Edited sentence: Although Nora's first singles were not major hits, she smashed all record sales with her series of hits which included "It's Time to Say Goodbye", "Silently", "Forever Loving You", "It's Not Unusual", and countless others.At the height of her popularity as a recording artist in the late 1960s and early 1970s, local records soared up to 75% of national sales according to Alpha Records Philippines.In 1968, a little brown girl with a golden voice named Nora Aunor was contracted by Alpha Records upon the recommendation of singer Carmen Soriano.In her seven years with Alpha Records, she was able to set all-time high record sales which up to this day has not been surpassed.Nora has also recorded some 46 hit long-playing albums, and several extended plays.Over-all she has recorded more than 500 songs.She has notched more than 30 gold singles, a record in the local music industry.She is the artist with the most singles in Philippine recording history (with more than 260 singles).This marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Local Recording.With estimated sales of one million units, Nora's cover of "Pearly Shells" (1971) is one of the biggest-selling singles in the Philippines ever