One More, Somewhat Rather Niggling, Report From Doctor Rothman, Tune Detective.

This one involves the song "Bloody Mary", from "South Pacific".
It involves the lyric that goes:
"Her skin is tender as DiMaggio's glove"
The problem is that, in every cast album I have found, and every production that I
have seen, the accent is consistently on the wrong "SYLABBLE".
It's always performed as "Her skin is tender a-a-s Dimaggio's glove".
Always two syllables on a-a-s.
And running "Dimaggio's" as closely as possible.
Isn't it a lot more natural to make "as" one syllable, and stretch
"Di-Maggio's" this way.
It scans just as well, and any baseball fan of that era would pronounce
Joltin' Joe's name that way.
The way it's done now is a pure unnecessary contrivance.
Obviously, Oscar Hammerstein was no baseball fan.
I'm sure Richard Rodgers was no help, and no baseball fan either.
"What ever you say, Oscar."
I said it was niggling, but it still bugs the hell out of me.

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