The words – originally "hush-a-bye baby," not "rock-a-bye" – first appeared in writing in Mother Goose's Melody, a ...

Back in the swinging sixties, a funk revolution was inspired in the unlikeliest of ways by the sonic sampling of a peculiar nursery rhyme on one song.

May 1 is Mother Goose Day. Most people don’t know that the legendary author of nursery rhymes and fairy tales has a day dedicated to her. It’s not the type of day when people exchange ...