Cavendish Archive series (Lossless)

[BlackwatchPlaid]

Launched in the late 60s as a series of Boosey & Hawkes production music LPs, Cavendish became a fully fledged library label when Boosey switched to CDs in 1987. It later became an imprint of Imagem Production Music (BooseyPM's new name as of September 2010), alongside Abaco Music Library, Strip Sounds, PPM and the Boosey & Hawkes Classical Library.





The first handful of Cavendish Archive albums are remastered versions of older Boosey & Hawkes albums.

SBH 2997 = CAVA 01
SBH 3043 = CAVA 02 & 03
SBH 3049 = CAVA 04
SBH 3063 = CAVA 05 & 06
SBH 3074 = CAVA 07 & 08

The rest seem to be compilations from older Cavendish and Boosey & Hawkes releases.


Fun fact: On CAVA 10 - Fromage a la Funk: Fromage, track 4 is the theme music to a very well-known internet meme from youtube.  If you've been paying attention to youtube in the last decade, you're probably quite familiar with this tune.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko


Most of these are not on discogs and they came completely untagged.  Rather than spend the next week pulling my hair out tagging these track by track, I gave them some basic tags like track names, album names, track numbers, but the artist and albumartist fields are empty.  Those that are on discogs (a few are re-re-issued CDs) were tagged properly.

Look here for artist information and listen to streaming tracks:

search.cavendishmusic.com/repertoire/Cavendish%20Archive%20-%20CAVA

All albums are 24bit/48kHz FLAC.  Some albums are split archives because they are >500MB, zippy's max size.  Get both (or 3) parts and extract from part 1.



CAVA 01 - Drama (1965-1967)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/cXXY3Vbl/file.html

CAVA 02 - Ad Tracks (1973)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/pP8kzUNH/file.html

CAVA 03 - Six Episodes (1973)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/30dOn35U/file.html

CAVA 04 - 70s Cool 1 (1973)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/vihAHJXw/file.html

CAVA 05 - Common Theme for Industry (1975)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/XPqcdsPU/file.html

CAVA 06 - 70s Cool 2 (1975)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/ho9vZmQU/file.html

CAVA 07 - Soundtrack Grooves (1979)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/0tLKRrKp/file.html

CAVA 08 - Evolution (1979)
www33.zippyshare.com/v/RtYpsGMy/file.html

CAVA 09 - 60s & 70s Cheese.part1
www33.zippyshare.com/v/Iz6unB2f/file.html

CAVA 09 - 60s & 70s Cheese.part2
www33.zippyshare.com/v/e7UQL7bv/file.html

CAVA 10 - Fromage a la Funk - Fromage.part1
www33.zippyshare.com/v/SRcTXQ0Z/file.html

CAVA 10 - Fromage a la Funk - Fromage.part2
www33.zippyshare.com/v/xvgf82bG/file.html

CAVA 11 - Fromage a la Funk - Funk.part1
www33.zippyshare.com/v/tzJTZZFG/file.html

CAVA 11 - Fromage a la Funk - Funk.part2
www33.zippyshare.com/v/ue8EW2gf/file.html

CAVA 12 - A Cosy Christmas.part1
www33.zippyshare.com/v/nycSYYhn/file.html

CAVA 12 - A Cosy Christmas.part2
www33.zippyshare.com/v/B32YwiCX/file.html

CAVA 12 - A Cosy Christmas.part3
www33.zippyshare.com/v/iWBSTqeF/file.html

CAVA 13 - SOHO Hipsters (1969-1977).part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/55XOag8A/file.html

CAVA 13 - SOHO Hipsters (1969-1977).part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/rmVLKsmW/file.html

CAVA 14 - Final Frontiers (1954-1966).part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/BaFhQnCA/file.html

CAVA 14 - Final Frontiers (1954-1966).part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/dOcEl6Pw/file.html

CAVA 15 - 1930s Orchestra, Vol. 1.part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/LSzsnvuu/file.html

CAVA 15 - 1930s Orchestra, Vol. 1.part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/8XI35TTe/file.html

CAVA 16 - 1930s Orchestra, Vol. 2.part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/48s62Dhg/file.html

CAVA 16 - 1930s Orchestra, Vol. 2.part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/SscsxUbV/file.html

CAVA 17 - 1930s Orchestra, Vol. 3.part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/yWSeyBLn/file.html

CAVA 17 - 1930s Orchestra, Vol. 3.part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/Gjb4pwII/file.html

CAVA 18 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 1.part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/J1v8uwWh/file.html

CAVA 18 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 1.part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/Zeqd09Yg/file.html

CAVA 19 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 2.part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/iIiUr08H/file.html

CAVA 19 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 2.part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/GuyslnXH/file.html

CAVA 20 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 3.part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/Q8QsAMrq/file.html

CAVA 20 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 3.part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/UvkeJBR6/file.html

CAVA 21 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 4.part1
www68.zippyshare.com/v/WfD4VTpt/file.html

CAVA 21 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 4.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/gtenwo7j/file.html

CAVA 22 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 5.part1
www104.zippyshare.com/v/SO3WHCgh/file.html

CAVA 22 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 5.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/B264R1Ta/file.html

CAVA 23 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 6.part1
www104.zippyshare.com/v/sPe7eCip/file.html

CAVA 23 - 1940s Orchestra, Vol. 6.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/f7Jj4zwz/file.html

CAVA 24 - 1940s Military.part1
www104.zippyshare.com/v/5xhBpAPT/file.html

CAVA 24 - 1940s Military.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/fOgPOOp9/file.html

CAVA 25 - Orchestral Songs (1946-1947)
www104.zippyshare.com/v/urkWWSbg/file.html

CAVA 26 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 1.part1
www104.zippyshare.com/v/mrNdxjck/file.html

CAVA 26 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 1.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/qJHcFPNK/file.html

CAVA 27 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 2.part1
www104.zippyshare.com/v/aAhlJ5bw/file.html

CAVA 27 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 2.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/i2te1IwZ/file.html

CAVA 28 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 3.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/mcaYkYyS/file.html

CAVA 28 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 3.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/R4tkovb4/file.html

CAVA 29 - Archive Remixed- Lifestyle & Lounge.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/a0udrHxm/file.html

CAVA 29 - Archive Remixed- Lifestyle & Lounge.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/ozAU2gtt/file.html

CAVA 30 - Archive Remixed- Positive & Uplifting.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/VdwX5kkX/file.html

CAVA 30 - Archive Remixed- Positive & Uplifting.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/DYmVEDaX/file.html

CAVA 31 - Archive Remixed- Eclectic & Quirky.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/hWzD1v0j/file.html

CAVA 31 - Archive Remixed- Eclectic & Quirky.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/fI5bhqaA/file.html

CAVA 32 - Archive Remixed- Who Sampled Edition
www36.zippyshare.com/v/jpELFOqm/file.html

CAVA 33 - Archive Remixed- Soundsci Edition.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/fMZrVilN/file.html

CAVA 33 - Archive Remixed- Soundsci Edition.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/681ggQeJ/file.html

[bongo_rock]

Hahahahaha!

That "Will it blend?" video really cracked me up. 

Thanks for the post, BlackWatch!

[stackjackson]

The first handful of Cavendish Archive albums are remastered versions of older Boosey & Hawkes albums.

SBH 2997 = CAVA 01
SBH 3043 = CAVA 02 & 03
SBH 3049 = CAVA 04
SBH 3063 = CAVA 05 & 06
SBH 3074 = CAVA 07 & 08

The rest seem to be compilations from older Cavendish and Boosey & Hawkes releases.

This is good info to have. Thanks, BWP.

[Flemming]

Excellent, thank you very much BlackwatchPlaid! 

[Dick Turpin]

There a few wrong tracks on CAVA 11 when compared to CAVCD 92B

compare them here:

search.cavendishmusic.com/track/CAVA0011

and

search.cavendishmusic.com/track/CAVC1092

Someone screwed up at Cavendish there on CAVA0011 as 1092 is correct I believe. Sam Fonteyn - High Voltage is in fact just a repeat of Trevor Duncan - You Were Right I Was,  total bloody shambles.

However Blackwatch the last track on your posting of CAVA 0011 appears to be wrong, as Extra Energy should be a 28s track as this matches on both the references
above, I don't recognise the track you have in it's place, perhaps someone could enlighten me ?

Thanks for the posts

[stackjackson]

However Blackwatch the last track on your posting of CAVA 0011 appears to be wrong, as Extra Energy should be a 28s track as this matches on both the references
above, I don't recognise the track you have in it's place, perhaps someone could enlighten me ?

"Extra Energy" and a few others here should be added to Boosey & Hawkes SBH 3049 (CAVA 04). However, versions of Windrush, Pensativo, Smile Of A Stranger, and Evensong on the CD version are without the wordless vocals

[BlackwatchPlaid]

However Blackwatch the last track on your posting of CAVA 0011 appears to be wrong, as Extra Energy should be a 28s track as this matches on both the references
above, I don't recognise the track you have in it's place, perhaps someone could enlighten me ?

That's the track that comes down when I click the WAV button.

CAVENDISH_CAVA001126_EXTRA_ENERGY.wav

Mediainfo:

Format                                   : Wave
File size                                : 47.6 MiB
Duration                                 : 2 min 52 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 2 310 kb/s
Description                              : EXTRA ENERGY | Emrys-Roberts, Kenyon (PRS)| Cavendish Music |Fun and melodic. Upbeat and very cheesy. 70's trumpets jingle. / 60s Dance Music, MOR, Lighthearted, 60s Pop, Energetic, Optimistic, 60s Film, 60s TV, Promos/Trailers, Brass (featured), | Lounge
Encoded date                             : 2007-04-18 14:58:18

Go ahead and click play on that track on their site also.  The track that plays is a 3 minute track, not a 28 second track.  They either have mistyped the track length or have mislabeled the file on their server. 

I'm gonna chalk this one up to either incompetence or stupidity.  I made a post on the last LMT site about some problems I found with these company distributors and some of the responses I got back from others with studio access was that this is something to be expected.  They have young IT professionals and college grads working for them that don't know the back catalog and don't know how audio fidelity and compression work.  The entire JW archive on Tele Music's servers are .wavs decompressed from 128kbps mp3 files, for example.  In trying to make sense of the tagging on the Focus catalog, I found numerous typos, people's names misspelled, album names misspelled, stuff like that.  As far as the Cavendish stuff goes, it seems to me that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.  Not to mention the choice in bit depth.  These albums are originating on CDs.  I don't know if they have the master recordings back there and are working from those, but 24bit seems a bit much for CDs.  Although it isn't padding, wavelab's bitmeter does show all 24bits are being put to use, so this is probably unfounded on my part.

I don't have any solid answers for you, I wish I had a better understanding of the back catalog myself.  I'm still fairly new to this scene.  I know that's no answer, but in 6 months time it seems I have attempted to cover the same ground many of you have taken a decade or more to research.

[Dick Turpin]

Go ahead and click play on that track on their site also.  The track that plays is a 3 minute track, not a 28 second track.  They either have mistyped the track length or have mislabeled the file on their server. 

Oh yes so it does, I only looked at the track length on CAVA 0011, it's correct on 1092 though.

Cheers

[Lord Thames]

"Extra Energy" and a few others here should be added to Boosey & Hawkes SBH 3049 (CAVA 04). However, versions of Windrush, Pensativo, Smile Of A Stranger, and Evensong on the CD version are without the wordless vocals

It's quite interesting to hear these alternative versions, though I miss the singer - I wonder where she's gone, and whether B&H still have the tapes of the version with her overdubs?  It's probably my favourite B&H, this one.

[Muff Diver]

Thanks for another massive upload, Blackwatch.

Thank you also to Dick Turpin, Lord Thames and Stack for the mini education in re the Boosey back catalog workings. It's a little out of my depth, but I've also been largely unexposed to the Boosey catalog aside from SBH.

Besides that, there's no pictures. Of naked people. How's a Neanderthal like me supposed to pay attention? 

[sippinjava]

Thanks for these classics. Would love to see re-ups of these titles, especially the "Cozy Christmas." THANKS!

CAVA 11 - Fromage a la Funk - Funk.part1
www33.zippyshare.com/v/tzJTZZFG/file.html

CAVA 11 - Fromage a la Funk - Funk.part2
www33.zippyshare.com/v/ue8EW2gf/file.html

CAVA 26 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 1.part1
www104.zippyshare.com/v/mrNdxjck/file.html

CAVA 26 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 1.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/qJHcFPNK/file.html

CAVA 27 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 2.part1
www104.zippyshare.com/v/aAhlJ5bw/file.html

CAVA 27 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 2.part2
www104.zippyshare.com/v/i2te1IwZ/file.html

CAVA 28 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 3.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/mcaYkYyS/file.html

CAVA 28 - 1950s Background Music, Vol. 3.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/R4tkovb4/file.html

CAVA 30 - Archive Remixed- Positive & Uplifting.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/VdwX5kkX/file.html

CAVA 30 - Archive Remixed- Positive & Uplifting.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/DYmVEDaX/file.html

CAVA 31 - Archive Remixed- Eclectic & Quirky.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/hWzD1v0j/file.html

CAVA 31 - Archive Remixed- Eclectic & Quirky.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/fI5bhqaA/file.html

CAVA 12 - A Cosy Christmas.part1
www33.zippyshare.com/v/nycSYYhn/file.html

CAVA 12 - A Cosy Christmas.part2
www33.zippyshare.com/v/B32YwiCX/file.html

CAVA 12 - A Cosy Christmas.part3
www33.zippyshare.com/v/iWBSTqeF/file.html

CAVA 14 - Final Frontiers (1954-1966).part1
www59.zippyshare.com/v/BaFhQnCA/file.html

CAVA 14 - Final Frontiers (1954-1966).part2
www59.zippyshare.com/v/dOcEl6Pw/file.html

CAVA 32 - Archive Remixed- Who Sampled Edition
www36.zippyshare.com/v/jpELFOqm/file.html

CAVA 33 - Archive Remixed- Soundsci Edition.part1
www36.zippyshare.com/v/fMZrVilN/file.html

CAVA 33 - Archive Remixed- Soundsci Edition.part2
www36.zippyshare.com/v/681ggQeJ/file.html

[Titoroski187]

Reup possible???  That's such a great list I'd hate to miss out on

[upkerry14]

I second that! Thanks.

[Zeenix]

Yes a re-up would be amazing! Thanks