CHICAGO LINE BLUES BAND

Lead Vocals: Mike Patto McCarthy

Keys: Tim Hinkley

Guitar: Ivan Zagni

Trumpet: Mike Fellana

Bass: Louis Cennamo

Drums: Viv Prince

Adopted band closely related to Patto's People through local musicians McCarthy and Zagni.

Removing the release Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop from the group’s history (see main body of text) I could only see that the band play between March and May 1967. Patto remarks to the Trouser Press publication in 1976, “I formed a band with Viv Prince ex Pretty Things called Patto’s People. It had Tim Hinkley and Louis Cennamo on bass and a trumpet player called Mike Fellana, a Nigerian cat who played with Graham Bond. This was around the end of ‘65 or early ‘66. After two months we sat down and very deliberately named ourselves the Chicago Line Blues Band. We did pretty well, but one day we stopped at a traffic light and Viv Prince got out and said, 'That’s it, I’ve had enough. No hard feelings.' Then I took up an occupation that I’d always wanted to do -- I sang with a London Youth Jam (Jazz) Orchestra.”

I would certainly call into question Patto’s dating of the group just from known gigs and movements, although research is on going. 

Discography:

The Archive no longer credits the single Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop released 06/05/66 as connected to Mike Patto.

Related titles:

The Chicago Line with Mike Patto

Patto's People <> (Patto - London Youth Jazz Orch)