Most of the 1,000 or so American and British nursery rhymes that have come down through history are playful and silly nonsense, “Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,/Upstairs and downstairs in his ...

LONDON, March 2 (UPI) -- A British historian claims traditional British nursery rhymes contain adult-themes and sexual references in his new book about the verses' origins. Chris Roberts, a social ...

"They’re really lovely songs, a lot of them. I just haven’t heard them in a lovely way before." When singer-songwriter Ollie Thomas started teaching early years children, he was disappointed at the ...

Rub-A-Dub-Dub was a British nursery rhyme TV series animated by Peter Lang and Alan Rogers of the Cut-Out Animation Co. They were previously famous for Pigeon Street. The series was produced by David ...

Beyond Clean Bandit's "Rockabye," more acts that have borrowed from nursery rhymes for pop hits. By Gary Trust Submit questions about Billboard charts, as well as general music musings, to ...

There is a reason that nursery rhymes and lullabies have existed and subsisted for decades or even hundreds of years. Their classic messages, catchy lyrics, and indelible characters bring joy to our ...

We grow up with these songs – these lyrical and melodic earworms, that continue to be passed down the generations. Here are 10 of the all-time best nursery rhymes. We may not immediately think of them ...