things Bellamy, and bleat daily incantations in the hope of advancing the day when he will finally return to reign in ever-lasting glory." He was himself good-natured, and even a bit proprietorial, about references to his style as "bleating". In addition to the self-given sobriquet of "boring bleating old traddy", picked out in letters on a Scrabble board on a self-designed record-sleeve photograph by Valerie Grosvenor Myer and used, as noted above, as title of a Mudcat Cafe thread, and to the anagrammatic name attributed to the cartoon character based on him mentioned in the previous paragraph, he once rejoined to a Folk Review magazine correspondent, who had attributed to his influence a preponderance of (Toytown character) "Larry the Lamb" imitators in folk clubs, "Larry the Lamb imitations, dear Madam, are strictly my copyright!" Discography The Young Tradition The Young Tradition (1966) So Cheerfully Round (1967) Galleries (1968) The Young Tradition and Shirley and Dolly Collins The Holly Bears The Crown (1969) Louis Killen and Peter Bellamy Won't You Go My Way? (1971) Solo albums Mainly Norfolk (1968) Fair England's Shore (1968) The Fox Jumped Over The Parson's Gate (1969) Oak Ash and Thorn (1970) Won't You Go My Way (1971) Merlin's Island of Gramarye (1972) Barrack Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling (1975) Peter Bellamy (1975) Tell It Like It Was (1975) Both Sides Then (1979) Keep on Kipling (1982) The Maritime England Suite (1982) Fair Annie (1983) Second Wind (1985) Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs (1989) Soldiers Three (1990) Songs and Rummy Conjurin' Tricks (1991) Compilation Wake The Vaulted Echoes (1999) The Ballads of Peter Bellamy (2008) Various artists including Peter Bellamy The Transports (1977) "Friends of Peter Bellamy" The Transports (2004) References 1944 births 1991 suicides English folk singers English male singers Alumni of the Royal College of Art People from Warham, Norfolk Suicides in England Concertina players 20th-century English singers Musicians from Norfolk 20th-century British male singers Topic Records artists