The Cavendish Series

[Mr]

British label under Cavendish Music Co. Ltd, based at Regent Street, London.

CAV 1 - Cavendish Series 1 - The Skymasters/New Dance Orchestra/Ray Davies Orchestra (1967)
CAV 2 - Cavendish Series 2 - The Cavendish Ten (1972)
CAV 3 -
CAV 4 - Cavendish Series 4 - The Cavendish Nine (1972)
CAV 5 - Cavendish Series 5 - The Cavendish Six/The Cavendish Big Band/The Cavendish Eleven (1970)
CAV 5 - Cavendish Series 5 - The Cavendish Congregation (1972)
CAV 6 - Cavendish Series 6 - Vincent Vermeer Orchestra (1972)
CAV 7 - Cavendish Series 7 - James Janson Orchestra (1972)
CAV 8 - Cavendish Series 8 - First Collaboration (1972)
CAV 9 - Cavendish Series 9 - The Gentle Giants (1973)
CAV 10 - Cavendish Series 10 - The Cavendish Chorale

Composers:

CAV 1 - Brian Fahey/Malcolm Lockyer/Kenny Powell/Norman Gledhill/Don Lusher/Gus Stephens (Steve Allen)/Laurie Holloway/Rimsky-Korsakov (no arr.)/Armstrong Gibbs (no arr.)/Ray Davies/D. Ellington (no arr.)/Eddie Strevens/Johnny Arthey
CAV 2 - Syd Dale/Ray Davies/Kenny Powell/Pat Dodd/Paddy Roberts/Mark Paul (Robin Scutt)/Pierre Dudan/Bill Hutchinson/Ernest Ponticelli/Jack Strachey/Malcolm Lockyer/Gus Stephens (Steve Allen)/Neil Richardson/Eddie Strevens
CAV 3 -
CAV 4 - Ray Davies/Gordon Reed/Syd Dale/Clarrie Sampson/Stan Foster/Eric Winstone/Geoff Alderson/Vivian Ellis
CAV 5 - Don Lusher/Harry Stoneham/Gordon Reed/Bernard Wells/Ray Davies/Malcolm Lockyer/Stan Foster/Max Harris/Syd Dale
CAV 5 - Don Lusher/Harry Stoneham/Gordon Reed/Bernard Wells/Ray Davies/Malcolm Lockyer/Stan Foster/Max Harris/Syd Dale
CAV 6 - Alan Hawkshaw/Bill McGuffie/Colin Rickards/Dominic Sands (Royston Darlow)/Geoff Love/Gus Stephens (Steve Allen)/Albert Hall (Andrew Hall)/Lars Carlsson/Malcolm Lockyer
CAV 7 - Ray Davies/Les Condon/Colin Rickards/Dominic Sands (Royston Darlow)/Malcolm Lockyer/Pete Winslow/Jack Seymour/Gus Stephens (Steve Allen)
CAV 8 - Ray Davies/Colin Rickards/Dominic Sands (Royston Darlow)/Steve Gray/Ian Hamer/Vic Flick/Bill Geldard/Alan Hawkshaw
CAV 9 - Ray Davies/Waldir Azevedo/Edgar Sampson/Irving Mills/Kenneth Alford (Frederick Ricketts)/Will Hudson/Edgar De Lange/Jack Strachey/Erskinne Hawkins/William Johnson/Julian Dash/Robert Haggart/Ray Buduc/Rube Bloom/Johnny Mercer/Mitchell Parish/Gordon Reed/Harold Arlen/Ted Köhler/Alec Wilder/Earle Warren/Spud Murphy
CAV 10 - Dominic Sands (Royston Darlow)/Colin Rickards/Pete Durrent/Pam Jackson/Ray Davies/Rhett Davies/Sheila Roberts/Wally Napper/Derrick G. Waugh

[Lord Thames]

Just regarding CAV 2, I think the 1972 date applies to the stereo reissue only, and there was a mono version issued previously.  I know of mono versions of CAV 1 and 3 with different sleeves which aren't as common as the red sleeve stereo versions.  The tracks on CAV 2 were recorded in Cologne in 1968.

I've often wondered if the Ray Davies Orchestra's Benny And The Duke LP on Pye was meant to be a Cavendish Series LP that fell through.  All the tracks are published by Lafleur or Cavendish, and Pye had already put out their own version of CAV 9, plus I remember Ray Davies saying in an interview the LP had never come out and he was looking for a copy.  Perhaps he was referring to a planned Cavendish version?

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