A collection of Sin Sisamouth's songs from the 60s in full stereo

Dear Readers of rongkhmer

For what they are worth, please allow me to share with you the following few songs by Mr. Sin Sisamouth. As far as I know, this collection of songs – which contains a few other songs also – is the only one that I know of that was recorded in full stereo in the 60s. Please bear with me also for the song titles as I no longer know their exact name. At one point in my life, I used to be very meticulous in writing down the song title, the singer, its genre, however, with time, I lost so many of them. This collection was passed down to me from a friend who recorded them from a record to cassette tapes and later on digitized to CD and MP3.

I noticed that there are some people who kept on asking who is “Grand Tonton P” (Grand uncle P) or “Grandfather P”. While I think the person(s) who raised these questions is(are) well intentioned, as a former Kaun Sess Lauk (a pagoda boy), I couldn’t help but remember all the innocent dirty jokes we used to pass around as young child. For example, we used to call one young monk barely older than us “Lok Ta P…” because, as a monk, he can order us anyway he wanted. So when I hear somebody calling me “Grandfather P”, it reminded me of “Lok Ta Pi” which, when twisted around in Khmer, could have a somewhat funny meaning. So to answer to this curious person, yes, I have been “carrying my derriere” all my life long with me, and that’s who I am.