Produced by Al Kasha who had been responsible for the  1 hit "Go Away Little Girl" by Gormé's husband Steve Lawrence, "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" featured backing vocals by The Cookies. "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" merges the sensibilities of the Brill Building Sound with the Latin music which Gormé had previously specialized in, as the song describes a romantic relationship inaugurated by a couple dancing to the bossa nova - "the dance of love." The bossa nova is a Brazilian music style in vogue in the United States from the late 1950s. According to a story told By Sirius XM Radio DJ Lou Simon on his Sunday Night Talk Show about Music (it was previously called Talk Talk, now the series goes under the name “The Diner”, he got to sit down and talk with Both Eydie and her husband Steve when he was invited to have dinner at their house some years ago). When Eydie was first pitched this song by whomever she got the song from, she despised the song and did not want to record it originally, but her label forced her to record the song anyways, so when she went into the studio to record the song, she deliberately recorded a bad mediocre vocal performance of the song (even as going as far as deliberately singing an off pitch note towards the end of the song) and she did this with the hopes that her label would think her performance was so bad that they would never consider releasing the song as a single. Turns out she was wrong and this song was released as a single and it made the Top 10 and it became her biggest Top 40 hit she ever had.