He experienced his first taste of mainstream success as the frontman for the chart-making early 1980s rock band, Silver Condor and has gone on to appear as the featured vocalist on numerous other artists' albums, one-off recordings, and commercials since then.
In 1968 Joe was asked to join The Bonnevilles, led by Dave Coombs, who were popular at West Virginia University and played at Somers Point, New Jersey in the summer.
[1] In the mid-1970s Joe was lead singer for a popular local rock band,Copper Lake, which often played at "The Numbers" (The 615 Musical Lounge) in York, Pennsylvania.
In the late 1970s, Joe Cerisano and his guitarist/co-leader Lee Fink had one of the top original groups in a sea of cover bands in the New Jersey rock club scene.
On their Imaginos album, Blue Öyster Cult featured Cerisano as the lead singer for the song, "The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria".