 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.