John Chilton MacColl and Peggy Seeger in the 1950s for the BBC. He later worked with Wally Fawkes, also known as the cartoonist 'Trog', and in January 1974 formed John Chilton's Feetwarmers, who began accompanying British jazz singer and writer George Melly. Together they made records and toured the world for nearly 30 years including trips to America, Australia, China and New Zealand. In 1983 and 1984 they had their own BBC television series called "Good Time George". They appeared on countless other TV shows, including "Parkinson", "The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club", "Aspel", "This is Your Life" and "Pebble Mill at
John Chilton One". Chilton was also a songwriter and composer and one of his songs, "Give Her A Little Drop More", was used in the film "St Elmo's Fire" (1985), sung by the Hollywood Brat Pack including Demi Moore and Rob Lowe. Chilton is one of the few European writers to win a Grammy Award for his album notes on Bunny Berigan (1983) and was runner-up for a further Grammy award in 2000. In the same year he won the British Jazz Award for Writer of the Year. His "Who's Who of Jazz" was described by the poet Philip Larkin as "one