Its consequence is worse.

That was Life's Full of Consequence from Cabin in the Sky, sung by Harold Arlen.

Today we're going to be taking a look at Harold Arlen's career through many rare recordings and some that are not so rare.

This is Ken Bloom, and the show is Anything Goes.

Paul Lazarus is out today, so I and Ed Jablonski, Harold Arlen's biographer, will be taking a look at Mr. Arlen's career.

We're going to be playing many rare tapes never before heard and some better-known recordings, too.

Because of the age of the tapes and the home recordings and the glass records we're going to be playing, some of the sound may be somewhat, let's say, lacking in high fidelity, but we think the material more than compensates for it.

But the first wonderful recording was the one by Arlen himself.