He was a founding member of the pop group the Critters, singing their biggest hits "Younger Girl" and "Mr. Dieingly Sad".
He was the son of an immigrant father, Vito Ciccone, who owned and operated Bill Williams Auto Sales in the 1950s.
[6] After Ciccone's time in the service, Frankie Valli recruited him to join a revamped lineup of The Four Seasons, where he played guitar and bass and contributed lead vocals to songs including "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" and "Rhapsody".
Ciccone recruited his Critters bandmate Jimmy Ryan to join Shapiro and Gerry Polci (partially capitalizing on the Jersey Boys resurgence in the Four Seasons' popularity) to form The Hit Men, a group that continues several years after Ciccone died with Shapiro as its manager.
[9][6][10] Ciccone, who was a long time resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey and Port Saint Lucie, Florida had moved to Sun Valley, Idaho, a few years before he died of a heart attack on October 8, 2016, in adjacent Ketchum at the age of 70.