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What was the best vintage LP you have ever found and why was it so?

I am a prolific vinyl collector.  I think that I have almost every album that I ever purchased but I often wondered what happened to an album I used to play a lot in grade school.. 
Some of mt records are collectible.  However, one of my very best memories (not just LP related!)
was when a friend visited me from out of town.  It was snowing and most shops downtown had closed.
We found a thrift store and as I thumbed through a box of albums they had sitting on the floor, I spied
a treasure from my childhood.  It was an old Christmas album that I played over and over in 6th grade.  
When I saw the album cover I couldn't believe it.  I had forgotten the name of the record, but I instantly recognized the cover.  It was in excellent condition and I think I paid something like fifty cents for it.  I play it a lot at Christmas, and even pull it out and play it a few times during the year.  Music therapy!
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Not weird is an 1980's box set of Fred Astaire recordings by The Easton Press (mono).

Weird:

-1950's educational LP of jump rope rhymes recorded in NYC

-a 1960's set (6) of "official" figure skating music LP's.

If I listen to the figure skating LP's during a heat wave the temperature in the listening room seems to drop 15-20 degrees.

Looked for other recordings of jump rope rhymes, but struck out.
  
Thought about contacting Jonathan Demme to see if he had any interest in doing a documentary on such, but never got around to it (too late now).

DeKay 
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