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Title:My Heart Said (The Bossa Nova)
Artist:Irene Reid
Composer:Weil-Mann-Lieber-Stoller
Label:Verve
Release:May 1963
As a teenage jazz vocalist in the late forties, Irene Reid was hired by the Savoy Ballroom on Lenox Avenue New York, as lead singer with jazz trumpeter and arranger, Dick Vance. She later toured and recorded with Count Basie's band and appeared on Broadway in the cast of The Wiz. In 1962-3 a Brazilian music style, Bossa Nova, swept the world and she recorded a single in that style, My Heart Said (The Bossa Nova). It made No.27 on the 2UE Top 40 in June 1963 and was listed for 9 weeks.