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.

When Mother Goose is kidnapped, her son, Gordon, teams up with Little Bo Peep to search for her. When they realize that she has been taken into the "Real World", the characters in her rhymes start ...

Its lasting popularity is partly due to its inclusion in Mother Goose’s Melody; or Sonnets for the Cradle, an influential ...