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."