[1][2] Catero was originally from New York City, where he worked for CBS Records/Columbia, recording artists such as Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.

[3] In San Francisco, Catero worked on albums by Bob Dylan, Al Kooper, Tower of Power and Santana, many of these under producer David Rubinson at the Automatt.

Catero spent hours in his spare time working precisely restoring his collection of radio shows to an acceptable audio quality.

He then moved on to work for CBS/Columbia in New York as a mastering engineer and later as a studio engineer [1] recording some of Columbia’s most famous performers, including Barbra Streisand, Big Brother, and the Holding Company, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, The Chambers Brothers, Chicago, Cleo Laine, Count Basie Band, David Brubeck, Janis Joplin,[9] Linda Ronstadt, and Mel Tormé.

[10] In the early 1980s, Catero started his independent record label, Catero Records,[11] with a diverse roster of recording artists including Don Lewis, Roberta Vandervort, Ernie Mansfield, Mel Martin & Randy Vincent, Paul Speer, Terry Garthwaite, Cyrille Verdeaux, Daniel Goldberg & Pino Marrone, Dick Hindman Trio, Nick Lane Band, Chris James Quartet, Barbara Mauritz, Laurie Antonioli, Rhyth-O-Matics, Eric Muhler, Doug Mc'Keehan, Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra, Skipper Wise and Edwin Cohen, and Mimi Fox.