Label Guide: HiFi

HiFi Records was part of the High Fidelity Recording Company group of labels, that also included Arvee Records, Life (HiFi), Orbit and Tri-Disc. The company was founded in 1956 in Hollywood, California, by Richard Vaughn.

The HiFi Records Label was founded in 1956, and most of the label's output was easy listening jazz and Hawaiian music. The most popular acts on Arvee were George Wright and Arthur Lyman. Although we have made a separate label guide for Life (HiFi), the "Life Series" was neither its own label nor a HiFi Records subsidiary, but just a different series of releases that even survived the sale of the company in the mid 1960s. Another series was HiFi Jazz with its own label design.

The label group, incl. Arvee and HiFi, was sold to Everest in 1964 or 1965. We believe the last album on HiFi was released in 1966, while the Life series lasted until the end of that decade.