Actually, Betty Jack Davis, who was killed in the car wreck with Skeeter was not related to her, even though they performed as The Davis Sisters". It was more confusing because after the accident, Betty Jack's sister Georgia worked with Skeeter. The accident was in 1953, and by 1963, Skeeter had gone on her own and had a string of hits, so the accident was long in the past.

I'd always thought that the song was about a broken romance, but it turns out that Sylvia Dee was thinking about the death of her father when she wrote it. it is one of the saddest songs ever.