The Logan Whitehurst Memorial Award for Excellence in Comedy Music

The ‪‎FuMP‬ has launched a new Kickstarter to help pay for the Logan Awards statuettes

The 2014 Logan Awards are just over 2 months away. Soon the Jurors will have all sub­mit­ted their picks for the fun­ni­est songs of 2013, and once our chair “Blast­ed Bill” Putt has tab­u­lat­ed the win­ners, it will be time for him to order the engraved ‘Robot Cat” stat­uettes, and those things cost boku-bucks. That’s why we’ve launched this Kick­starter, to pay for this year’s Logan Awards stat­ues, and if we hit that goal, even more to save up a ‘bat­tle chest’ of funds to pay for future year’s statues.

Some of the prizes for donat­ing include: an album of live music record­ed at Luke Ski’s pri­vate Kick­starter par­ty event “LukeS­ki­Con 2013”, a video pre­sen­ta­tion of high­lights of live com­e­dy music per­for­mances per­formed at the first 3 “Logan Awards” cer­e­monies, a Logan Awards t‑shirt, an appear­ance on the FuMP­cast, cus­tom made com­e­dy songs and house con­certs by Luke Ski, Devo Spice, Insane Ian, TV’s Kyle, Worm Quar­tet, Pow­er Sal­ad, Car­rie Dahl­by, Phil John­son, Tony Gold­mark (song only), Eric Cole­man and Steve Good­ie (house con­cert only).

This Kick­starter ends on May 14th, so please donate today, and please share this with all your friends online who love com­e­dy music!

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4th Annual Logan Awards to be held at FuMPFeST 2014 in Chicago, with host Dr. Demento

The 4th Annu­al Logan White­hurst Memo­r­i­al Awards for Excel­lence in Com­e­dy Music will be held at FuMPFeST 2014 at the West­in Chica­go North Shore in Wheel­ing, IL, the week­end of June 20th through 22nd, 2014. Our MC for the con­cert & cer­e­mo­ny will be leg­endary com­e­dy music DJ, the one and only Dr. Demen­to, the Guest of Hon­or of FuMPFeST 2014, who has also served as a per­ma­nent juror of the Logan Awards since it start­ed in 2011.

FuMPFeST 2014 is the first con­ven­tion being put on by the Fun­ny Music Project web­site, also known as ‘The FuMP’ dot com, and is chaired by Tom Rock­well, who is the web­mas­ter of the FuMP, as well a com­e­dy music per­former who under the stage name ‘Devo Spice’ has been mak­ing com­e­dy hip-hop albums for over 20 years, and is a sta­ple act cur­rent­ly heard on “The Dr. Demen­to Show”. Our mas­ter of cer­e­monies for the week­end will be Insane Ian, anoth­er reg­u­lar FuMP / Demen­to artist.

At FuMPFeST 2014, Dr. Demen­to also be giv­ing pre­sen­ta­tions, play­ing fun­ny music, sign­ing auto­graphs, and join­ing in all the fun that we have planned. We’ll also have live com­e­dy music con­certs being per­formed all week­end by such artists as Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, Worm Quar­tet, Pow­er Sal­ad, Car­rie Dahl­by, Insane Ian, Tony Gold­mark, Pos­si­ble Oscar, Tom Smith, Ray­mond & Scum, Sea­mon­key, Gar­den Fresh, Dan Hart, and more! For infor­ma­tion on reg­is­tra­tion and book­ing a room in our hotel block, vis­it the FuMPFeST web­site at http://fumpfest.com .

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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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