On 15 February 1966, the first Zipps single is released on CNR's label Op-Art Sound '66 with the songs Roll the Cotton Down/Highway Gambler. The remarkable sleeve-photo is made by Ton de Zeeuw, the Dordrecht based journalist/photographer and in March 1966 the single enters the poll-charts. In April, the single holds the no. 35 position in the TOP 50 chart of ME Magazine.

The CNR/ME label is succesfull soon and contracts more Dutch beatbands under the name Muziek Expres HOT 5, being Peter and the Blizzards (ME 1005), The Outsiders (ME 1006), The Zipps (ME 1007), The Bintangs (ME 1008) and The Bumble Bees (ME 1009). Those singles are released one after the other and in the summer of 1966, the now legendary CNR LP album Outsiders or Insiders is released.

After the band's transfer from CNR to Iramac, the second single is released on October 7-1966 with the songs Kicks and Chicks/Hipsterism (Relax 45015), Both songs are composed by Peter Nuijten on the lyrics from Ben Katerberg, the Dordrecht based copywriter and poetry performer. The songs are typical for the beat generation of the time and the lyrics breath the atmosphere of the revolting dutch sixtees. The marketing and promotion of the Relax label is done by Iramac, a newly founded record company by Willem O'Duys in Bussum. Most of the recordings for the progressive label are produced by Job Maarse, a starting producer at Relax, like the Outsiders single Relax 45025 with the songs Monkey on your Back/What's wrong with You.

The Beat and Poetry EP is released on November 10-1966 (Relax 45019) as the result of a cooperation between the Zipps and poetry performers Ben Katerberg and Cees Boender. Almost every week they perform together in the historic building Het Dolhuys in the centre of Dordrecht. Het Dolhuys houses various culture clubs at the time where local youngsters and from the surrounding 'Drechtsteden' join together in the weekends to have fun and enjoy the Beat and Poetry happenings. Producer Job Maarse becomes a regular visitor and plans to record one of these happenings specially for the release of an Extended Play single. The recording of this EP is on October 5^th and is done before a live audience of Zipps fans in the Dolhuys location. Both the lyrics and the (improvised) music as well as the sleeve design, represent extremely well the time-spirit and is clearly one of the reasons for the big interest from collectors to find one rare vinyl single.

In January 1967, the record company plans a weekend tour for the band to Paris to promote the single Kicks and Chicks/Hipsterism. The single is released in France too, because of the French orientated lyrics of both songs (..as soon as I'm in Paris, I get my kicks...I spend all my time "Chez Popoff"). After the succesfull weekend, a second tour takes place to promote the fourth Zipps single Marie-Juana/The Struggle for Icecold Milk (Relax 45024) that is released on January 27, 1967. The single comes with a promotion sticker with the provocative slogan "Be Stoned! dig Zipps psychedelic sound" referring to the psychedelic image of the band. In an earlier stage the original lyrics of the songs caused already a delay, but after modifying the lyrics, the release of the single both in Holland and France is agreed.

The purple "Be stoned!" stickers are handed out during the Zipps concerts in large quantities with the band's request to stick them on every possible spot in the public domain, like streetlights, train seats, public toilets etc. The slogan means "dig the Zipps performances and get high of the psychedelic music". This promotion activity is found controversial by the media and soon results in the refusal of broadcasters to play the records on the public radiostations. Commercial radio did not exist yet and only the 'pirate station' Radio Veronica feels free to broadcast the Zipps incidentally.

At the end of 1966, record company Iramac contracts a young French popsinger Philippe Salerne who is to be produced by Job Maarse as well. Partly due to striking difficulties from french studiomusicians, the Zipps are requested to act as backing group for the singer and to record two songs for him in the Dutch GTB studio. The recording of the songs is done in December of 1966 and the first title "Avec de l'Italie" appears on the single Relax 45026 that is released by Iramac-France in January 1967. The second song is titled "Venez voir comme on s'aime" and appears on the next single Relax 45027 that is released a month later when the Zipps are promoting their music in Paris for the second time by a celebrative concert in the Palais d'Orsay.

In 1969 the single Selling Sounds (MG 113 431F) is produced and released by the Dutch Advertising Association on March 20 at their 29e Congress in The Hague. The A-side of the single contains the Zipps song When You tell it, tell it Well with lyrics from Marian de Garriga, a well known and succesfull jingles composer at the time The B-side contains a number of commercial jingles of her production company MG Jingles in arrangements from Bert Paige, the in-house arranger of record company Phonogram in Baarn. The single is pressed in a number of 3000 pcs and produced by Job Maarse. It has become a rare collectors item because of it's psychedelic Zipps song that is recorded in the GTB Studio on February 26. The record is for a long time the final appearance of the band that officially stopped performing in 1971.

On April 9-1988, over 20 years after its recording, the song Lotus Love is released in the original version as produced by Freddy Haayen on April 8-1967. The single is distributed by the Monkey Business label (I Go Ape 4501) for the opening of the international vinyl-records trade-exhibition in Amsterdam. A restricted number of 250 persons receive the single for free by being the first visitors of the exhibition. The single's second track contains the psychedelic Zipps song When You tell it, tell it Well as released earlier in the year 1969 and this makes the single a special one because of the different bandformations on both sides. On Lotus Love appears the formation with Philip Elzerman, Peter Nuijten, Theo Verschoor and John Santoro, and on When You tell it, tell it Well, the formation appears with Philip Elzerman, Dick Visschers, Ruud van Seventer and John Santoro. Only 500 singles are pressed for the occasion and hard to get today.

In the ninetees the awareness of dutch garage rock and the nederbeat era is starting to increase because of the internet communication between former fans and vinyl collectors. This interest makes dutch record distributor Double Dutch Record Service decide to launch his Pseudonym label specially dedicated for the Dutch Beat. Many legendary bands like Kayak, Living Blues, Cosmic Dealer and Q 65 are to be released and also The Zipps appear on the label. On this Pseudonym Sampler Vol.1 (CDP-1020-DD) that is released in limited edition in 1994 the Zipps are present with their song Marie Juana as originally released in 1967 as the A-side of their single Relax 45024.

At the end of the century, the Nederbeat era gets much attention. The Zipps too become aware of their former recordings and with research of Ron de Bruijn, archive manager of Dordrecht's Erfgoedcentrum, a number of ancient rehearsal recordings are restored in 1998. None of the recordings are released before and two of the songs are put on vinyl in 1999 by the Utrecht based Platenclub (single PLUT 004). The A-side is the song Mad man's Diary, recorded live on August 9-1969 at the Artisjop Festival in 's-Gravendeel. The bandformation then is Philip Elzerman, Jan Bek, Janco Barut, Ruud van Seventer and John Santoro. The B-side is titled Marie-Juana and contains a demo recording from November 1966 having the original uncensored lyrics!. The bandformation here is Philip Elzerman, Peter Nuijten, Theo Verschoor, John Santoro and producer Job Maarse playing electric organ. The studiorecording of this song is done a month later by the same formation with Job Maarse playing the harpsichord. Like the original Marie-Juana single, the PLUT-single from March 27-1999, comes with a purple Zipps sticker "Be stoned! Dig the Psychedelic Sound", identical to the original ones.

To celebrate the new millenium and to memorize the golden years of the vinyl record, the dutch label Pseudonym collects the original Zipps recordings that have been formerly released on singles in 1966-1969. After remastering, a high quality vinyl LP Be Stoned! DIG:The ZIPPS (VP99.002) is produced and distributed in limited edition on Decmber 10, 1999.

In addition to the vinyl LP, also a CD album with identical title is produced containing the same songs, however extended with extra Zipps releases such as the french Philippe Salerne singles and the never released song LSD25 from a television broadcast of the Zipps on November 11, 1966. The CD is distributed by Pseudonym Records as CDP-1063-DD in a limited edition and is well documented by a photo booklet.

In the first year of the new millenium, two special celebration editions appear on the market. The first one being a CD box named Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire & Beyond. This 4-CD box is produced by the RHINO label and distributed worldwide by record company Capitol/EMI. The American producers Alec Palao and Gary Stewart collected over 100 underground titles with the best psychedelic, freakbeat, British R&B and mod songs from the sixtees. Aside of the many selected British bands like The Pretty Things, The Small Faces, The Troggs, Van Morrison etc, also the Zipps are present with their song “Kicks and Chicks” as recorded in September 1966.

A second celebration box is released on 17 November 2001 by the Hunter Music company that compiled a 5-CD box named Nederbeat '63-'69: Beat, Bluf en Branie. Each CD of this box contains 25 songs from Dutch nederbeat groups in the years 1963-1969 like the Outsiders, Q 65, Les Baroques, Golden Earrings, Motions etc. Most of the titles are originally released as the A-sides of the band's sixtees-singles, like the Zipps title "Kicks and Chicks". The box is very well documented and designed and available as HM 1351-2 (Universal Music BV). With the release of this box, the nederbeat collection is very well documented and certainly of great value for the nederbeat's musical history.

Shortly after the release of the nederbeat celebration edition, a 2-CD box is released in 2002 named Nederbeat '63-'69: The singles B-sides. As the box title shows, the CD's contain only the B-sides of original nederbeat singles from the sixtees bands like After Tea, Sandy Coast, Bintangs, Shocking Blue, Brainbox etc. From The Zipps the song Hipsterism is present that originally appeared as B-side of the Kicks and Chicks single. The box, that is produced by Hunter Music and distributed by Universal music (HM 1421-2), comes with a unique photo booklet showing a.o. the Zipps playing in their rehearsal location Het Dolhuys in Dordrecht in 1967.

The increased interest for the nederbeat music made the former Zipps members decide to join together once again for a millenium celebration concert named The Big Reunion. The concert takes place in the biggest dance-club in Dordrecht on December 10, 2000 before an enthousiastic audience of over 700 former and new Zipps fans. For the occasion, new songs are composed like "Dig it", "Elysian Dream" and "Suchaday" that are recorded, together with existing titles from the past like Mad man's diary, Candy and Honeymelon Junction, in remembrance of the Reunion Concert. This CD is produced and released by The Zipps in December 2001 and titled "Dig it at the Dolhuys" after the location where the recordings took place. Ordering the CD is possible via dolhuys cd

Miss Undaztood is a DVD of a live recording of the band's performance on January 3, 2004 in culture-club BIBELOT in Dordrecht. The registration shows the band with their lightshow at one of their reunion concerts that follows the first Big Reunion concert on special request. All the well-known Zipps classics from 1966-1971, like Higway Gambler, Kicks and Chicks, Marie Juana, Lotus Love, Madman's Diary, Hipsterism, Candy etc. are played with guitar and flute solo's from Peter Nuijten and Philip Elzerman. The long improvised solo's and the energetic performance of the band's classic Alice D-25 shows that the Zipps are still "alive and kicking".

Although the cities Amsterdam and The Hague are wellknown as the birthplaces of many music bands and their contribution to the nederbeat music, also other towns gave birth to a lot of beatbands. The historic city Dordrecht also contributed seriously by having over 15 pop/rock/garage groups in the sixtees/seventees actively involved in the music scene at the time. Besides the Zipps, many names can be mentioned like Inca Bullet Joe, Living Kick Formation, Snowflake, Cosmic Dealer, Heatwave, Blues Incorporated, Oriental Guitars etc. The Dordrecht based Erfgoedcentrum collected a number of titles from that era and released a unique compilation CD (DiEP 2009) with original recordings on December 12, 2009 at the official re-opening of the (restored) new Dolhuis location. Among the 18 titles are many raritees and The Zipps appear with the title "The Singer was stoned", a never released demo-song that is recorded in 1967 for a new Iramac single.

At the 45th anniversary of The Zipps, this special vinyl album is released during a Celebration Party on April 3, 2011 in the historic Dolhuis club, the craddle of the band. The Celebration Party was officially opened by mr. A. Broks, the present mayor of the city of Dordrecht, who was the first person to receive the LP with unique Zipps recordings that have not been released before. Examples are the uncensored original demo recordings Benzedrine Bassplayer, Mari-Juana/Give me your smell and The Singer was Stoned as recorded in the Dolhuis itself in 1966. Besides this, the album also contains live recordings of the Beat Town Skifflers from the year 1965. The vinyl album nr VP99.016 appears on the Dutch Pseudonym label in a limited edition and can be ordered via the website CENTERTAINMENT.NL