At this point, only one element was missing — the music itself; the Ball "brothers" soon recorded two songs, God Save the Night Fever (a "portmoneau" gag of God Save The Queen by Sex Pistols and Bee Gees disco soundtrack extravaganza [url=https://discogs.com/master/23443]Saturday Night Fever[/url], both released in 1977), and borderline offensive "Chinese reggae" Dreadlock'n Lol — both explicitly and obviously satirical, with nonsensical lyrics and over-the-top vocal mannerisms. The band initially planned to release a flexi-disc insert with Spirou but the magazine's promotional budget ended up insufficient to cover the costs. Luckily, Spirou label stepped in and agreed to release a God Save The Night Fever 7" single with proper artwork, which came out on 1 April 1979 — symbolic date to inaugurate the band that literally started as a joke.

The following year, Bowling Balls signed a record deal with Spirou, which released their sophomore 7" single, Visco Video, featuring a cover of Del Shannon's "When You Walk in the Room" on the B-side and produced by Phil Delire, in April 1980. The band soon had debut live appearances on Spirou's primetime television music show, "Génération 80," and at Pepperland, a renowned comic bookstore in Brussels. As they lacked true musicianship, the Bowling Balls delivered comedy routines and orchestrated truly bizarre and eccentric performances. For instance, they appeared as a quartet of accordionists in January 1981 on Gilles Verlant's weekly music TV program, RTBF Follies, as the band presented their third 7" single, You Don't Know What It's Like To Be Alone In The House. Jannin and Bertrand, the only members deeply engaged in creating music, soon produced enough material for a full-length album but the label insisted it was too early for the LP; instead, Ariola released the group's fourth seven-inch, [url=https://discogs.com/master/204091]The Boys/The Girls[/url] (notably produced by Dan Lacksman and Marc Moulin of Telex) in September 1981. Shortly after, Bert Bertrand suddenly left Belgium, claiming he'd be traveling to Bora-Bora and leaving his bandmates on an indefinite hiatus.

In early February 1983, Bertrand committed suicide in New York. The remaining members decided to release the band's sole album in his memory a few months later — a promptly titled First & Last Album For The Same Price LP featuring all four singles and several new songs. In September 1995, Bowling Balls presented The Greatest Best Of Number One Hits Ever CD compilation on Spirou. Two years later, French television channel Spirou produced La véritable histoire des Bowling Balls documentary about the band, featuring interviews with Thierry Tinlot, former editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine, Jean-Pierre Hautier (Jannin's bandmate in Zinno), and journalist Marc Oschinsky.

In January 2004, following a complete four-volume reissue of "[url=https://discogs.com/artist/4236274]Germain et nous…[/url]" comics by [url=https://discogs.com/label/1851401]Le Lombard[/url], Fred Jannin presented For Ever And Never 2×CD compilation on his private imprint Spirou, featuring ten previously unreleased songs remastered by Dan Lacksman and "You Don't Know" cover in French by Marka (Serge Van Laeken).