Soul Bossa Nova

Media use

• The piece appears in the soundtrack to Sidney Lumet's 1964 dramatic film The Pawnbroker, which was scored by Jones.
• In 1969, the French composer Nino Ferrer used the orchestration of the theme for the chorus of his song Les cornichons, based on the title "Big Nick" by James Booker.
• It was used by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Alan 'Fluff' Freeman as a theme for his afternoon programme that was broadcast in the UK during the 1970s.
• The theme was used in a long-running Canadian television game show, Definition.
• Canadian hip hop group Dream Warriors sampled the title heavily for their popular track "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style", in their debut album And Now the Legacy Begins in 1991.
• Like Dream Warriors, Canadian Mike Myers grew up watching Definition, and as a homage to his childhood used the title as the theme for the Austin Powers film series, starting with ' in 1997.
• It was used as a theme for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
• It appeared in the videogames Samba de Amigo, ', and Just Dance 2.
• The song also appears in the Samurai Jack season 1 episode "Jack vs. Mad Jack", where it is played from a jukebox in a bar that Jack visits at the start of the episode.
• The title was used from 2001 to 2005 as the title theme in a German "ethno-comedy" TV show Was guckst du?, which was based on the British TV show Goodness Gracious Me.
• It was sampled by Ludacris for his Austin Powers-themed 2005 single, "Number One Spot", on his 2004 album The Red Light District.
• The title was featured in the 2009 pilot episode of Glee.
• In 2010, Canadian jazz singer Emilie-Claire Barlow merged this piece with Sonny Bono's "The Beat Goes On" for the title track of her album of pop covers, The Beat Goes On.
• In 2014, Jones executive produced Canadian jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky's album Little Secret, which featured a song entitled "Something New". The song interpolated melodic references to "Soul Bossa Nova". The music video featured the jacket of the album on which the song was first published, a turntable playing the Mercury Records disc and a photograph of Quincy Jones.