The Dixie Cups

Dixie Cups, Red Bird, Pye, Dr. John, Wild Tchopitulas, James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford

Listen: ko Iko / The Dixie Cups
ko Iko / The Dixie Cups

This used to sneak on to my local Top 40 station every once in a while, but not near enough. Although appearing to be a mid-chart hit (it struggled to #20 in ’65), the song has proven seminal. Repeated film, TV and commercial uses turned this percussion (bottles and screw drivers apparently) strut and chant into a multi platinum seller, now straddling four decades.

The Dixie Cups brought a lot of colorful shaking to this year’s Rhythm & Blues Foundation event. You couldn’t mistake them as they made their entrance, looking every bit as exotic as that first time on AMERICAN BANDSTAND running through ‘Iko Iko’.

Even their website sparkles like no other.

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