Then in 1941, Felice Chiusano replaced Enrico Gentile and the group was renamed Quartetto Cetra and performed on the radio review Riepilogando in 1941 In October 1947, Enrico De Angelis left the group to join the Army and was replaced by singer Lucia Mannucci, the wife of Virgilio Savona.
Quartetto Cetra made their stage debut in Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini's Gran Baldoria review in 1951 at Teatro Nuovo in Milan.
With time the group worked on other TV programmes, including parodies of novels such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
These include "Il Visconte di Castelfombrone", "In un palco della Scala", "Un disco dei Platters","'Nella vecchia fattoria" (Italian version of Old MacDonald Had a Farm), "Vecchia America", "Che centrattacco" (dedicated to footballer Virgilio Levratto), "Un bacio a mezzanotte" and "I ricordi della sera".
Their song "Crapa Pelada (Testa Pelata)" ("Bald Head") was used on the American television series Breaking Bad in the final episode of the third season.