Dead man's hand in popular culture Bob Seger. The lyric "Aces and eights are the fate that you drew" appears in the song "I Am the Storm" by Blue Öyster Cult on their album "Mirrors". In the song "Rambling, Gambling Willie" by Bob Dylan, the main character, Will O'Conley, is a successful poker player who loses his life to an angry opponent while holding the dead man's hand. The song contains the lyric, "When Willie’s cards fell on the floor, they were aces backed with eights." Townes van Zandt covers the song on the album "Roadsongs." The Lonely Heartstring Band covers the song on their album
Dead man's hand in popular culture episode in the short-lived U.S. radio drama series, "Frontier Gentleman." The story includes a fictionalized version of Wild Bill Hickok’s last card game as witnessed by J. B. Kendall, the London "Times" reporter who was the title character. In the story, Kendall is at the table, playing with Hickok and McCall. The story was presented twice during the 41-show run of the CBS series, using different actors (i.e., not a recorded rerun). The Dead man hand can be seen on an abandoned dust-covered table on the lobby of Walt Disney Studios Park's The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Dead Man's