The Logan Whitehurst Memorial Award for Excellence in Comedy Music

2013 Logan Award Winners

We are proud to announce the win­ners of the 2013 Logan White­hurst Memo­r­i­al Awards for Excel­lence in Com­e­dy Music…

Out­stand­ing Com­e­dy Music Video:
Beau­ty and the Beat — Todrick Hall 

Out­stand­ing Orig­i­nal Com­e­dy Song:
29/31 — Gar­funkel and Oates 

Out­stand­ing Par­o­dy Song:
When You Wish Upon A Death Star — the great Luke Ski 

You can see the con­cert & cer­e­mo­ny via the fol­low­ing video links:

Jered Perez’ YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNenkl6dTDM 

Pow­er Sal­ad’s Ustream: Part 1:
(skip ahead to the 12:00 mark­er for actu­al start of the event)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29682317

Pow­er Sal­ad’s Ustream: Part 2:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29684075

The Fun­ny Music Project has post­ed a stu­dio ver­sion of the Logan White­hurst med­ley which opened this year’s Logan Awards, fea­tur­ing 10 dif­fer­ent acts from the FuMP. You can lis­ten to and down­load it here.

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2013 Logan Award Nominees

Here are the Nom­i­nees for the 2013 Logan White­hurst Memo­r­i­al Awards For Excel­lence In Com­e­dy Music:

Out­stand­ing Com­e­dy Music Video:

Baby Mario & Papa Yoshi — brentalfloss
Beau­ty and the Beat — Todrick Hall
Dumb Ways to Die — Tan­ger­ine Kitty
Rize of the Fenix — Tena­cious D
Rub Some Bacon On It — Rhett & Link

Out­stand­ing Orig­i­nal Com­e­dy Song:

29/31 — Gar­funkel and Oates
I Don’t Mat­ter — Worm Quar­tet
In the 80s — Devo Spice
Kyle, Are You Ian? — Scoot­er Picnic
Write Like The Wind (George R.R. Mar­tin) — Paul & Storm

Out­stand­ing Par­o­dy Song:

Car­ol of the Meh — Smashy Claw
Devo, Are You Shoe­box? — Devo Spice, fea­tur­ing Worm Quartet
The Ped­dler: A Half-Assed Trans­la­tion — Kobi LaCroix
We Were Nev­er Ever Actu­al­ly Togeth­er — Eric Schwartz aka Smooth‑E, feat. Michael Yo
When You Wish Upon A Death Star — the great Luke Ski

The Nom­i­nees were tab­u­lat­ed in secret by our web­mistress Sara Trice, with tie-break­ing votes cast by our per­ma­nent juror, Dr. Demen­to.

The win­ners will be announced at the 3rd Annu­al Logan Awards Cer­e­mony which will be held at MarsCon in Bloom­ing­ton, MN on Sat­ur­day, March 2nd at 4:00 pm as a part of the MarsCon Demen­tia Track. Go to MarsConDementia.com for info on the com­edy music per­for­mance track, and go to MarsCon.com for info on attend­ing the convention.

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Nomination Suggestion submission page closed

Thank you to all the com­e­dy music fans out there who sub­mit­ted their sug­ges­tions for the best com­e­dy songs & music videos of 2012! Now it’s time for our Jurors to go through them and pick our offi­cial Nom­i­nees and Win­ners. I will not be see­ing how the Jurors vote at all, and they know this, so who­ev­er they vote for will not be influ­enced by me. Our web­mistress Sara Trice will tab­u­late the Juror’s votes. A reminder, the five Nom­i­nees in each of our three cat­e­gories will be announced dur­ing the live record­ing of “The Fun­ny Music Pod­cast” on Demen­tia Radio on Jan­u­ary 31st, 2013.

~ Luke Ski, 1/15/2013

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2013 Nominations Open

Hap­py New Year! Let’s not waste any time and get right to sub­mit­ting your sug­ges­tions for poten­tial nom­i­nees for the 2013 Logan Awards, cel­e­brat­ing the most out­stand­ing com­e­dy music of 2012! Our cat­e­gories are once again Out­stand­ing Par­o­dy Song, Out­stand­ing Orig­i­nal Com­e­dy Song, and Out­stand­ing Com­e­dy Music Video.

The Nom­i­nee Sug­ges­tion peri­od will be from Jan­u­ary 1st through Jan­u­ary 14th, 2013. After that, our jurors will pick their favorites from Jan­u­ary 15th through 28th. The five Nom­i­nees in each of our three cat­e­gories will be announced dur­ing the live record­ing of “The Fun­ny Music Pod­cast” on Demen­tia Radio on Jan­u­ary 31st, 2013. The 3rd Annu­al Logan
Awards Cer­e­mo­ny will be held at MarsCon in Bloom­ing­ton, MN on Sat­ur­day March 2nd at 4:00 pm as a part of the MarsCon Demen­tia Track. Go to MarsConDementia.com for info on the com­e­dy music track, and go to MarsCon.com for info on reg­is­ter­ing to attend the convention.

So go to the Nom­i­na­tion Form and start sub­mit­ting your favorite com­e­dy songs of 2012, and please spread the word to your com­e­dy music lov­ing friends online about it!

Viva demen­tia,

~ the great Luke Ski,
Chair of the 2013 Logan Whitehurst
Memo­r­i­al Awards For Excel­lence In Com­e­dy Music

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