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		<title>The Strangest Secret In The World</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s A Special Recording! Below is a special audio recording from 1956.  Not only is it unique in that it sold over a million copies back then, but the message is still true today.  Since we are all starting a New Year this week, I thought these words might inspire you. Earl Nightingale  was the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Below is a special audio recording from 1956.  Not only is it unique in that it sold over a million copies back then, but the message is still true today.  Since we are all starting a New Year this week, I thought these words might inspire you.</p>
<p>Earl Nightingale  was the voice in the early 1950s of <em>Sky King</em>, the hero of a radio adventure series, and was also a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956.</p>
<p>When Nightingale was seventeen he joined the United States Marines. He was on the USS <em>Arizona</em> during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of twelve surviving Marines on board that day. Before being mustered, Nightingale was an instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.</p>
<p>After the war Nightingale began work in the radio industry, which  eventually led to work as a motivational speaker. In 1956 he produced a spoken word record, <em>The Strangest Secret</em>, which sold over a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status.</p>
<p>Below is that 1956 recording.  If you cannot see the player below, just click the title above</p>
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