[4] Wilson joined the Cavaliers after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas, in 1962.
[5] In October 1964, the British music magazine NME reported that Wilson had himself been involved in an auto accident near Lima, Ohio, in which his 27-year-old record producer, Sonley Roush, was killed, and Wilson was seriously injured.
[6] While J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers recorded many more songs,[7] and "Last Kiss" was subsequently covered successfully by Wednesday and Pearl Jam, the band charted with only one other song, "Hey, Little One", which reached number 85.
He started working offshore oilfield in late 1970s and 1980s in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wilson died on October 4, 1991, at the age of 49, from alcoholism and complications from diabetes.