Let's Talk About The Dixie Cups: C/D, S+D.

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So, "Iko Iko" and "Chapel of Love" are great... where do I go from there? What's worth downloading? What's a good album of there's to get? Etc.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "I'm gonna get you yet". it's got a very charming melody and production.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck the Dixie Cups. Edie Sands rules!

― musicmope (musicmope), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dixie cups are great! There's a good collection of everything they recorded on Varese on one CD that has the original version of "Iko Iko" w/ (slightly) dirty lyrics on it... they have tons of great songs, "Gee The Moon Is Shining Bright" & "I'm Gonna Get You Yet" are personal favourites... a nice combination of New Orleans funkiness and wide-eyed girl groop innocence. I really love them a lot actually.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

seventeen years pass...

Rosa Hawkins has died aged 76; an original member of the Dixie Cups with her sister Barbara Ann and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson. Their hits included 'Chapel of Love' (#1); 'People Say' and 'Iko Iko' but they did not receive the royalties due to them - Rosa said that they returned from a national tour to find an eviction notice on the door and the electricity cut off - "We had to call our mothers for money to pay the bills.”

https://www.offbeat.com/news/original-dixie-cups-singer-rosa-hawkins-dies-at-age-76/

― birdistheword, Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:32 (three years ago)

RIP

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:34 (three years ago)

Suppose sooner or later either Josefa or I will recount the story of that first record.

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:35 (three years ago)

Fuck the Dixie Cups. Edie Sands rules!
― musicmope (musicmope), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

Lol at misspelled trollish challops.

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:37 (three years ago)

All part of that same story I mentioned.

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:37 (three years ago)

RIP. People Say is an all-time favorite.

― that's not my post, Thursday, 13 January 2022 20:56 (three years ago)

RIP. Personal fave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdwCiq60He4

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:12 (three years ago)

Record man George Goldner to thread!

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:46 (three years ago)

Do people know that this is straight up Mardi Gras Indian music on wax? I don't mean that condescendingly, I'm asking because I've heard (and love) so much of it in New Orleans, but I wonder if people generally view the Dixie Cups in isolation or not. And that's not to take anything away from them, on the contrary.

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 January 2022 22:03 (three years ago)

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