The Quiz: The lyrics of which song include a disagreement over the correct way to pronounce the word tomato?
“I Got Rhythm”
“Rhapsody In Blue”
“Strike Up the Band”
“Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”
“Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of a celebrated dance scene on roller skates. Astaire and Rogers sing alternate verses of this quickstep before embarking on a tap dance routine in a Central Park skating rink. The song is famous for its lyrics, “You like potato and I like potahto…You like tomato and I like tomahto” along with other verses comparing their different regional dialects.
The correct answer to this quiz is “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”.