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Pronunciation of "Robin Hood"

I happened to catch an old Warner Bros. cartoon, from the 'Forties I'm guessing, starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, where Daffy Duck was Robin Hood and Porky was Friar Tuck. As both characters, Mel Blanc pronounced "Robin Hood" with stress on "Hood". To me, however, the normal pronunciation of "Robin Hood" is "ROBINhood", receiving a stress pattern like single-word -hood terms (e.g. "brotherhood"). IOW, it's like the legendary Fort Leonard Wood that AUErs with military experience have said so much about.
"Robin HOOD" sounds like a BrE pronunciation it reminds me of how BrE speakers pronounce "Amsterdam" as "AmsterDAM", while in AmE it's "AMsterdam". But Mel Blanc was American, of course, as were Daffy and Porky. So was "Robin Hood" a few generations ago standardly pronounced "Robin HOOD" in AmE? Are there AmE speakers even today who say "Robin HOOD" rather than "ROBinhood"?
  
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