The legend began almost immediately after Dean’s fatal collision on the way to a Salinas sports-car race.
The car that carried James Dean to his death on September 30, 1955, a customized Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed “Little Bastard,” became the center of a mythology so enduring that it often overshadows the facts of the accident itself. The legend began almost immediately after Dean’s fatal collision on the way to a Salinas sports-car race,
Tinker, Tailor is a counting game (simple method of randomly selecting a person from a group like Eeny, meeny, miny, moe), nursery rhyme (late 18th/early 19th century poems or songs like the Mother Goose Rhymes) and fortune telling song (practice of predicting information about a persons life) traditionally played in England. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 802 (database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world).
