It's 24th September today, which means its 19 years to the day since Peter Bellamy's untimely demise. There is a complete dearth of film or video evidence of Mr Bellamy available on the internet (just type "Peter Bellamy" into Youtube and you'll see what we mean - a big, fat nada). In lieu of any actual performance footage, we've posted this illustrated sound recording of Peter's singing of "The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate". The song is taken from the 1970 album of the same name, which was long out of print but has now been made available again as a download-only reissue from the redoubtable Topic Records from all the usual sources. 

The sleeve notes to the original vinyl edition of the album described the song as "straight from the Bellamy family repertoire. The words from a Randolph Caldecott picture book. 'The tune,' says Peter Bellamy, 'was from me mum.' PB was fascinated by this song as a nipper and continues to be so. With justification."

The song and the illustrations have been reunited by our very own Sedayne, working under his Youtube alter-ego of Sabrina Eden.

We hope you enjoy it. Hopefully there'll be a good few songs from the pen or repertoire of Mr Bellamy having an outing at singarounds and folk clubs up and down the country tonight...
 


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