The song you are thinking of is "Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning. Debut: 12/21/59+ Peak: #1 Weeks: 18 Source: JW's top Pop Singles 1955-2002 Billboard
You must be suffrin' from the "Dead-Teenager-got-the-lyrics-mixed-up with-the-wrong-song-title" addled brain syndrome from a'listen' to those morbid songs when you wuz a'growin up. That happened to me also.
In "The Last Kiss" the dumb jerk could'nt drive, had slow response times and killed his date. Heck, he probably was not going steady with her and she therefore did not have a ring anyway to be included in the lyrics:
There in the road, straight ahead ...
The car was stalled, the engine was dead.
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right.
Never forget the sound that night ...
The cryin' tires, the bustin' glass.
The painful scream that I heard last
Last Kiss J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers Debut: 9/5/64 Peak: #2 Weeks: 15 Same source as above.
J. Frank died at age 49...wonder if it was in a car wreck?