
Artist
The Dixie Cups
The Dixie Cups is a musical artist. 10 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
- 10
- Releases
- 1964–2025
- Active years
Discography
6
Most popular
Essential Classics, Vol. 484: The Dixie Cups
2025
Singles & EPs
4Upcoming shows
About
The Dixie Cups are an American pop music girl group from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA who peaked in the mid 1960s. The trio consisted of sisters Barbara and Rosa Lee Hawkins; plus their cousin Joan Johnson, from the Calliope housing project in New Orleans. They first sang together in grade school. Originally they were to be called Little Miss and the Muffets, but were named The Dixie Cups just prior to their first release. By 1963 the trio had decided to pursue a career in music and began singing locally as the Meltones. Within a year Joe Jones, a successful singer in his own right with the Top Five 1960 single "You Talk Too Much," became their manager. After working with them for five months, Jones took them to New York, where record producers / songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller signed them to their new Red Bird Records. Their first release in 1964, "Chapel of Love," proved to be their biggest hit, although they had other hits with "People Say" (#12, 1964), "You Should Have Seen the Way He Looked at Me" (#39, 1964), "Iko Iko" (#20, 1965), and "Little Bell" (#51, 1965). In 1969 the Hawkins sisters moved from New York to New Orleans, where Rosa Hawkins began a successful …
The Dixie Cups in brief
- How many The Dixie Cups releases are on Riffiter?
- 10 releases are catalogued, spanning 1964 to 2025.
- What is the most recent The Dixie Cups release on Riffiter?
- Essential Classics, Vol. 484: The Dixie Cups, released in 2025.








