Ag Pleez Deddy

"Ag Pleez Deddy"
Single by Jeremy Taylor
B-side"Jo'burg Talking Blues"
Released1962
GenreFolk, children's
LabelGallotone 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.

  1. ^ "Folk Song a hit in South Africa". New York Times. July 22, 1962.
  2. ^ Taylor, Jeremy (1992). Ag Pleez Deddy!, Songs and Reflections. Pretoria, SA: Jeremy Taylor Publishing.
  3. ^ Heywood, Christopher (2004). A History of South African Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780521554855.