Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann (subtitled Recorded in Rio de Janeiro with the Greatest Bossa Nova Players) is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1962 for the Atlantic label. AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating "Rather than play a watered-down version of bossa nova in New York studios (which was becoming quite common as the bossa nova fad hit its peak in 1962), flutist Herbie Mann went down to Brazil and recorded with some of the top players of the
Blame It on the Bossa Nova the car stereo when character Alby Grant solicits a male prostitute. David Alan Grier's character, Don 'No Soul' Simmons, covered the song in the end credits for "Amazon Women on the Moon". In the 1993 film "Needful Things" (based on the Stephen King novel of the same name), the lead character says of the havoc he causes in the town of Castle Rock, "Hey, don't blame me. Blame it on the bossa nova." "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" was also recorded by Caterina Valente for her 1965 album "Latin Melodies Old and New" (featuring Edmundo Ros) and by Cliff