WHAT was the title of the song the great pianist Allen Toussaint wrote for R&B star Ernie K-Doe? – N.

That was Mother-InLaw, at No 29 UK hit for Ernie (real name Ernest Kador) in 1961.

It reached No 1 on the US Billboard pop charts.

Toussaint (above) was a giant of the New Orleans music scene and also wrote Fortune Teller, Get Out My Life Woman and Here Come The Girls.