"Ag Pleez Deddy" | |
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Single by Jeremy Taylor | |
B-side | "Jo'burg Talking Blues" |
Released | 1962 |
Genre | Folk, children's |
Label | Gallotone PD 7-8531 |
Songwriter(s) | Jeremy Taylor |
"Ag Pleez Deddy" (also known as "The Ballad of the Southern Suburbs") is a South African song written and recorded by Jeremy Taylor, and released in 1962.[1][2] It was written for the stage show Wait a Minim!, and has been described as the musical's "showpiece".[3] It provides a light-hearted insight into the lives of young white working-class South Africans, whose outlook has absorbed both English-language and Afrikaans influences, along with a fascination with consumer culture. On the surface a children's song, it became broadly popular.