What's the connection between Prohibition and the dixie cup? It's not what you think: their connection had more to do with ...

June is the month of weddings. That's probably why it was also a good month for the Dixie Cups' debut single "Chapel of Love," which topped the pop charts in June of 1964, knocking The Beatles out of ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins, one of the three original singers in New Orleans rhythm & blues vocal trio the Dixie Cups, died Tuesday at Tampa General Hospital in Florida. She was 76. Older sister and fellow ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Rosa Lee Hawkins, an original member of the rhythm and blues trio the Dixie Cups who shot to No. 1 with “Chapel of Love” in 1964, died Tuesday in a Florida hospital. She was 76. Her ...

Dixie cups were like the Zoom of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, which helped the product become a household name. In 1907, Boston attorney Lawrence Luellen created a cup. It wasn’t made of glass or ...

They beat the odds more than once. As the Dixie Cups, sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Lee Hawkins recorded the No. 1 hit "Chapel of Love" in 1964, followed by three more Top 40 songs. Four decades later, ...

Rosa Hawkins, one of the trio of singers who performed with the Dixie Cups, died on Tuesday in Tampa, Florida, following complications from a surgery last week. She was 76. The Dixie Cups debuted in ...

The songwriters Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry got married, and then, a year later, they wrote “Chapel Of Love.” They brought the song to producer Phil Spector. They’d already worked with him a bunch, ...

When Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich wrote “Chapel of Love” with producer Phil Spector in early 1963, Darlene Love was first to record it. Unhappy with the result, Mr. Spector shelved it. Next Mr.

NEW ORLEANS — Rosa Lee Hawkins, best known as one of the trio of singers for the Dixie Cups singing group, has died at the age of 76, according to a report on NOLA.com by music and entertainment ...