About Custom Mother's Day Songs
A division of Song Legacy

Custom Mother's Day Songs is a division of Song Legacy, which creates unique songs for birthdays, anniversaries and many other occasions. Custom Mother's Day Songs specializes in musical tributes to mothers, in addition to grandmothers, step-mothers and other special people you may wish to honor on Mother's Day.

The Custom Mother's Day staff has had the pleasure of working with numerous headliners and orchestras around the world. Kathleen Ebright Tarp, lyricist and vocalist, spent years on the road with the Serendipity Singers and various other show groups.

Members of the Custom Mother's Day staff include lyricists and recording artists with extensive stage and recording experience. The finest California Central Coast recording studios provide the latest, most innovative digital computer technology available. Each CD is recorded, engineered and mixed with the finest equipment available, employing excellent sound technicians such as Richard Bryant, formerly with the Doobie Brothers. Custom Mother's Day Songs has the honor of working with some of the best recording engineers in California who have worked with Chaka Kahn, Pablo Cruise, jazz legend Bruce Forman, and many others.

Kathleen Tarp - Principal Vocalist/Lyricist/Founder

Kathleen Ebright Tarp has a long musical history that includes starring at San Francisco's Circle Star Theatre, performing with many headliners around the world such as Lou Rawls, Bob Hope, the Kingston Trio, and Victor Borge. She has recorded numerous albums and appeared in countless television specials filmed throughout the United States and Canada with the Serendipity Singers. She traveled extensively for over ten years on the road with the Serendipity Singers and her own group performing throughout the U.S., Canada, and the Far East. Kathleen developed Song Legacy.com in 1999, combining her talents of rich vocals, graphic arts design skills, and business savvy to produce custom songs which have enriched customer's lives around the world. She owns website SongLegacy.com and the associated sites, CustomMothersDaySongs.com, CustomWeddingSongs.com, CustomAnniversarySongs.com, and CustomBirthdaySongs.com.

The most thrilling accomplishment of Kathleen's life has been to draw together the talents of extraordinary musicians, vocalists, lyricists, composers, and computer technicians available to bring SongLegacy.com to a rousing crescendo!

Andrea Carter - Composer/Lyricist/Vocalist

Andrea Carter has been composing since the age of 5! Playing guitar, writing lyrics, and singing was always a part of her life. But 15 years ago, it became a major part, performing with her own band "Andrea's Fault" (which for those not living in California, the name is from the famous earthquake fault line: The San Andreas Fault).

She now is a full-time prolific singer/songwriter and able to capture your story down to the last detail with warmth, poignancy and humor.

Her sultry voice, reminiscent of 1940's Torch Songstresses, adds to the romance of her music. Her lilting ability to switch from one octave to the next is evocative of Sarah McLaughlin.

Reviews from her fans are sensational! Here are just a few:

From Mike in Indiana: Wow! What a surprise...A little Diana Krall and Norah Jones mixture, with original lyrics and a great sounding group all together! From Robert in California: What greatly impresses me is the "jazz classic" qualities of Andrea Carter's original melodies and poetic lyrics; this plus the fine performances by vocalist and band. From Elissa in Southern California: I love Andrea's lyrics! She wrote about my fiancé and me and absolutely nailed it! He laughed…and teared up! It was a great success! Now he is in love with Andrea ;-)

You can learn more about Andrea at her website, www.andreajazz.com, and you can listen to and purchase her latest CD: LOVE SLIPPED OUT THE DOOR at andreajazz.com

Richard Bryant - Vocalist

The Doobie Brothers, Little River Band, Chaka Kahn, and Pablo Cruise are just a few of the bands Richard has toured with throughout the years. Possessing one of the most remarkable voices on the planet, his distinct and soulful voice has graced countless albums in rock, funk, R&B, and smooth jazz genres.

Richard is a lead vocalist for "The White Album Ensemble," a group of extraordinary musicians who have played with the Doobie Brothers, Larry Hosford Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lacy J Dalton, Average White Band, Sons of Champlin, and It's A Beautiful Day, and have sold out over 15 concerts in theatres - performing the Beatles' "White Album" music, which was never performed live by the Beatles. The 8 extraordinary musicians, who have spent months and months rehearsing, now perform The White Album, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour albums, note for note, with 8 to 15 piece ensembles, as well as symphony accompaniment. They've raised over $20,000 for music in the schools in Santa Cruz, and Guitars, not Guns, a non-profit, non-violent organization.

Roger Eddy - Composer/Jazz Saxophonist

Roger Eddy is known for his "sax appeal, saxfistication, and saxvoirfaire"! The composer, flautist, and jazz saxophone player has performed with Huey Lewis, Glenn Frey of the Eagles, Vince Gill, Lou Rawls, The Gatlin Brothers Band, Frankie Valli, and many more. His band has opened for the Pointer Sisters, Spyro-Gyra, Tom Scott, Toto, and Larry Carlton, to name just a few. He has toured with the Robben Ford Blues Band and headlined with the Carla Bley Big Band at the 2005 Monterey Jazz Festival. His smooth jazz compositions have received national airplay and he is the epitome of the quintessential musician's musician who can play anything from rock to jazz to classical.

MaryLee Sunseri - Composer/Lyricist/Vocalist

Singer-songwriter MaryLee Sunseri is the winner of 4 Parents' Choice Awards and 2 American Library Association Notable Children's Recordings. Her credits include performing the title song to Walt Disney's "Apple Dumpling Gang," Mattel Toys' "See 'N Say," touring America as a member of "Randy Sparks & The Back Porch Majority" and many concert appearances with the legendary Burl Ives. She received her certificate of study in Musical Theatre from London Drama School with distinction in singing.

Evelyn Starr - Web Designer/Webmaster/Graphic Artist

Our Web Designer and Webmaster, Evelyn Starr, is an essential member of the Song Legacy team. For around ten years she has designed and maintained the Song Legacy websites (SongLegacy.com, CustomMothersDaySongs.com, CustomWeddingSongs.com, CustomAnniversarySongs.com, and CustomBirthdaySongs.com), always striving to give the visitor an entertaining and satisfying experience viewing and listening to the graphic and audio samples of our products. She is also a member of the Graphics Design team that creates our CD covers, CD labels and lyric sheets.