Dixie Cups News & Updates

Dixie Cups will celebrate 'Chapel of Love' for hit's 60th birthday at free New Orleans show

Going to the chapel, indeed. The Dixie Cups, the legendary "girl group" that rocketed to the top of ...

Feb 29, 2024 • NOLA.com

Rosa Lee Hawkins, Singer of The Dixie Cups, Dies at 76

The New Orleans girl group's "Chapel of Love" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 By Steve Kn...

Jan 16, 2022 • Billboard

‘Chapel of Love’ singer Rosa Lee Hawkins of Dixie Cups dead at 76

TAMPA, Fla. — Rosa Lee Hawkins, an original member of the rhythm and blues trio the Dixie Cups who...

Jan 13, 2022 • WOKV

The Dixie Cups are your midday music break

June is the month of weddings. That's probably why it was also a good month for the Dixie Cups' debu...

Jun 05, 2014 • NOLA.com

Rosa Lee Hawkins, singer in ’60s girl group The Dixie Cups, dies during surgery

Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Johnson and Barbara Ann Hawkins perform live as The Dixie Cups in 1965. CREDI...

Jan 17, 2022 • NME

Original Dixie Cups singer Rosa Hawkins dies at age 76

Rosa Hawkins, one of the trio of singers who performed with the Dixie Cups, died on Tuesday in Tampa...

Jan 11, 2022 • OffBeat

The Dixie Cups and ‘Chapel of Love’

When Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich wrote “Chapel of Love” with producer Phil Spector in early 1...

Jun 16, 2015 • Wall Street Journal

Paying tribute to The Dixie Cups

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)– They went to the chapel of love, and we still love them today! We talked to tw...

Oct 18, 2016 • WGNO

How Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic

Dixie cups were like the Zoom of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, which helped the product become a...

Jul 06, 2020 • Fast Company

The Number Ones: The Dixie Cups’ “Chapel Of Love”

The songwriters Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry got married, and then, a year later, they wrote "Chap...

Jun 19, 2018 • Stereogum

Chapel of Love and Dixie Cups singer Joan Marie Johnson dead at 72

10:35, Wed, Oct 12, 2016 Updated: 10:54, Wed, Oct 12, 2016 The singer died in New Orleans of congest...

Oct 12, 2016 • Daily Express

Dixie Cups’ Barbara Hawkins | Fridays Off… Beat

The Dixie Cups’ Barbara Hawkins tells the story of “Iko Iko” and talks celebrating 60 years of...

Apr 04, 2024 • OffBeat

Celebrating 60 Years of "Chapel of Love" With The Dixie Cups

The Dixie Cups joined us for Valentine's Day to reflect on 60 years of their hit song, "Chapel of Lo...

Feb 13, 2024 • WWLTV

See Drake and tributes to the Dixie Cups and Little Queenie in New Orleans March 7-13

The clubs are bustling the week of March 7-13, 2024, and a festival celebrates a jazz banjoist’s l...

Mar 05, 2024 • NOLA.com

A Dixie Cup remembered: Rosa Hawkins' sister reflects on the loss of 'a very strong woman'

Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups has died of complications from surgery less than a year after sha...

Jan 11, 2022 • AOL