“The Chapel of Love” put the Dixie Cups on the pop music map in June of 1964. The three original members of the “girl group” were two Hawkins sisters, Barbara Ann and Rosa Lee, and their cousin, Joan Marie Johnson. They began singing together in their New Orleans, Louisiana elementary school.

In 1963, as the “Meltones”, they performed in their hometown. They were to become professional recording artists under the name “Little Miss and the Muffets”, but that was changed to the “Dixie Cups” just before their first recording session.

Their song “Iko Iko” was a cover of 1953’s “Jock-a-Mo”, recorded by “Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters”. It was recorded when the Dixie Cups were unaware that they were being taped, and were tapping out a rhythm with drumsticks on ashtrays. With base and percussion lines later added, it became the Dixie Cups’ last hit, their fifth to chart.

“Chapel of Love" was their biggest hit, selling more than a million records and hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It appeared on the soundtracks of the films “Full Metal Jacket” and 1991’s “Father of the Bride”. The song made it to number 279 on the “Rolling Stone” list of “The Greatest Songs of All Time”.

Dixie Lily Quick Grits is a cereal product. The Dixie Mafia is a group of criminals based in Biloxi, Mississippi and active in the southern US states.

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