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The Dixie Cups

Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

The Dixie Cups is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Sun Records, Ellie Greenwich, Grandpa Elliott and Hot 8 Brass Band. Those roots explain a lot about how The Dixie Cups arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Chiffons, Jackie DeShannon, The Exciters, Betty Everett and Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Lorna Bennett and Justin Wellington, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around The Dixie Cups, reaching back through Sun Records and forward to Lorna Bennett. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
The Dixie CupsSun RecordsEllie GreenwichGrandpa ElliottHot 8 Brass BandLorna BennettJustin WellingtonThe ChiffonsJackie DeShannonThe ExcitersBetty EverettFrankie Valli & the …The ArchiesNeil SedakaHerman's Hermits

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The Dixie Cups connections

The Dixie Cups grew out of Sun Records, Ellie Greenwich, Grandpa Elliott and Hot 8 Brass Band, shares an orbit with The Chiffons, Jackie DeShannon, The Exciters and Betty Everett, went on to shape Lorna Bennett and Justin Wellington. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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