The following year, Zensor Records in Germany issued the band's first LP, Staying Out Late With the Beat Rodeo, produced by Don Dixon, with two tracks helmed by Richard Gottehrer.
[1] The record, which shows a country bent implicit in its name (country-ish guitar sound, with a dash of fiddle), and integrates it into the already established pop-rock context.
IRS Records signed the quartet and re-issued the album in 1985, shortening the band's name to simply "Beat Rodeo".
[1] In 1986, Beat Rodeo released their second album, Home in the Heart of the Beat, produced by Scott Litt;[1] the LP produced two singles: "Everything I'm Not" b/w "It Could Happen Here" ("Everything" also appeared on a 12" promo disc with "I'm Not Afraid (Doesn't Matter to Me)" on the flip); and "New Love" b/w "Just Friends" (with videos made for both sides of the single; "Just Friends" had been previously released on Staying Out Late.)
Although "Everything I'm Not" got some airplay at college stations, none of Beat Rodeo's albums or singles were hits, and IRS dropped them from the label; the band broke up soon thereafter.