Name: Ghosts of Broadway
Duration: P00H03M50S
Description: The closing number from Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic, about former Follies girl, Kathryn Lambert, who, along with Olive Thomas and other showgirls, promised to meet in 20 years, but they all died tragic deaths, leaving Kathryn to dine alone.

Ghosts of Broadway

from To The Depth of Jazz by Billy Butler

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The closing number from Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic, about former Follies girl, Kathryn Lambert, who, along with Olive Thomas and other showgirls, promised to meet in 20 years, but they all died tragic deaths, leaving Kathryn to dine alone.

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Dinner for one
Is not much fun
Can’t share a laugh
Or clever conversation
A bottle of champagne
Just doesn’t taste the same
Without you

The grand drape falls
On the final curtain call
The show is over
For the belles of the ball
The houselights are trim
Footlights have dimmed
At the end of the play
A single light center stage
Shines for the ghosts of Broadway

We’ll meet again
In heaven my friend
Dance all night long
The song will never end
Cole Porter will play
Night and Day forever
We will dine
The finest food and wine
Our cups runneth over
With a buzz divine
When it’s time to play
We’ll take our place center stage
We’ll bring down the house
We’ll be all the rage
And we’ll shine with the ghosts of Broadway

We’ll bring down the house
We'll be all the rage
And we’ll shine with the ghosts of Broadway

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from To The Depth of Jazz, released September 8, 2015
by Billy Butler

Kenny Butler on violin

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