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Peter Bellamy Discography

[This file originates from the Wake the Vaulted Echoes CD-ROM section with very few corrections.
See credits at the end for compilers.]

Year:1966
Title: The Young Tradition
Artists: The Young Tradition
Released in 1966 as Transatlantic 12-inch LP TRA 142
Produced by: Nathan Joseph, and recorded by Nathan Joseph and Bill Leader
This was Young Tradition’s first album. - No earlier YT recordings are known.
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood, Heather Wood.
Tracks were: Byker Hill * # + (Collected by John Hasted), The Bold Fisherman, Betsy the Servingmaid, Henry the Poacher (from Harry Cox, Sutton, Norfolk), The Lyke Wake Dirge * # + (words adapted from Aubrey’s version of 1686, tune via Hans Fried from Peggy Richards of Scotland), The Banks of Claudy * # + (from the Copper Family), The Innocent Hare * # + (from the Copper Family), Dives & Lazarus, Derry Down Fair * (words collected by Hammond from Robert Barrett of Puddletown, Dorset, tune from elsewhere), The Truth Sent From Above * (collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Mr. W. Jenkins of King’s Pyon, Herefordshire), Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth * # (collected in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire).

* Tracks later re-released in the US as ‘The Young Tradition’, Vanguard VSD-79246, 1967
# Track released in the UK on The Young Tradition Sampler, Transatlantic TRA SAM 13, 1969
+ Track released in the UK on The Young Tradition, Demon Records TRANDEM 5, 1989

Year:1967
Title: So Cheerfully Round
Artists: Young Tradition
Released by: Transatlantic in 1967, as 12-inch LP TRA 155
Recorded at: Livingston Studios, Barnet, London, 1967.
Recording supervision by: Bill Leader, engineer: Nic Kinsey
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood, Heather Wood.
Tracks were: Daddy Fox # +, The Season Round (from the Copper Family), The Bold Dragoon, Watercress-O * (by Roger Watson, based on a memory from Roger’s grandmother’s childhood), The Old Miser * (learned by Peter from Harry Cox at the Windmill in Sutton, Norfolk), The Foxhunt * # (collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Mr. Stephen Pole of Norfolk), Knight William & the Shepherd’s Daughter * (Child Ballad No 110), The Single Man’s Warning * (collected by Cecil Sharp from Tom Sprachlan of Hambridge, Somerset), The Pretty Ploughboy, The Hungry Child * (by Judith Piepe), The Whitsuntide Carol * # +(collected from Thomas Coningsby of Whaddon, Cambridgeshire).

* Tracks later re-released in the US as ‘The Young Tradition’, Vanguard VSD-79246, 1967
# Track released in the UK on The Young Tradition Sampler, Transatlantic TRA SAM 13, 1969
+ Track released in the UK on The Young Tradition, Demon Records TRANDEM 5, 1989

Year: 1967
Title: Chicken on a Raft
Artist: Young Tradition
Released by: Transatlantic in 1967 as 7-inch EP TRA 164 (**)
Produced by: Bill Leader
Recorded at: Leadersound
Also featuring: choruses include - Dave Calderhead, Hans Fried, Ken Hamer, Roger and Frances Jones-Ford, Arthur Knevett, Rod and Danny Stradling.
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Heather Wood, Royston Wood
An EP of Sea shanties, brought out since a full LP’s material was not yet ready: Heather Wood recalls ‘I wanted to call it "Just Add Water," but Peter and Royston wouldn’t let me’.
Tracks were: Chicken on a Raft # + (by Cyril Tawney), Randy Dandy-O # +, Fire Maringo # (tune by Royston), Hanging Johnny #, Bring ’em Down #, Haul on the Bowline #.

# Tracks released in the UK as The Young Tradition Sampler, Transatlantic TRA SAM 13, 1969
+ Tracks released in the UK as The Young Tradition, Demon Records TRANDEM 5, 1989
** The complete album Galleries, the EP Chicken on a Raft, and selections marked ~ from No Relation (below) released in the UK on one CD by Castle, ESM CD 461, 1997

Availability: Castle CD Re-issue generally available

Year: 1967
Title: In My Life
Artist: Judy Collins
Released by: Elektra in 1967 as 12-inch LP EKS 7320
Produced by: Mark Abramson
Also featuring: Peter Bellamy and YT, Diz Disley, Julie Felix as ‘The Rabble’ on the Marat Sade track (Heather recalls that studio staff were not sufficiently ‘rabble-like’, so folkies were called for!)
Re-released as Elektra EKS 74027
Tracks were: Peter Bellamy, other members of Young Tradition and Anthea Bellamy sang backing vocals on ‘Marat Sade’, which was arranged and conducted by Joshua Rifkin
Availability: Available on import, and the ‘Marat Sade’ track has appeared on compilations of her work, including ‘The First Fifteen Years’, where the YT chorus is mixed more distinctly!

Year: 1967
Title: The Sweet Primeroses
Artist: Shirley Collins
Released by: Topic in 1967 as 12-inch LP 12T170
Produced by: Austin John Marshall
Recorded by: Bill Leader
Personnel were: Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins
Also featuring: chorus (uncredited) by Peter Bellamy, Heather Wood, Royston Wood, on tracks: Babes in the Wood, Rigs of the Time
Re-released as Topic CD TSCD 476 in 1995, with extra tracks from Topic EP Heroes in Love (TOP 95) and the unlisted ‘Polly Vaughan’ from the 1967 vinyl release. The CD re-issue now credits the Young Tradition by name for their contribution.
Availability: The Topic CD is currently available

Year: 1968
Title: Mainly Norfolk
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Transatlantic in 1968 as 12-inch LP XTRA 1060
Produced and recorded by: Bill Leader, London 1968
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy
Tracks were: The German Musicianer, Georgie, Lovely Joan, The 14th of February, The Shooting of his Dear, The Saucy Sailor, Yarmouth Town, Just as the Tide was A-Flowing, Fakenham Fair, The Lofty Tall Ship, Butter & Cheese & All, The Turtle Dove.

Year: 1968.
Title: Galleries
Artist:Young Tradition
Released by: Transatlantic in 1968 as 12-inch LP TRA 172
Produced by: Nic Kinsey
Recorded at: Livingston Studios, Barnet, London, 1968
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood, Heather Wood.
Also featuring: Dolly Collins, David Munrow, Roddy and Adam Skeaping, Christopher Hogwood, Dave Swarbrick, Sandy Denny.
Instrumental arrangements by Dolly Collins, who also plays the portative organ. Also featuring The Early Music Consort (David Munrow, Chris Hogwood, Adam Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping) on What if a Day and The Agincourt Carol.
Tracks were: Intro: Ductia, The Barley Straw (from Harry Cox of Norfolk), What if a Day (by Thomas Campion, arranged by Dolly Collins), The Loyal Lover + (from Lucy Broadwood’s collection of West Country songs), Stones in my Passway (by Robert Johnson), Idumea + (by Charles Wesley and Ananias Davisson), The Husbandman & the Servingman (from the Cantwell Family of Oxfordshire), The Rolling of the Stones, The Bitter Withy + (learned from Audrey Coppard), The Banks of the Nile + (a composite version), Wondrous Love + (by Rev. Robert Seagrave), Medieval Mystery Tour (in part by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn), Upon the Bough + (words APH, tune Heather), Ratcliff Highway + (a composite version), The Brisk Young Widow + (learned at school), Pembroke Unique Ensemble: Soldiers Three + (played by Dave Swarbrick,with Sandy Denny on piano), John Barleycorn + (from the Cecil Sharp collection), The Agincourt Carol +.

+ Track released in the UK on ‘The Young Tradition’, Demon Records TRANDEM 5, 1989.
Re-released complete as ‘Galleries Revisited’ on Transatlantic TRA SAM 30 in 1973, and as ‘Galleries’ on Vanguard VSD 79295, in 1968 (**), and by Logo as ‘Galleries Revisited’ in 1979.
Availability:(**) The complete album ‘Galleries’, the EP ‘Chicken on a Raft’, and selections marked ~ from ‘No Relation’ (below) released in the UK on one CD by Castle, ESM CD 461, 1997

Year: 1968
Title: I Have Seen the Highlands / I’ll Be Coming Home to Glasgow
Artist: Matt McGinn
Released by: Transatlantic in 1968 as single TRA SP 18
Produced by: Bill Leader
Personnel were: Matt McGinn and Young Tradition
Re-released on: Various McGinn compilations
Tracks: ‘I Have Seen the Highland’ features Peter Bellamy

Year: 1968/9
Title: Fair England’s Shore
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Transatlantic in 1969 as 12-inch LP XTRA 1075
Produced by: Bill Leader, London
Personnel were: Peter solo
Tracks were: Young Roger Esq., Fanny Blair, Long Pegging Awl, The Good Luck Ship, The Green Bed, All Around My Hat, The Dockyard Gate, The Prentice Boy, The Dogger Bank, The Dark-Eyed Sailor, You Gentlemen of England, Jolly Roving Tar.
Re-released as Part of Peter Bellamy’s 1968 Private Issue Cassette.

Year: Recorded 1969
Title: The Holly Bears the Crown
Artists: Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins
Availability: Never released on vinyl, since the required 5-colour sleeve was considered too expensive, and John Gilbert left Decca: finally released on CD 1995 by Fledg’ling/Hokey Pokey Records as CD FLED 3006.
Recorded at: Decca Studios, London in 1969,
Produced by: John Gilbert, photography by Brian Shuel.
Also featuring: Adam and Roddy Skeaping, and with narration by Gary Watson.
Tracks were: See 1995 entry for Fledg’ling CD release for track details. One Track (Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day) was released on the Argo ‘World of Folk’ LP SPA-A 132 (1971), and one track (I Sing of a Mayden) was previously released before the CD.

Year:1969
Title: The Young Tradition Sampler
Artist: Young Tradition
Released by: Transatlantic in 1969 as 12-inch LP TRASAM 13.
A ‘Sampler’ of tracks from YT’s three previous vinyl albums and one EP: ‘Young Tradition’ (TRA 142), ‘So Cheerfully Round’ (TRA 155), ‘Galleries’ (TRA 172), and ‘Chicken on a Raft’ (TRA EP 164).
Tracks (with TRA LP source) were: Side One: Chicken on a Raft (164), The Innocent Hare(142), The Whitsuntide Carol (155), Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth (142), The Banks of the Claudy (142), Randy-Dandy-O (164). Side Two: Byker Hill (142), Daddy Fox (155), The Fox Hunt (155), The Lyke Wake Dirge (142), Shanties - Fire Marengo/Hanging Johnny/Haul on the Bowlin’ (164).
Availability: Also re-released in 1974 on LP, cassette and cartridge, deleted in 1979.

Year: 1970
Title: The Folk Trailer
Artist: Various artists compilation
Released by: Leader/Trailer in 1970 as 12-inch LP TRAILER LER 2019
Tracks were: Side Two- 6: Young Tradition ‘Bright Morning Star’.
NB: This is the sole Young Tradition track as yet un-released on CD.
Produced by: Bill Leader and Jim Lloyd, Production Master by Nic Kinsey
Recorded by: Sean Davis at Cecil Sharp House, London
Personnel were: Various Leader/Trailer artists of the late 60s.

Year: 1970
Title: The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Topic in 1969 as 12-inch LP, 12T 200
Produced by: A.L.Lloyd
Recorded at: City of London Studios, 1969
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy; with Barry Dransfield - fiddle; and Chris Birch - harmony
Tracks were: The Spotted Cow, Two Pretty Boys, The Female Drummer, Here’s Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy, The Ghost Song, The Carnal and The Crane, The Penny Wager, The Barley and The Rye, The Turkish Lady, Warlike Seamen, The Blackberry Fold, Saint Stephen, The Rigs of London Town, The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate.

Year: 1970
Title: Oak, Ash and Thorn
Artist: Peter Bellamy.
Released by: Decca’s Argo Division in 1970 as 12-inch LP Argo ZFB11
Produced by: Frederick Woods, engineer: Adrian Martins
Recorded at: Decca Recording Studios - Argo Division
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy
Also featuring: Royston Wood, Heather Wood, Barry Dransfield, Robin Dransfield
Re-Released as Part of Private Issue Cassette of ‘Puck’s Songs’ by Peter Bellamy in 1974.
Tracks were: Frankie’s Trade, Poor Honest Men, Cold Iron, Sir Richard’s Song, The Looking Glass, Oak Ash and Thorn. Side Two: King Henry VII and the Shipwrights, The Brookland Road, A Three Part Song, The Ballad of Minepit Shaw, Our Fathers of Old, Philadelpia.
Availability: Deleted in 1978

Year: 1970
Title: Young Hunting
Artist: Tony Rose
Released by: Leader/Trailer in 1970 as 12-inch LP TRAILER LER 2013
Personnel were: Tony Rose
Produced by: Bill Leader
Also featuring: Robin & Barry Dransfield, plus unidentified chorus singers - probably members of YT.

Year: 1971
Title: The World of Folk
Artist: Various artists compilation
Released by: Decca’s Argo Division in 1971 as SPA-A 132
An Argo Recordings Compilation of tracks from 1968, 1970, 1971
Tracks were: Side 1 Track 2: Young Tradition with Dolly Collins ‘Tomorrow Shall Be my Dancing Day’. YT Track produced by John Gilbert at Decca Studios. This track appears on ‘The Holly Bears the Crown’ on Fledg’ling CD FLED 3006, released 1995, but recorded in 1969.

Year: 1972
Title: Won’t You Go My Way?
Artist: Peter Bellamy with Louis Killen
Released by: Decca’s Argo Division in 1972 as 12-inch LP Argo ZFB 37
Recorded by: Kevin Daly or Peter Self of Counterpoint Mobile Recording
Recorded: Live on stage before an invited audience at The Folk Studio in Norwich, with Louis Killen, 22 July 1971
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy and Louis Killen
Tracks were: Butter and Cheese and All, Lovely Willy, Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy, Testimonial (Bellamy), Black is The Colour (whistle solo), Won’t You Go My Way?, 100 Years Ago, The Alabama, Monday Morning (Cyril Tawney), Nameless Air (whistle solo), The Sweet Nightingale, Charming Molly, When Spring Comes In, Above The Hill (Bellamy), Spencer The Rover, Yarmouth Town.

Year: 1972
Title: Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Decca’s Argo Division in September 1972 as 12-inch LP Argo ZFB 81
Produced by: Kevin Daly
Recorded at: Decca Studios, London, June 1972 by Iain Churches
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy
Also featuring: Nic Jones, Dolly Collins, Dik Cadbury, Peter Hall, Anthea Bellamy, Dave Arthur, Fred Woods and Mike Edmonds
Re-released as Part of Private Issue Cassette of ‘Puck’s Songs’ by Peter Bellamy in 1974.
Tracks were: Puck’s Song, A Smuggler’s Song, The Run of The Downs, Eddi’s Service, The Queen’s Men, The Bee-boy’s Song, Harp Song of the Dane Women, Song of the Men’s Side, The Heavens Above Us (An Astrologer’s Song), Prophets at Home, Who Shall Judge The Lord? (A Carol), St Helena (A St. Helena Lullaby), The Way Through The Woods, The Bricklayer and The Shipwright (A Truthful Song), Song of the Red Warboat.

Year: 1972
Title: English Garland
Artists: Various artists compilation
Released by: Topic in 1972 as 12-inch LP Topic TPSS 221
Produced by: A L Lloyd
Recorded at: City of London Studios
Tracks were: Side 1, Track 5: Peter Bellamy - The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate; Side 2, Track 1: Peter Bellamy - The Barley and the Rye
Availability: Deleted in 1979

Year: 1973.
Title: Galleries Revisited
Artist: Young Tradition
Released by: Transatlantic in 1973 as 12-inch LP TRASAM 30.
A re-release of ‘Galleries’, TRA 172, first released in 1969.

Year: 1973
Title: The World of Folk Vol. 2
Artists Various artists compilation
Released by: Argo in 1973 as- 12-inch LP SPA 307
A compilation of Argo tracks from 1966, 1970, 1972, 1973
Tracks were: Side 2, Track 7: ‘Yarmouth Town’ - Peter Bellamy, taken from the Transatlantic LP ‘Mainly Norfolk’, XTRA 1060, 1968.

Year: 1974
Title: Peter Bellamy
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Green Linnet as 12-inch LP SIF 1001 (USA)
Produced by: Patrick Sky
Recorded by: Pitt Kinsolving at Green Linnet, New Haven, Connecticut
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy
It was cheaper and easier at the time for UK artists touring the US to press and release product in the US, rather than to import completed LPs from the UK
Tracks were: On Board a ’98, (‘Fanny Blair’ is listed on sleeve as next track but is not on LP), Ramblin’ Robin, Sweet Lemeney, The Poacher’s Fate, Bungay Roger, Courting too Slow, Rigs of the Time. Side Two: Rag Fair, British Man of War, Firelock Stile, The Greenhopper, Ward the Pirate, A Ship to England Came, Old Brown’s Daughter, Searching for Lambs, Nostradamus.

Year: 1974
Title: The Boar’s Head Carol
Artist: Young Tradition.
Released by: Argo in November 1974 as 7-inch Single - AFW 115
Produced by: John Gilbert
Recorded at: The Decca Recording Company, Argo Division
Personnel were: Young Tradition
Tracks were: The Boar’s Head Carol / The Shepherd’s Hymn
The A-side track was ‘The Boar’s Head Carol‘, the B-Side was ‘Shepherds Arise’ from ‘The Holly Bears a Crown’.
Availability: Deleted in 1979.

Year: 1974
Title: The 1st Folk Review Record
Artists: Various artists
Released by: Folksound Records in 1974 as 12-inch LP FS 100
Produced by: Fred Woods
Recorded at: Folksound Studios
Tracks were: Side 1, Track 4: Peter Bellamy - Peggy Bawn; Side 2, Track 2: Peter Bellamy - The Whale Catchers

Year: 1975
Title: Electric Muse
Artists: Various Artists compilation
Released by: Island/Transatlantic, in 1975 as 4-LP compilation boxed set
Producer: Karl Dallas
Re-released as CD re-issue with some omissions and additions
Tracks were: It included Young Tradition’s ‘Lyke Wake Dirge’. On the CD reissue, which was dedicated to Peter among others, this was replaced by ‘The Fox Hunt’.
Availability: CD as The New Electric Muse

Year: 1975
Title: Tell It Like It Was
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Leader/Trailer in 1975 as 12-inch LP TRAILER LER 2089
Manufactured and distributed by Transatlantic
Produced by: Bill Leader
Recorded at: Nest Studios, Birmingham by Jake Commander
A ‘fringe folk’ album; with Peter Bellamy’s words to traditional tunes and vice versa, plus four contemporary songs.
Personnel: Peter Bellamy
Also featuring: Chris Birch on fiddle, guitar and vocal, Anthea Bellamy on harmonies.
Tracks were: Rambling Robin, All In A Day (Alex Glasgow), The Parson’s Peaches, The Ballad of Judas (Bellamy), Farewell to the Land, Nostradamus (Al Stewart), On Board a ’98, Ward The Pirate, Courting Too Slow, The Burning, The Bold Privateer, Fiddler’s Hill, Goodbye (Bellamy).

Year: 1976
Title: The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Green Linnet (USA) in 1976 as 12-inch LP SIF 1002
Produced by: Bill Leader
Recorded at: Nest Studios, Birmingham
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy (anglo concertina), also featuring:Chris Birch (fiddle and harmonies), and Tony Hall (melodeon).
Peter’s requests to record Kipling material were blocked by Kipling’s daughter, but permission was finally granted after her death in this year.
Tracks were: Tommy, Soldier Soldier, Mandalay, Troopin’, Cells, Danny Deever: Side two: Bill ’awkins, Shillin’ a Day, Loot, The Widow at Windsor, The Widow’s Party, Gunga Din.
Re-released as Free Reed 12-inch LP FRR 014 in 1977
Availability: Both vinyl versions deleted

Year: 1976
Title: Eurofolk ’76
Artists Various Artists
Released by: A German Recording Company in 1976 as Double 12-inch LP, EUROFOLK 01-001
Produced by: Stefan Bok
Recorded at: Sound Tonstudio, Ingelheim
Tracks were: Side Four, Track 3: Peter Bellamy - When I Die.

Year: 1976
Title: The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Free Reed Records in 1976 as 12-inch LP FRR 014.
Licensed from Green Linnet/Innisfree Records (USA) as SIF 1002
Produced by: Bill Leader
Recorded at: Nest Studios
Personnel were:Peter Bellamy (anglo concertina). Also featuring: Chris Birch (fiddle and harmonies), and Tony Hall (melodeon).
Tracks were: Tommy, Soldier Soldier, Mandalay, Troopin’, Cells, Danny Deever, Bill ’awkins, Shillin’ a Day, Loot, The Widow at Windsor, The Widow’s Party, Gunga Din.

Year: 1976
Title: Folk Festival
Artist: Various Artists compilation
Released by: Transatlantic in 1976
Tracks were: A compilation which included Young Tradition’s ‘Banks of the Nile’.
Availability: Deleted

Year: 1977
Title: The Transports
Artist: Peter Bellamy and various artists
Released by: Free Reed in Sept 1977 as 12-inch Double LP with integral libretto book, FRRD 021/022
Produced by: Peter Bellamy with Dolly Collins and Nic Kinsey.
Recorded at: Livingston Studios, London, August - September 1977, engineered by: Nic Kinsey
Personnel: A complex and epic ‘folk opera’ with Mike Waterson (as Henry Cabell), Norma Waterson (Susannah Holmes), Martin Carthy (The Turnkey), Nic Jones (The Father), June Tabor (The Mother), A L Lloyd (Abe Carman), Cyril Tawney (The Shantyman), Martin Winsor (The Convict), Vic Legg (The Coachman), The Watersons with Anthea Bellamy (The Transports), and with Peter Bellamy as The Street Singer/Narrator.
Also featuring: An ‘Ensemble’ of musicians: Dave Swarbrick (Violin), Phillipa Davies (Flute), Sophia Wilson (Oboe), Keith Thompson (Whistle), Felix Warnock (Bassoon), Alan Lumsden (Serpent), Oliver Brookes (‘Cello), and all arranged by Dolly Collins.
Tracks were: Side One - 1: Overture, 2: The Ballad of Henry and Susannah (I), 3: Us Poor Fellows, 4: The Robber’s Song, 5: The Ballad (II), 6: The Leaves in the Woodland. Side Two- 1: The Ballad (III), 2: I Once Lived in Service, 3: Norwich Gaol, 4: Sweet Loving Friendship. Side Three - The Ballad (IV), 2: The Black and Bitter Night, 3: The Humane Turnkey (I), 4: The Plymouth Mail, 5: The Humane Turnkey (II). Side Four - The Green Fields of England, 2: Roll Down, 3: The Still & Silent Ocean, 4: The Ballad (V), 5: The Convicts’ Wedding.
Re-released as a single CD (without booklet) as Topic TSCD 459 in 1992
Availability: Generally available as Topic CD, and Vinyl copies still available from Free Reed.

Year: 1977
Title: No Relation
Artist: Royston Wood & Heather Wood
Released by: Transatlantic in 1977 as 12-inch LP TRA 342
Produced by: Royston Wood and Tony Platt
Recorded at: Pebble Beach Studios, Worthing, Jan 1977 by Tony Platt and Eli Perl
Personnel were: Royston Wood, Heather Wood
Also featuring: Tony Hall, Penny Harris, Ashley Hutchings, Pete Kirtley, Simon Nicol
Tracks were: A Shepherd of the Downs (from the Copper Family), Come Ye That Fear the Lord [YT], Foolish, Incredibly Foolish (by Heather Wood) [Heather with Pennie Harris], Bold Benjamin-O [YT], The Bold Astrologer, St. Patrick’s Breastplate, The Cutty Wren, Will You Miss Me? [YT], The Cellar Door (words by John Clare, tune by Royston Wood), Lovin’ Bessie (by Royston Wood), Chaconne in G Minor (by Louis Couperin), Gloria Laus.
Re-released as Transatlantic/Castle CD ESMCD 461, together with all of ‘Galleries’ TRA 172 (1968), and all of the tracks from the Transatlantic EP TRA 164 ‘Chicken on a Raft’ (1967).
Availability: The Castle CD ESMCD 461 containing ‘No Relation’ is generally available.

Year: 1977
Title: The Tale of Ale
Description: A Double LP of the ‘Songs and Stories of the Englishman and his Beer’. Compiled and arranged by Vic Gammon
Released by: Free Reed in 1977 as Double 12-inch LP FRR(D) 023/024
Produced and engineered by Nic Kinsey
Recorded at: Livingston Studios, London
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Robin Dransfield, John Foreman, Vic Gammon, Pam Gilder, Roy Harris, Eddie Upton, Peter Wood.
Also featuring: Oriana, The Pump and Pluck Band, Musica Inebriata
Readings by: Joby Blanshard, Willie Rushton, Michael Smee
Tracks were: Side 1, Track 7: Peter Bellamy and Musica Inebriata - ‘Soldiers Three’; Side 4, Track 8 - Peter Bellamy and the Pump and Pluck Band - ‘October Brew’.
Re-released: by Free Reed Records and Music in CD and Cassette formats as FRCD 23 and FRMC 23 in November 1993. Peter’s tracks from ‘Tale of Ale’ were included by him on his Private Issue tape ‘Peter Bellamy 1974-1977’ compiled in 1977, and available from Jenny Bellamy.
Availability: Free Reed CD and Cassette are generally available.

Year: 1977
Title: Peter Bellamy 1974-1977
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Produced by: Peter Bellamy in 1977 as a Private Issue Cassette: A Compilation of tracks from the American release ‘Peter Bellamy’ (Green Linnet SIF 1001), plus songs from ‘The First Folk Review Record’ (Folksound FS 100) and ‘The Tale of Ale’ (Free Reed FRRD 023/24).
Tracks were: Rag Fair, The Whale Catchers, Firelock Stile, Peggy Bawn, The British Man of War, Courting Too Slow, The Rigs of the Time, Soldiers Three, Old Brown’s Daughter, The Poacher’s Fate, Bungay Roger, A Ship To England Came, Searching For Lambs, The Greenhopper (Phil Burkin), Sweet Lemeney, October Brew (Anon/Bellamy)
All songs traditional except as noted.
Availability: From Jenny Bellamy

Year: 1978
Title: Mrs Casey’s Choice
Artists: Various artists compilation
Released by: Mrs Casey Records in 1978 as Rocking Chair Records 12-inch LP SRCR 101
Produced by: Bill Leader
Recorded at: Nest Studios, London
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy and other Mrs Casey Agency artists
Tracks were: Side 1, Track 5: Peter Bellamy - Tommy; Side 2, Track 2 - Peter Bellamy (with Tony Hall, melodeon) - Gunga Din.

Year: 1979
Title: Both Sides Then
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Topic Records in 1979 as 12-inch LP Topic 12TS 400
Produced by: Peter Bellamy and Nic Kinsey, engineered by: Nic Kinsey
Recorded at: Livingston Studios, 1979.
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Also featuring: Anthea Bellamy, Louis Killen, Bill Shute, Lisa Null, Dave Swarbrick, The Watersons, Royston Wood and Heather Wood.
Tracks were: Side One - 1: Barbaree, 2: The Trees they do grow High, 3: The Lord Will Provide, 4: A Gallant Frigate Amphitrite, 5: A-Roving on a Winter’s Night, 6: Derry Gaol, 7: Long Time Travelling. Side Two - 1: The Shepherd of the Downs, 2: The Housecarpenter, 3: When I Die, 4: Edmund in the Lowlands, 5: Around Cape Horn, 6: The Turfman from Ardee, 7: Amazing Grace.
Re-released by: Fledg’ling Records FLED 1002 1992, with the addition of ‘The Maid of Australia’ as track 8.
Availability: The Fledg’ling CD version is generally available.

Year: 1979
Title: Joe & The Gabe
Artists: Joe Heaney and Gabe O’Sullivan
Released by: Green Linnet (USA) in 1979 as 12-inch LP SIF 1018
An LP of the songs and music of Galway, produced by (but not featuring) Peter Bellamy .
Produced by: Peter Bellamy for Lisa Null’s Innisfree Inc.
Recorded at: Livingston Studios, London in April 1979, engineered by Nic Kinsey
Personnel were: Joe Heaney (vocal) and Gabe O’Sullivan (flute, whistle, fiddle)

Year: 1979
Title: 40 Folk Favourites
Artist: Various artists compilation
Released by: Pickwick in 1980 as double LP and cassette
Tracks were: A compilation album including Young Tradition’s ‘Lyke Wake Dirge’.
Availability: no longer available

Date: 12 Jan 1980
Artist: Peter Bellamy, Chester 1980 - Private Tape
Title: Probably a set of masters entitled ‘Not Just another Pretty Voice’, which was scheduled for release by 1983, and for which sleeve photographs were taken.
Released by: Never issued, but used together with out-takes from ‘Both Sides Then’ (Topic 12TS 400) sessions as ‘Fair Annie’ Private cassette issue, in 1983.
Produced by: Peter Bellamy

Year: 1980
Title: American Primitive
Artist: Bill Shute and Lisa Null
Released by: Green Linnet (USA) in 1980 as 12-inch LP SIF1025.
Produced by: Bill Shute and Lisa Null
Recorded at: Golden East Recording Studio, New Canaan, Connecticut: engineered by Don Wade
Personnel were: Bill Shute and Lisa Null
Also featuring: Peter and Anthea Bellamy, Ken Bloom, Saul Broudy, Tom Conger, Leo Kretzner, Debby McClatchy, Todd Purcell, Claudia Schmidt.
Tracks were: Side 1, Track 1:‘If He’s Gone, Let Him Go’ - Peter and Anthea Bellamy, chorus; Side 2, Track 3: ‘Bonnie Light Horseman’ - Peter Bellamy, Chorus.

Year: 1980
Title: The Good Old Way
Artists: Various artists compilation
Released by: Topic Records in 1980 as TPSS 412.
A Topic Sampler/Compilation LP. Bellamy Track Produced by: Peter Bellamy, Recorded at: Livingston Studios, engineer Nic Kinsey. Personnel Peter Bellamy with Dave Swarbrick on ‘Barbaree’.

Year: 1982
Title: Keep On Kipling
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Fellside Recordings in 1982 as 12-inch LP FE 032.
Produced by: ‘Stalky and Co’ (Paul Adams and Peter Bellamy)
Recorded by: Paul Adams at Fellside Studios, Cumbria in April 1982
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, also featuring: Chris Birch and Anthea Bellamy.
Tracks were: Side One: A Pilgrim’s Way, Cuckoo Song, Blue Roses, Ford O’ Kabul River, The Land, Dayspring Mishandled, Roll Down To Rio. Side Two: The Liner She’s a Lady, Anchor Song, Minesweepers, My Lady’s Law, The Coiner, My Boy Jack, Follow Me ’Ome, Cities and Thrones and Powers
Track 4 was re-released on: Fellside FSC 2 ‘The Fellside Song Sampler’ in 1987
Availability: As cassette tape from Fellside

Year: 1982
Title: The Maritime England Suite
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Produced by: The BBC for a proposed Radio Broadcast ‘We have fed our Sea’, 1982
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, also featuring: Dolly Collins (piano) and Ursula Pank (cello)
An additional flute part was written by Dolly Collins, partial manuscripts of which survives in the Fellside Archive.
Songs of the sea from the Saxons to the 19th century - Kipling, Traditional, and anon/Bellamy.
Tracks were: (In the order as on Peter Bellamy’s Private Tape re-issue) - Song of The Red Warboat, Sir Patrick Spens, Sir Andrew Barton, The Spanish Armada, The Zealous Puritan, The Dutch in The Medway, We Have Fed Our Sea, Andrew Rose & The Cruel Ship’s Captain, The Death of Nelson, The British Man Of War, You Gentlemen of England, The China Clipper.
Released as Private Issue cassette by Peter Bellamy in 1982
Availability: Tapes in the Wall Archive

Year: 1983
Title: Fair Annie
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Peter Bellamy in 1983 as a private issue cassette, 500 copies.
Produced by: Peter Bellamy, remastered in 1983 by Paul Adams.
Recorded at: Probably includes the Chester 1980 Private Tape ‘Not Just Another Pretty Voice’ and with out-takes from the ‘Both Sides Then’ sessions.
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy. Also featuring: Chris Birch, and Dave Swarbrick (fiddle) on ‘Maid of Australia’.
Tracks were: Side A: The Dockyard Gate, Down by the Green Groves, The Molecatcher, Conversation with Death, Down the Moor, Bluey Brink, Santa Fé Trail. Side B: The Maid of Australia, Shepherds Arise, Bungaree, Fair Annie, The Lisburn lass, The Lone Pilgrim.
Availability: All 500 units now sold

Year: 1984
Title: Ten
Recorded live at the Bacca Pipes Folk Club (Keighley) on 2 November 1984 as a Dictatorphone Recording, Dwarf Productions 01.
A very limited tape only release (available only to those who were there on the night).
Recorded by: Jim Ellison*
The tape (a two cassette set) features selected performances from the club regulars at a celebration of a decade of service by the club’s organiser Jenny Scott)
Peter has one featured spot singing A Conversation With Your Ma ("The F Word") which he has brought back from a trip to the States. This evening marked his return to the club. Other artists featured on the tape include Gordon Tyrrall, Mountain Ash, Phil Speight and Jamie O’Dwyer, Octopus Ceilidh Band and George Clark.
Peter can be heard on chorus/harmony and vocal interjections throughout.
*aside from being one of Sharon and The Students, Jim duetted with Peter on The Dutch In The Medway (on Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs)

Year: 1985
Title: The Better Land
Artists: Sharon and the Students
Released by: Private Issue Cassette in 1985
Produced and Recorded by: Nigel Schofield, on April 9 1985
Personnel were: Helen & Mike Hockenhull, Lynda Hardcastle, Alan Rose, Maggy Murphy, Neil Adam, Jim Ellison, Joel Griffiths, John Wade, Anthea Bellamy, Peter Bellamy.
Sharon and the Students were a shape-note and Balkan-style singing group from Keighley: Anthea Bellamy was invited to join them, and Peter Bellamy dropped in and out of the line-up occasionally, and was on this Sharon and the Students’ cassette, recorded 1985. They also provided harmonies on the 1989 LP ‘Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs’, Dambuster DAM 019.
Tracks were: Helo Malenka, Northfield, Antioch, Sito mi e milo, White, Evening Shade, The Better Land, May song, Daniel Prayed.

Year: 1985
Title: Second Wind
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: English Folk Dance and Song Society in October 1985 as 12-inch LP EFDSS ES 002
Produced and recorded by: Nigel Schofield at Pennine Studios.
Tracks were: Side One: The Bush Girl, God A’ Mercy Penny, The Black And Bitter Night, Fair and Tender ladies, The Exile Song, Devil Got Your Man. Side Two: Lord Randall, Abe Carmen, The Glass On The Bar, The Honest Labourer, Maria’s Gone, Motherless Child.

Year: 1986
Title: Flash Company
Artists: Various Artists
A celebration of the first 10 Years of Fellside Records
Released by: Fellside in 1986 as 12-inch LP FE 050
A Fellside compilation, largely of new tracks, to benefit Nic Jones and his family.
Produced by: Paul and Linda Adams, May 1986
Recorded and Remastered by: Paul Adams
Tracks were: Side 2, Track 6 - Peter Bellamy with Dave Swarbrick - ‘The Maid of Australia’. This Track produced by Nic Kinsey at Livingston Studios.

Year: 1986
Title: The Crab Wars
Artists: Various Artists
Released by: Dambuster Records in 1986 as 12-inch LP DAM 017 and DAM CD 017
A humorous Ballad Opera - and a direct parody of ‘The Transports’, with many folk names of the day, including The Kipper Family (Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden). Peter Bellamy gave much encouragement to The Kippers’ career, and was credited as ‘collecting’ half a line of ‘The Village P.I.M.P’ on their first album.
Produced by: Richard Digance and Dave Bubb and Chris Sugden
Recorded at: Dambuster Studios, 1986 (one track at Woodworm Studios)
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy on several tracks
Tracks were: Side Three, Tracks 1 & 8, and Side Four, Track 2: ‘Here is The News’, nos 1-4. - Peter Bellamy singing the part of ‘The Town Crier’.

Year: 1987
Title: Mainly Norfolk and Fair England’s Shore
This was a Private Issue Cassette of ‘Mainly Norfolk’ and ‘Fair England’s Shore’ from 1968, both by Peter Bellamy (his first two solo albums of all traditional English songs).
Released by: Peter Bellamy - home production. A Double cassette album.
Tracks were: The German Musicianer, Lovely Joan, The 14th of February, The Shooting of His Dear, The Saucy Sailor, Yarmouth Town, Just As The Tide Was Flowing, Fakenham Fair, The Lofty Tall Ship, Butter and Cheese and All, The Turtle Dove, Young Roger Esquire, Fanny Blair, The Long Pegging Awl, The Good Luck Ship, The Green Bed, All Around My Hat, The Dockyard Gate, The Prentice Boy, The Dogger Bank, The Dark Eyed Sailor, You Gentlemen of England, Jolly Roving Tar.
Availability: From Jenny Bellamy

Year: 1987
Title: The Fellside Song Sampler
Artists: Various artists compilation
Released by: Fellside in 1987 as 12-inch LP FSC 2
Tracks were: Includes ‘Ford o’ Kabul River’ from ‘Keep on Kipling’, Fellside LP FE 032, 1982.
Availability: From Fellside.

Year: 1989??
Title: Puck’s Songs. 1970/1972
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Peter Bellamy as a private issue cassette of his Argo LPs originally entitled "Oak Ash & Thorn" (ZFB 11) and "Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye" (ZFB 81). These are the first two albums of original settings of poems by Rudyard Kipling (from the books "Puck of Pook’s Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies")
Personnel were: Mainly Peter, also featuring: vocal assistance from Royston Wood, Heather Wood, Chris Birch and Anthea Bellamy, Fred Woods and Mike Edmunds. Plus Barry Dransfield (fiddle) Nic Jones (fiddle) Dolly Collins (flute/organ) Peter Hall (lute) and Dik Cadbury (counter tenor).
Tracks were: Frankie’s Trade, Poor Honest Men, Cold Iron, Sir Richard’s Song, The Looking Glass, A Tree Song (Oak Ash & Thorn), King Henry the VIII and The Shipwrights, The Brookland Road, A Three Part Song, The Ballad of Minepit Shaw, Our Fathers of Old, Philadelphia, Puck’s Song, A Smuggler’s Song, The Run of The Downs, Eddi’s Service, The Queen’s Men, The Beeboy’s Song, Harp Song of the Dane Women, Song of the Men’s Side, An Astrologer’s Song, Prophets at Home, A Carol (Who Shall Judge The Lord?), A St. Helena Lullaby, The Way Through The Woods, A Truthful Song (The Bricklayer and The Shipwright), Song of the Red Warboat.
Availability: from Jenny Bellamy

Year: 1989
Title: The Young Tradition (compilation).
Artist: Young Tradition
Released by: DEMON in 1989 as 12-inch LP, TRANDEM 5
A compilation from the first three Young Tradition Albums, issued under licence from Transatlantic.
Produced by: Bill Leader.
Compiled by: Jerry Gilbert.

Year: 1989
Title: Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Dambuster in 1989 as 12-inch LP DAM 019.
Produced by: Nigel Schofield
Recorded at: Pennine Studios
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, also featuring: Jamie O’Dwyer (fiddle), Sharon and the Students (harmonies), and Jim Ellison.
Sharon and the Students were a shape-note and Balkan-style singing group from Keighley: Anthea Bellamy was invited to join them, and Peter Bellamy dropped in and out of the line-up occasionally, and he was on the Sharon and the Students’ cassette, recorded 1985.
Tracks were: Back To The Army Again, Big Steamers, Gethsemane, The Prodigal Son, The Roman Centurion’s Song, We Have Fed Our Sea, The Dutch in The Medway, A Song To Mithras, En-Dor, Heriot’s Ford, The Anvil, The Wet Litany, Thorkild’s Song, Recessional.

Year: 1990
Title: Soldiers Three
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Peter Bellamy as a private issue cassette in 1990.
Produced by: Nigel Schofield
Recorded at: Urizen Studios
Settings of Kipling’s Barrack-Room Ballads, released to coincide with the New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme’s production of ‘Soldiers Three’, scripted by Tony Perrin.
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, also featuring: Jamie O’Dwyer (fiddle), Brian Stafford (uilleann pipes on ‘Shillin’ a Day’), Maggie Boyle, Steve Tilston and Keith Marsden.
Tracks were: Two by Two, The Widow at Windsor, Tommy, The Young British Soldier, Route Marching, Shillin’ a Day, Soldier Soldier, That Day, Bill ’Awkins, Ford O’ Kabul River, The Widow’s Party, Loot, The Baynit and The Butt, Private Orther is’ Song, Gunga Din, Cells, Cholera Camp, The Ladies, Follow Me ’ome, Gentleman Rankers, Danny Deever, Troopin’, Mandalay.
Availability: From Jenny Bellamy

Year: 1990
Title: An anthology of traditional folk songs (1966-1990)
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Peter Bellamy in 1990 as cassette only private release
Produced by: various hands, though the cassette compilation was by Peter Bellamy & Nigel Schofield
Personnel were: Dave Swarbrick, Royston Wood, Heather Wood, Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins, Ursula Pank, Alan Rose, Mike Hockenhull, Barry Dransfield, Louis Killen, Chris Birch, Lisa Null, Bill Shute, Musica Inebriata
Tracks were: Side A: On board a ’98, Betsy the serving maid, The frigate Amphitrite, Lullay my liking (at the time unavailable on official release now on YT’s Christmas album), The honest labourer, Lovely Willy (recorded live in Norwich, 1971), The death of Nelson, Malenka (from the Sharon and the Students session), The barley and the rye, A ship to England came, A shepherd of the downs (1979 recording with Louis Killen), Ward the pirate, The bitter withy, The London Waterman (1990 recording for this compilation, recorded at Urizen Studios), The Santa Fe trail. Side B: A roving on a winter’s night, Warlike seaman, Soldiers three, Fanny Blair, The molecatcher, Rambling Robin, Bright morning stars, Lord Randall, Sir Andrew Barton, Down the moor, The Penny wager, The trees they do grow high, Young Roger esquire (recorded live at Sidney Opera House, 1980), Tyne of Harrow (1990 recording for this compilation, recorded at Urizen Studios).
Availability: This was a very limited edition cassette only compilation intended to be available solely on an American tour. Aside from tracks previously available, some unreleased tracks and some tracks recorded for this compilation were included. (Peter was at the time recording tracks for a possible new album)

Year: 1990,
Title: An anthology of Rudyard Kipling songs
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Released by: Peter Bellamy, in 1990, as cassette-only release
Produced by: various hands, compilation produced by Peter Bellamy and Nigel Schofield
Recorded at: various locations
Personnel were: Chris Birch, Royston Wood, Heather Wood, Nic Jones, Jamie O’Dwyer, Dolly Collins, Dave Swarbrick, Anthea Birch, Brian Stafford, Barry Dransfield, Dave Arthur, Sharon and the Students
Tracks were: Side A: A pilgrim’s way, Oak ash and thorn, The run of the downs, Bill ’awkins, En-dor, My boy, Jack, We have fed our sea (Maritime England suite version), Anchor song, A smuggler’s song, Shillin’ a day (from ’Soldiers’ Three’ sessions - alternative take), Cold Iron (live at Sidney Opera House, 1980), My lady’s law, Cholera Camp (from Soldiers’ Three sessions), Poor Honest Men. Side B: The liner she’s a lady, Big Steamers (re-recording for this release), An astrologer’s song, Philadelphia (re-recording for this release), Sir Richard’s song (session from Pennine Radio, 1986), Dayspring mishandled, Danny Deever (from Soldiers’ Three sessions), Song of the red warboat (Maritime England suite version), Harpsong of the Dane Women, Cities & thrones & powers, The widow at Windsor, The way through the woods (session from Pennine Radio, 1986), Recessional.
Availability: This was a very limited edition cassette only compilation intended to be available solely on an American tour. Aside from tracks previously available, some unreleased tracks and some tracks recorded for this compilation were included, as were tracks recorded for the Soldiers Three project.

Year: 1989/1990
Title: My Pretty Jenny’s House
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Last recordings in preparation for next release.
Released by: Not released
Produced by: Nigel Schofield
Recorded at: Urizen Studios, Bradford
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy
Tracks completed were: The Old Songs (Copper/Bellamy), The London Waterman, Her servant man, Slip jigs and reels (Tilston) (at the time referred to as "The ten shilling note"), Way down town, I’m worried, Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor, Tyne of Harrow, Death is not the end (Dylan)
This was the album which Peter was working on at the time of his death. Several of the recordings were pre-empted by their inclusion in the live ‘Songs and Rummy Conjuring Tricks’ cassette. Peter decided to make this a totally solo project, although earlier sessions had taken place involving, among others, Steve Tilston.

Year: 1990
Title: Songs an’ Rummy Conjurin’ Tricks
Artist: Peter Bellamy.
Released by: Fellside in February 1990 as 12-inch LP FSC 5 .
A live performance, digitally recorded.
Produced by: Paul Adams
Recorded at: Cockermouth or Whitehaven Folk Club
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy with audience chorus
Traditional, Kipling and other songs (including sixold favourites and 11 fresh pieces)
Tracks were: On Board a ’98, Big Steamers (Kipling/Bellamy), Tyne of Harrow, The London Waterman, Cholera Camp (Kipling/Bellamy), The Brisk Young Widow, Death is Not The End (Bob Dylan), St Celia’s Rocks, The Old Songs (Bob Copper/Bellamy), Slip Jigs and Reels (Steve Tilston), Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor, Down The Moor, The Death of Bill Brown, Days of 49, Her Servant Man, Anchor Song (Kipling/Bellamy), The Santa Fé Trail.
Availability: from Fellside as Cassette.

Year: 1992
Title: The Transports
Artist: Peter Bellamy and various artists
Re-release of the 1977 Free Reed double LP FRRD 021/2 as Topic Records CD TSCD 459
Availability: The Topic CD is generally available, and the original double vinyl LP is still available from Free Reed as a Collector’s Vinyl Edition.

Year: 1992
Title: Both Sides Then
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Re-release of Topic LP 12TS 400 of 1979, as Fledg’ling Records FLED 1002, with the addition of ‘The Maid of Australia’ as track 8.
Availability: The Fledg’ling CD version is generally available.

Year: 1994
Title: The British Folk Collection
Artists: Various artists compilation
Released by: Ronco as compilation album
Tracks were: Selections from the usual suspects plus one or two surprises on this compilation which marked the first UK release of a Young Tradition track on CD.

Year: 1995
Title: The Holly Bears the Crown
Artist: Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins.
Released by: Fledg’ling on CD in 1995 as FLED 3006
Recorded at: Decca Studios, 1969
Produced by: John Gilbert.
Not previously released on vinyl.
Personnel were: Young Tradition, also featuring: Shirley Collins (vocals), Dolly Collins portative organ, arrangements), Roddy & Adam Skeaping (bass and tenor viols) Readings from Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf by Gary Watson
Tracks were: The Boar’s Head Carol [YT ], Is it Far to Bethlehem? (words by Frances Chesterton) [Shirley & Heather], Lullay my Liking (Tune by Gustav Holst)[All], The Cherry-Tree Carol (Tune by Shirley) [Shirley], Shepherds Arise (From the Copper Family) [YT], I Sing of a Maiden {Shirley], Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day [YT, Dolly, Adam & Roddy], A Virgin Most Pure [Shirley & Heather], Coventry Carol [YT, Shirley], The Holly Bears the Crown [YT, Shirley], March, the Morning Sun (written by Royston) [Shirley with Dolly], Bring Us In Good Ale [All]
Availability: Generally available from Fledg’ling Records.

Year: 1997
Title: Galleries / No Relation
Artist: Young Tradition
This recording consists of the complete album Galleries (LP TRA 172), the EP Chicken on a Raft (EP TRA 164), and selections from No Relation (1977).
Released by: Castle in the UK in 1997 as one CD - Essential ESM CD 461.
Availability: This Castle CD is generally available

Year: 1997
Title: New Electric Muse II
Artist: Various artists compilation
Released by: Castle in 1997 as CD
Tracks were: Two Young Tradition tracks were included - ‘The Agincourt Carol’ and ‘Bring Us In Good Ale’.
Availability: Castle CD is generally available.

Year:?? Undated Re-issue
Title: FOLK SAMPLER- Various Artists
Artists: Various Artists compilation
Released by: Transatlantic in ??- as 12-5012
Distributed by: BASF Nederland B.V.
Tracks were: Side 2, Track 2 - Peter Bellamy, The Bold Privateer
An Original Trailer Recording.

Undated Recordings

Probably pre-1966 -

Calibre auto recording of Peter Bellamy and Tony McCarthy singing Paddy Doyle’s Boots and Blood Red Roses. No date. 45rpm 6 inch single, one sided.

In Jenny Bellamy Collection

Year: ??
Title: The Rest of Young Tradition. (Odds and Ends/Live in Pennsylvania 1967- 1969)
Artist: Young Tradition
Released by Peter Bellamy as a Double Private Issue Cassette Album in ???
Tracks were: 1-6: from the 1967 Transatlantic EP; ‘Chicken on a Raft’ - EP TRA 164 (1967): Tracks: Chicken on a Raft, Randy Dandy O, Fire Marengo, Hanging Johnny, Bring ’em Down, Haul on the Bowline. 7-13: from the unissued 1969 ‘The Holly Bears the Crown’ album with Shirley and Dolly Collins: (now issued as Fledg’ling CD FLED 3006, 1995).?Tracks: The Boar’s Head Carol, Lullay My Liking, My Dancing Day, The Coventry Carol, The Holly and The Ivy, Bring us in Good Ale. 14-20: from 1968 or 69: Live recordings at the "Main Disaster Point" Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Tracks: The Foxhunt, Ratcliffe Highway, The Tay Bridge, John Barleycorn, Two Pretty Boys, The Innocent Hare, Bright Morning Star.
Availability: From Jenny Bellamy

Jenny Bellamy’s Tapes Service

Jenny Bellamy markets a range of Peter Bellamy’s ‘private issue/pirated’ tapes by mail order.
Titles and running times are:

Sessionography - in course of Preparation

Broadcast Date: 13 November 1968
Title: “My Kind of Folk” – Episode 37
Host: Jackson C. Frank
Artists: Jackson C. Frank, Young Tradition, Chris Hardy
Tracks were: Jackson C. Frank: Blues Run the Game, Young Tradition: The Innocent Hare, Jackson C. Frank: Dialogue (I Want to Be Alone), Young Tradition: Randy Dandy-O!, Jackson C. Frank: Golden Mirror, Chris Hardy: Richmond Walking Song, Jackson C. Frank: Just Like Anything, Young Tradition: Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth, Jackson C. Frank: My Name is Carnival.
Availability: YouTube.

Recording Date: 29 January 1969
Broadcast Date: 12 February 1969
Title: John Peel Session
Artist: Young Tradition
Produced by: John Muir
Recorded at: The Playhouse Theatre, Manchester on 29 Jan 1969
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Heather Wood, Royston Wood
Also featuring: Christopher Hogwood and David Munro
Tracks were: John Barleycorn, Wondrous Love, The Banks of the Nile, 3 Traditional Airs, 5 Cuts Jig, En Vrai Amour, Bright Morning Star, The Rolling of the Stones, What if a Day, Or a Month, Or a Yeare?
. Availability: Tapes now lost.

Recording Date: 12 August 1969
Broadcast Date: 27 August 1969
Title: John Peel Session
Artist: Young Tradition
Produced by: Pete Ritzema
Recorded at: Maida Vale Studios
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, Heather Wood, Royston Wood
Also featuring: Christopher Hogwood
Tracks were: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, The Husbandman and Servingman, Bright Morning Star, The Shepherd’s Hymn, Claudy Banks. Availability: Tapes now lost

Broadcast Date: 25 May 1978
Programme: BBC Radio 2’s ‘Folkweave’
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Recorded at: Brighton Folk Festival 1977
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, voice & concertina
Tracks were: Tommy, A Ship to England Came, Riding on Top of the Car (partial take only)
Availability: Tapes in Wall Archive

Year: 1980
Programme: BBC Radio Folk on Two
Artist: Peter Bellamy with Dave Swarbrick
Availability: Tapes in David Suff Archive

Year: late 1980s
Title: Live performance at Bristol Folk Club
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Availability: Tapes in David Suff Archive

Year: 1982
Title: The Maritime England Suite
Artist: Peter Bellamy
Produced by: The BBC For the Radio 3 Broadcast ‘We have fed our Seas’, 1982
Personnel were: Peter Bellamy, also featuring: Dolly Collins (piano) and Ursula Pank (cello)
Songs of the sea from the Saxons to the 19th century - Kipling, Traditional, and anon/Bellamy.
Tracks were: Song of The Red Warboat, Sir Patrick Spens, Sir Andrew Barton, The Spanish Armada, The Zealous Puritan, The Dutch in The Medway, We Have Fed Our Seas, Andrew Rose & The Cruel Ship’s Captain, The Death of Nelson, The British Man Of War, You Gentlemen of England, The China Clipper.
Re-released as Private Issue Cassette via Jenny Bellamy
Availability: Tapes in the Dave Harris Archive

1985-86 Various sessions for Pennine Radio Bradford. All tracks have subsequently seen release either on vinyl or as part of Peter’s Private Release cassette collection

1989-1991 Unreleased sessions at Urizen Studios, including material listed under My Pretty Jenny’s House and three tracks with Steve Tilston

Peter regularly recorded his live appearances so it is impossible to catalogue all his live tapes (both audio and video)

Two notable live recordings both include Louis Killen. These are 1982 at McCabe’s (* Peter Bellamy, + duets): Blow Boys Blow, Alabama*, Sir Patrick Spens, On Board a 98*, Do Me Ana, The drowned lover*, Claudy banks+, Ah cud hew, The liner she’s a lady*, Merry Haymakers+, Keilder Hunt, Innocent Hare+, We have fed our seas*, Death of Nelson, Warlike Seaman+, General Taylor, Haul on the bowline*, Fair Annie*, Shoals of herring, Keep your feet still Geordie hinnie, Top of the car*, Old dun cow+, Trees they do grow high*, Night visiting song, Two Brethren+, Sir Richard’s song*, Hexamshire Lass, Follow me ’ome*, Pleasant and delightful, Shepherds Arise+, Shepherd of the downs+

Young Tradition Reunion, 1988
(Peter was less than happy with the result, but here are the tracks; those featuring Louis Killen are shown thus (+)):Holmfirth Anthem+, Fox Hunt, Kielder Hunt+, Oak Ash and Thorn, Innocent hare, White Cockade+, Bold fisherman, Lyke Wake Dirge, Ca’ the yowes+, Byker Hill, Heave away+

Summary

This discography, based substantially on the original research of David Suff and Heather Wood, attempts to list the original release of all the recordings that feature Peter Bellamy. Please write if you spot any errors or omissions. Thanks.
Compiled by Neil Wayne with great help from Nigel Schofield, David Suff, Heather Wood, Jenny Bellamy, Paul Adams, Anthea Bellamy and Ed Haber.
BBC My Kind of Folk (1968) added by Reinhard Zierke