House Of Mayors

	House Of Mayors 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

#	Title	Length	Lyrics	Guitar Tab
1	Preamble: Fernando Wood	0:57		N/A
2	Processional	1:31		N/A
3	DeWitt Clinton	2:03
4	Processional	0:54		N/A
5	John Purroy Mitchel	0:54		N/A
6	Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?	2:28
7	Processional	0:40
8	Fiorello LaGuardia	1:08		N/A
9	David Dinkins	1:08		N/A
10	House Of Mayors	4:03

Trivia

Hall Of Mayors misprinted cover

• 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.