I need help finding this old song, please help!?

Question

I'm pretty sure this is an old, maybe from 60s, 70s or somthing. i heard it a few years on the radio, and my mom and dad said they used to listen to that song all the time. its somthing about this guy and this girl who are driving and a deer jumps in the way, and he "swirves to the right" and his girl friend died, and he says something about his baby getting taken away. thanks all if you know this song!

Answer 1

I think you are trying to find "Last Kiss" but it was a stalled car not a deer in the road

Last Kiss
Written by Wayne Cochran in 1962
Best known version done by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
Hit # 2 on the Top 40 charts in 1964
Remade in 1974 by Wednesday, it only made it to # 18
Remade again in 1999 by Pearl Jam

Here's the story behind the song:
Sixteen-year-old Jeanette Clark was out on a date in Barnesville, Georgia on December 22, 1962, the Saturday before Christmas. She was with a group of friends in a '54 Chevrolet. J. L. Hancock, also sixteen, was driving the car in heavy traffic and while traveling on Highway 341, collided with a trailer truck. Jeanette, the driver and another teenager were killed, and two other teens in the car were seriously injured. Most had been students at Gordon Military College. It was a terribly gory accident and provoked an intense reaction in Barnesville.
Living about fifteen miles away in an old shack for which he was paying $20 a month rent was Wayne Cochran, a white R&B singer and composer. Wayne saw accident after accident on the busy stretch of highway on which he lived. He had written a song about all the accidents and left it unfinished, until he heard about the tragedy in Barnesville. He completed the song and dedicated it to the memory of Jeanette Clark. He called it "Last Kiss".

Wayne sang the song locally, and when people liked it, he recorded it for the small Gala Records label. It caught on in Georgia, and Wayne tried to promote sales of the record the only way he knew how. He loaded a bunch of 45's in the trunk of his car and went around selling them. It was not very effective. He later recorded the song for another record label, but the owner wouldn't promote it.

A recording executive in Fort Worth, Texas, Major Bill Smith (who had produced Bruce Channel's Hey! Baby and Paul and Paula's Hey Paula) heard it and liked the song. Major Bill Smith had a group in Fort Worth who were with his Josie label. This group, called the Cavaliers, had formed in San Angelo, Texas and consisted of Phil Trunzo, Bobby Woods, Jerry Graham, and George Croyle. Major Bill paired them with a twenty-two-year-old singer from Lufkin, Texas named John Frank Wilson. The record was released as Last Kiss, by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, on the Josie label. It entered the charts in September, 1964 and was a huge success, reaching #2 on the Billboard Top 40 charts.

J. Frank Wilson was born in 1941 in Lufkin, Texas and had worked as a hospital orderly. He was in a terrible automobile accident himself in Ohio some time after Last Kiss became a hit. Wilson died in Lufkin in 1991.

Major Bill Smith also died in the 90's.

Wayne Cochran, who performed on Jackie Gleason's television show in Miami in the 60's, is now a preacher.


Here are the lyrics to the song:
Oh where, oh where can my baby be,
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date, in my daddy's car,
We hadn't driven very far,
There in the road, straight up ahead,
A car was stalled, the engine was dead.

I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right,
I'll never forget the sound that night.
The screamin' tires, the bustin' glass,
The painful scream that I heard last...

Chorus

When I woke up, the rain was pouring down,
There were people standin' all around.
Something warm going through my eyes,
But somehow I found my baby that night.

I lifted her head, she looked at me and said
"Hold me darlin' just a little while."
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss,
I found the love that I knew I had missed.

Well now she's gone, even though I hold her tight,
I lost my love, my life that night.

Chorus

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh...

Answer 2

Tell Laura I love her by Ray Peterson, one of many 'death' songs to come out in the late 50s early 60s. Others were Leader of the Pack, Dead Man's Curve, and so on. Go on music web sites like Yahoo Music Engine, do searches for genres, titles, artists, albums, etc.

Answer 3

Tell Laura I love her, is one.
"Where oh where can my baby be", the lord took her away from me. Is another sorry I don't remember the artist.

Answer 4

I think the song is Last Kiss.

Answer 5

I;m thinkin' piano man,I', thinkin'....I'm gonna keep thinkin' and I'll let you know...it's on the tip of my tongue!!!