Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Lilian Harvey (19 January 1906[citation needed] – 27 July 1968) was a British-born actress and singer, long-based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film Der Kongress tanzt.
Helene Lilian Muriel Pape was born in 1906 in Hornsey, North London. Her mother, Ethel Marion Laughton, was English and her father, Walter Bruno Pape, was a German businessman. At the beginning of World War I the family found itself in Magdeburg, and as they were unwilling and unable to return to England, Harvey was sent to live with an aunt at Solothurn in Switzerland. After the war, the Papes lived in Berlin, where Lilian took her high-school diploma (Abitur) in 1923. She began her career by attending the dance and voice school of the Berlin State Opera and assumed her grandmother's maiden name (Harvey) as her professional surname.
After an engagement as a revue dancer in Vienna in 1924, Harvey received her first movie role as the young Jewish girl "Ruth" in the film Der Fluch directed by Robert Land. Subsequently, she starred in many silent films. In 1925, she was cast in her first leading role in the film Leidenschaft by Richard Eichberg, side by side with Otto Gebühr.
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, the popular leading man in German silent motion-pictures.
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the son of a factory owner in Kattowitz (present-day Katowice) in the Prussian province of Silesia. After the bankruptcy of his father in 1912, the family moved to Berlin, where Fritsch sen. worked as an employee of the Siemens-Schuckert company. Young Willy originally planned an apprenticeship as a mechanic, but soon resorted to the occupation as an extra at the Großes Schauspielhaus theatre.
From 1919 he attended Max Reinhardt's drama school at the Deutsches Theater, where he debuted with small roles, and made his feature debut in films as a supporting player in 1921's Miß Venus. Fritsch remained a popular juvenile figure in films and the theater, but his real success came after being paired with Lilian Harvey in 1928, when they appeared regularly together in UFA movies like Der Kongreß tanzt (Congress Dances) by Erik Charell, released every year thereafter until Harvey's emigration in 1939.
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor.
Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers.
After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Rühmann did not speak openly about German politics, but instead kept himself as neutral as possible. In 1938, he divorced his Jewish wife, who married a Swedish actor, and before World War II broke out, traveled to Stockholm and as a result, survived the Holocaust. The divorce caused Rühmann to be accused of wanting to secure his career; however, the marriage had probably already fallen apart. His second wife, whom he married shortly after, had a Jewish grandfather, a fact that caused Rühmann problems with the Nazi cultural authorities. Rühmann retained his reputation as an unpolitical star during the entire Nazi era.
Dave Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.
Dave Koz was born on March 27, 1963 in Encino, California. Koz attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California performing on saxophone as a member of the school jazz band. He later graduated from UCLA with a degree in mass communications in 1986, and only weeks after his graduation, decided to make a go of becoming a professional musician. Within weeks of that decision, he was recruited as a member of Bobby Caldwell's tour. For the rest of the 1980s, Koz served as a session musician in several bands, toured with Jeff Lorber. Koz was a member of Richard Marx's band and toured with Marx throughout the late 1980s. He also played in the house band of CBS' short-lived The Pat Sajak Show, with Tom Scott as bandleader.
In 1990, Koz decided to pursue a solo career, and began recording for Capitol Records. His albums there include Lucky Man, The Dance, and Saxophonic. Saxophonic was nominated for both a Grammy Award and an NAACP Image Award.
Give me mercy and I need it now,
I'm a bleed a little poison out,
I'm a cry a little river down
and then I'm setting this whole thing on fire,
and I'm burning up the night she died
and I'm putting every last picture aside
I'm gonna say what I need to say,
in my very last letter to you,
cuz you always made it clear,
said that you'd never be my pain.
So here's to you when you cried baby blues
And just paused a cool to refrain
And you said she was satisfied
and this body's just waiting to die
and I could listen sometimes
but you said its alright
its just a whole lot harder alone.
But I wish you knew her now,
she's a better side of me now,
and I'm doing the best I can,
its what you wanted,
and I sing like you were there
and I knew it was just how you would smile
Mary you looked just like
it was 1930 that night.
But hear the nights they will eat you alive,
but I won't give in tonight,
You said its not worth my time
and not to record them,
And not to settle just a piece of mind
but I can wait it out all night,
And we keep on breathing [sigh]
But Mary I found a sound
and this heart keeps pouring it out
and the glory has come,
but its probably gonna fade like the tattoo
that hides this shame and the reasons always fade
and the pain gets out some day
and I'm saying my goodbyes deeply wise
cuz I don't know how to say
Stay still in the pain
But I wish you knew her now,
she's a better side of me now,
and I'm doing the best I can,
its what you wanted,
and I sing like you were there
and I knew it was just how you smile
Mary you looked just like
it was 1930 that night
If I recall the last thing you said to me,
before we broke up, before it took you from me,
and you said I love you more than the stars in the sky
but your aliveness just gets me tonight
these are so messed up im not even gonna try to help you fix them..haha...
Give me mercy and a minute now
I'm a bleed a little poison out
I'm a cry a little river down
And then I'm setting this whole thing on fire
And I'm burning up the night she died
And I'm putting every last picture aside
I'm gonna say what I need to say
In my very last letter to you
Cause you always made it clear
Said that you'd never be my pain
So here's to you and your bright baby blues
And just a pause to cool the refrain
And you said you were satisfied
And now this body's just waiting to die
And that you missed him sometimes but you said it's alright
It's just a whole lot harder alone
But I wish you knew her now
She's a better side of me now
And I'm doing the best I can
It's what you wanted
And I see you like you were there
And I know just how you'd smile
Mary, you looked just like it was 1930 that night
But here the nights they will eat you alive
But I won't give in tonight
You said it's not worth my time
And not to regard them
And not to settle just a piece of mind
But I can wait it out all night
If you'll just keep breathing
But Mary I found a sound
And this heart keeps pouring it out
And the glory hasn't come and it's probably gonna fade
Like the tattoo that hides this shame
And the reasons always fade
And the pain gets out some day
And I'm saying my goodbyes to your deep blue eyes
Cause I don't know how to say stay still in the pain
But I wish you knew her now
She's a better side of me now
And I'm doing the best I can
It's what you wanted
And I see you like you were there
And I know just how you'd smile
Mary, you looked just like it was 1930 that night
If I recall the last thing you said to me
Before it broke up, before it took you from me
And you said "I love you more than the stars in the sky