The original Dixie Cups included sisters Rosa Lee Hawkins, top left, and Barbara Ann Hawkins, top right, plus their cousin Joan Marie Johnson, foreground. When "Chapel of Love" became a hit ...

if only for that time," her sister and bandmate Barbara Ann Hawkins said Rosa Lee Hawkins, a member of the '60s girl group The Dixie Cups, has died. She was 76. Her sister and bandmate Barbara Ann ...

The New Orleans girl group's "Chapel of Love" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 By Steve Knopper The Dixie Cups ... it went zoom,” Barbara Ann Hawkins, Rosa’s sister and a member ...

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 ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups has died of complications from ... which also featured Hawkins' older sister Barbara Ann and cousin Joan Marie Johnson. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins ... 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 older sister and fellow bandmate Barbara Hawkins ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Johnson and Barbara Ann Hawkins perform live as The Dixie Cups in 1965. CREDIT: Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Rosa Lee Hawkins of The Dixie Cups has died at ...

SIMON: Sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Lee Hawkins and their cousin, Joan Marie Johnson, were the young women who put "Chapel of Love" on the top of the charts in 1964. The Dixie Cups were performing ...

Barbara Ann Hawkins, who was also a member of the group. “Chapel of Love” was the debut single from the Dixie Cups, and replaced the Beatles “Love Me Do” as No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

She was 76. Rosa Lee Hawkins formed the Dixie Cups in high school with her sister Barbara Ann Hawkins and cousin Joan Marie Johnson. In the early 1960s, the trio was signed on the strength of a ...

said her sister Barbara Ann Hawkins, who was also a member of the group, along with Joan Marie Johnson, who died in 2016 at 72. The Dixie Cups epitomized the harmonizing sound of the 1960s girl group.