About the songs mentioned or referred to with variations in chapter titles, with information and links:
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea — Desert
- Am I Blue — Am I Black & Blue & Weary
- Heat Wave
- De-Lovely (by Cole Porter) with Rhapsody in Blue (by George Gerswhin)
- It Ain’t Necessarily So
- Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland — On the Battlefield
- By the Beautiful Sea —Bloody, Deadly, Painful Sea
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- The Lady is a Tramp
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- September Song
- Stormy Weather
- I Concentrate on You