The Dixie Cups are an American pop music girl group established in the 1960s. They are best known for a string of hits including their singles "Chapel of Love", "People Say", and "Iko Iko".
members: Joan Marie Johnson, Barbara Anne Hawkins, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Dale Mickle, Beverly Brown, Athelgra Neville
formed in: New Orleans
labels: Red Bird Records
genres: rhythm and blues
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The trio consisted of sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Lee Hawkins, plus their cousin Joan Marie Johnson, from 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.
"Chapel of Love" is a song written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector, and made famous by the Dixie Cups in 1964, spending three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song tells of the happiness and excitement the narrator feels on her wedding day, for her love and she are going to the "chapel of love", and "[they'll] never be lonely anymore." Many other artists have recorded the song.
The song was written in 1963 by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, who had themselves recently married; Barry later said that "the concept of marriage was very much in my head" at the time. It was written for Darlene Love to record, but producer Phil Spector was dissatisfied with her version and it was not released for some years.