Whichaway Billy and the B side Hobbit Land are the only released recordings from the time back in 1976 when a very young Valeryan (then Valery Ann) was a member of The Settlers.

The band members didn’t like the song but went along with it, as way back when the old line up had recorded The Lightning Tree for York Records, they didn’t like that either and it became their most remembered hit!!

Unfortunately, Whichaway Billy didn’t follow in the steps of The Lightning Tree but it was fun to record and perform at the time. The song was co-written by Dave Myers and Peter Goodall, and the latter many years later became Valeryan’s music partner, then better known as Thunderclap. Between 2011 and 2017 Peter arranged and recorded many of her first 5 albums and 3 later singles.

For historical reasons, Whichaway Billy and Hobbit Land (Smith and Jones) were re-mastered and released on Valeryan’s Groovy Reflections album by One Media IP Ltd 2017