A Custom Bar Mitzvah Song for Their Big Day

The candle lighting is the part of the night that needs a soundtrack, and most families end up using whatever the DJ already has queued. Thirteen candles, a name attached to each one, and a room of 120 people watching a kid walk his grandmother to the front.

A song written for that segment can name the people it is actually about. The grandfather who taught him to shuffle cards. The parsha he practiced at the kitchen table every Sunday for a year, until his mother knew the trope by heart. The four friends at table 4 who have been together since kindergarten and who will lose it completely when their own names show up in a chorus.

Two worries usually come up. The first is that it will sound like a slideshow, sentimental piano under a photo montage. It does not have to. Tell us what you want it to sound like, hip hop, pop, big horns, room energy, and it gets built to hold a floor. The second worry is that you are not a writer. You are not being asked to be one. You send the details, the names, the inside jokes, the phrase he says constantly, and we write the song around them.

What you get is one original studio quality song, written from what you tell us, $19.99, in your email within 24 hours. Nothing recycled, no template with a name dropped into it.

Send us the candle list, the parsha, and three things about him nobody outside the family would know. If the date is close, order tonight and you will have a file to hand the DJ tomorrow.