Legendary Shore musician Stormin’ Norman Seldin tells life story in new book ‘You Don’t Know Me’

The cover of Norman Seldin’s autobiography, “You Don’t Know Me.” When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Norman Seldin was 16 years old and already a working musician. He was also, in fact, promoting his own shows. And on that November night, he had booked a “Cavalcade of Stars” show at the Shore nightclub, Val Ernie’s Sea Girt Inn. Johnny Thunder — who had had what was destined to be his biggest hit, “Loop de Loop,” earlier that year — was headlining, with many other acts on the bill as well. Seldin, a pianist, would lead the 14-piece house band. Seldin found out via television that …

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