[2] Lowrey's first commercially successful full-sized electronic organ, the Model S Spinet or Berkshire, came to market in 1955, the year of his death.
He later traveled for the Lowrey company directly as District Sales Manager for southern California while still performing occasional concerts.
[9] The Lowrey Organ and its built-in drum patterns are also heard on the million-seller single, "Why Can't We Live Together" by Timmy Thomas.
A Lowrey Organ, on a percussive "marimba repeat" setting, provided the synthesizer-like background ostinato on The Who song "Baba O'Riley".
[10] Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine switched from a Vox Continental to a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe[1][failed verification] sometime between late 1966 and early 1967, and used it from then on, adding a fuzzbox and plugging it into a Marshall stack.
[11] Adam Young from Owl City played a modified Lowrey spinet organ in the music video for the song "Fireflies".
[12] From 1966 to 1971, Lowrey also produced combo organs for Gibson while the guitar manufacturer was owned by parent company Chicago Musical Instruments.
However, they had several additional features that made their sound distinctive from other Lowrey models, including "Repeat", "Glide", and "Trumpet Wow-wow" effects.