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The International Artists record label in Houston, also home to contemporary Texas underground groups such as Red Krayola and Bubble Puppy, signed the Elevators to a record contract and released the album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators in November 1966, which became popular among the burgeoning counterculture.

Tommy Hall's sleeve-notes for the album, which advocated chemical agents ( such as LSD ) as a gateway to a higher, ' non-Aristotelian ' state of consciousness, has also contributed to the album's legendary status.