House Of Mayors
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Hello recording by John Linnell | |||||
| First released | August 1996 Release details / collectors: Show | Hide |
Tracks | 10 | |||
| Label | Hello <hel-68> | Length | 15:46 | |||
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Linnell posing for the cover photograph taken on a Connectix Quickcam, featuring a costume assembled by Robin Goldwasser
House of Mayors is the second solo EP release by John Linnell through the Hello Recording Club. Like its predecessor, State Songs, it is a concept EP.
Linnell described it in a 1996 They Might Be Giants Info Club newsletter when asked what he'd be doing while John Flansburgh toured with Mono Puff:
I'm working this summer on a project to be released as a Hello CD-of-the-Month called House of Mayors. It's a mostly instrumental tour through an imaginary exhibit of New York mayors, sort of like the Hall of Presidents at Disneyland.
Track listing[edit]
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| 1 | Preamble: Fernando Wood | 0:57
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| 2 | Processional | 1:31
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| 3 | DeWitt Clinton | 2:03
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| 4 | Processional | 0:54
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| 5 | John Purroy Mitchel | 0:54
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| 6 | Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? | 2:28
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| 7 | Processional | 0:40
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| 8 | Fiorello LaGuardia | 1:08
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| 9 | David Dinkins | 1:08
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| 10 | House Of Mayors | 4:03
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Trivia[edit]
- Linnell discussing the cover photo on Instagram in 2022:
It was taken with a mid-90's Connectix Quickcam, a primitive webcam that we used for all sorts of lo-tech projects back in the day. Barbara Glauber designed the cover [...] and she needed some artwork. Robin Goldwasser assembled the elements of this old-timey mayor costume for me and I shot it while I was somewhere out on tour and sent the pic to Barbara via creaky old dial-up email.
- Some issues of this recording feature a misprint, titling it Hall of Mayors. It is unknown exactly how many copies were incorrectly printed this way.
