Blame it on the Bossa Nova"
  
is a 1963 hit song performed by
Eydie Gormé. It reached #7 on
the US charts and #32 on the UK
charts.
  The song was written by
Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann,
Bossa nova is a Brazilian music
style which, with its associated
dancing forms, became popular
in the late 1950s. The Weil-Mann
song relates the story of a
woman's falling in love with her
fiancé as a result of "the dance
of love."