He played keyboards on the highly successful 1979 solo debut album by Rickie Lee Jones. He toured with Willy DeVille and contributed to his albums "Return to Magenta" (1978), "Victory Mixture" (1990), "Backstreets of Desire" (1992), and "Big Easy Fantasy" (1995). In 1997 he contributed piano and vocals to the Spiritualized song "Cop Shoot Cop" which appears on their album, "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space". His music was featured in many films, including "New Looks" in "National Lampoon's European Vacation" in 1985 and "Such a Night" in "Colors" in 1988. In 1992, Dr. John released the album "Goin' Back to New Orleans", which included many classic songs from New Orleans. Many great New Orleans-based musicians, such as Aaron Neville, the Neville Brothers, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain, backed up Dr. John on this album. He also performed as the first American artist at the Franco Follies festival in 1992.