I Like Mountain Music

I Like Mountain Music is a 1933 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising.
== Plot ==
In a drugstore, after hours, characters from magazines in a magazine rack come to life. Cowboys in a Western magazine sing and play "I Like Mountain Music" while the characters from all the other magazines join in the festivities. Crooks from a crime magazine attempt to rob the till, but are thwarted by Sherlock Holmes, King Kong, and other magazine characters.
== Availability ==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-5-F.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 5, Side 1, Black and White Classics (USA 1995 Turner print)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 3 (USA 1995 Turner print)
Lt public enemies.jpg|(2010) DVD Public Enemies: The Golden Age of Gangster Films (USA 1995 Turner print)
Ladies-They-Talk-About-BR-cover.jpeg|(2021) Blu-ray Ladies They Talk About (HD; restored)
LittleWomenBluRay.jpg|(2023) Blu-ray Little Women (HD; restored)
=== Streaming ===
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2020) (restored, removed)
== Censorship ==
* When this cartoon aired as part of Cartoon Network's compilation show Late Night Black & White, the short scene of Zulu natives flapping their oversized lips in tune with the music was cut. The cut also appeared when Cartoon Network aired a redrawn colorized version (the Turner Entertainment redrawn version) of the short as part of the anthology series, ToonHeads.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-i-j.aspx It should be noted that scenes of a stereotypical black boy and a stereotypical Chinese man were not edited, nor was the scene of a cowboy falling through the glass of a perfume display, getting sprayed, and acting stereotypically homosexual (cf. the homosexual chicken edit that Cartoon Network did on "Freddy the Freshman"). 
* The Radio & Television Packagers' redrawn version "Magazine Rack" had the scene uncut, though their version edited the performance of "Sweet Adeline" using recycled footage of the hula girl and the Pacific Islander native guitar players from "Pagan Moon" and changed the magazine dates to 1970.
== Notes ==
* Two redrawn colorized versions were made. The first one was produced in 1973 by Radio & Television Packagers, renaming the cartoon "Magazine Rack". The second one was produced in 1987 by Turner Entertainment.
* Unlike the other Merrie Melodies cartoons at the time with their unique character for the "That's all Folks!" sequence, the homeless boy from "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" is reused instead.
* The scene with the Polynesian native girl is reused animation from "Pagan Moon", released the previous year.
== Gallery ==
MountainMusicRESTORED.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
I-Like-Mountain-Music1-680.jpg|Lobby card
I-Like-Mountain-Music2-680.jpg|Lobby card
== References ==
Category:1933
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons produced by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons produced by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons animated by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons animated by Larry Martin
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Frank Marsales
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons