Jeremy Taylor: "Ag Pleez Deddy"

Jeremy's South African hit song which outsold any Elvis single. Here's the story on how it came to be. Want more information? Buy this CD at http://www.JeremyTaylorMusic.com .

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Music

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• Jeremy-Taylor
• South-Africa
• folk
• children

[rlukeball]

Your comment is well taken. But this colorful word doesn't carry its intended meaning everywhere. Jeremy substituted a neutral word for "niggerballs" during the London run of his show "Wait a Minim" more than 40 years ago. So there is precedence. In the US, where we recorded this APD, it would have been impossible for general audiences to properly hear the charm of the song if that red-herring phrase had popped out in every chorus. Alas this was not posted solely in South Africa. --RLB

[shiteetah]

Wow. That's what it's come to. Jeremy had to censor his own song. The candy wasn't called "Sugar Balls", they were called "Nigger Balls" and as a kid it or an adult it never crossed my mind that those lyrics were racist or even mildly racially insensitive. Anyone who knew anything about JT knew he was no fan of the Apartheid system.

[snowleopard61]

Wonderful! Haven't heard this for years and years. Just a pity he didn't sing the whole song - 'Ag pleez Deddy, won't you take us down to Durban, it's only seven hours in the Chevrolet ...' - can't remember the rest!).

[TiffEatsCookies]

This is my English Teacher's dad . :33

[RHODESIA111]

@shiteetah - Bro - very well said !! here in the U.K, can't say this, can't say that - really p**sses me off - you call a spade a spade - whoops !! you can't even say that here these days because a spade used to refer to black people. Conversley though, you can still use the term "whitewash" - what hypsocisy !!

[lucky0045]

Hi, I'd be really, really eternally grateful if you could tell me which show this clip is from? What city/venue/year was it? Is there a DVD of it? It's for a paper, and I really need to source this info (which is massively helpful to me! Thank you!)

[rosaliecross1]

Here it is!!

[MegaBravo19]

I love it because its ours.!!! Voetsak also means FUCK OFF.............LOL

[MegaBravo19]

I love it because its ours.!!!

[itekwenidurban]

please take this off as nigger balls was in the original song  and it is not racial the same as golly wog is not as well but it is only offensive to the goody two shoes of the world

[jobbyowaj]

Ag pleez deddy won't you take us down to Durban

it's only eight hours in the Chevrolet

there's spans of sea and sand and sun

and fish in the aquarium

it's a lekker place for a holiday

[elesbe]

...there's lots of sand and sea and sun and fish in the aquarium