Word: shanklin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mawkishly does the cornball song, with its vaguely Kurt Weillish tune, exploit the pathos of divided Berlin that the Voice of America has refused to play it, and West German record firms are "apprehensive" about releasing it. Hollywood Songwriter Wayne Shanklin maintains that the record was inspired by a news picture of Bobby Kennedy looking at the barrier. ''The Wall offends the dignity of the human being," he straightfaces. "I want to shape the world a little. I can't fight with a gun, so I have to use the only weapons at my command...