[1] The title which literally translates as the frangipani of Battambang refers to a flower commonly seen in this city of Cambodia.
In 1965, Sin Sisamouth's song "Champa Battambang" was the first content played on Khmer Republic Television as part of his Album Chlangden Vol.
It rapidly became a classic, as Khmer Rouge Khieu Samphan remembers his Communist friend Hou Yuon singing it with a certain nostalgia before his death in 1975.
[3] For the Khmer musicians who managed to escape the ruthless persecution of the Khmers Rouges who forbade any foreign influence and almost every form of music apart from propaganda, the refugee camps in Thailand were a safe haven where listening to "Champa Battambang" or the Khmer version of The House of the Rising Sun and others pieces of Cambodian rock music was a certain consolation in their desolation: "Khaodang was a dream encoded in music.
"[7] តាំងពីខ្លួនខ្ញុំបានឃ្លាតទៅឆ្ងាយ ខ្វល់ខ្វាយនឹកស្តាយ ពុំមានពេលល្ហែ ។ I struggle so hard to say goodbye Since I have parted away, I worry with regrets and can never fin sleep.