That Weight.]

All: (Singing)

Boy, you’re gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight a long time

Boy, you’re gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight a long time

I never give you my pillow

I only send you my invitations

And in the middle of the celebrations, I break down

Off Stage voice: Sing it, ya natey!

All: (Singing)

Boy, you’re gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight a long time

Boy, you’re gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight a long time

[Song: The End.]

Moon: (Singing)

Oh yeah

Alright

Are you going to be in my dreams

Tonight

All: (Singing)

Love you

Fatz Geronimo: (Singing)

Folks

All: (Singing)

And in the end

The love you take

Is equal to the love you make

[Song: Her Majesty]

Billy Bob: (Singing)

Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl

But she doesn’t have a lot to say

Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl

But she changes from day to day

I want to tell her I love her a lot

But I gotta get a bellyful of wine

Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl

Some day I’m gonna make her mine oh yeah

Someday I’m gonna make her mine