 In the late 1960, he formed his own Swing Kings band which backed some leading American jazz musicians who toured Britain, including Buck Clayton, Ben Webster, Bill Coleman and Charlie Shavers.He also recorded "The Song of a Road", one of the radio ballads by folk singers Ewan 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.