On New Year’s Eve 1952, His Majesty gave a blessing to the nation in a song that he had personnally composed with the assistance of H.H. Prince Chakrabandh Pensiri. His Majesty talking about the story behind the composition – “Porn Pee Mai” during the audience granted to the Organizing Committee on February 22, 1999 at the Dusidalai Hall said;

“People think that ‘Porn Pee Mai’ was composed on or shortly before New Year’s Day, but in fact it was composed one or two years before it was actually published. I was living abroad at the time, having had an accident, and been forbidden by the doctor to play the saxophone. Anyway, Prince Chakrabandh was staying with me, so I asked him to blow the saxophone, but he did not know how to place the fingers for the notes. So as he blew, I placed my fingers on the keys. In this way he finally managed to learn to play this instrument. After I had been given permission by the doctor to play the saxophone again, we started to play together and compose a melody. One played the melody and the other accompained, talking it in turns, and writing down the score as we went along. In this way we ended up with a completed score.

His Majesty went on to say: “When it came to the year end, I though we could use the melody for the New Year greeting. We adjusted and altered the score a little to improve it, I then passed it to the Public Relations Department Band to perform on New Year’s Day of that year. Due to circumstances it was composed very awkwardly.”

The composition was first performed over His Majesty’s Aw.Saw.Radio Station, and from then on became extremely popular. It is still widely used today as the New Year Celebration’s theme song.