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[[Know Your Car]] is Delia's 58-second version of Maurice Abrahms' 1930s hit ''Get Out And Get Under'', recreated using car sounds as music for a cartoon sequence<ref name=TLL5075/> of a Do-It-Yourself car maintenance programme ''[[Family Car]]'', produced by [[Stanley Hyland]].<ref name=TLL5075/><ref name=TLL6127/>

<BLOCKQUOTE>
<I>I always immensely enjoyed doing funny programmes. There was
one called ''Family Car'', a do-it-yourself maintenance programme,
for which they wanted lighthearted cartoon-type music. I worked
out the four-stroke cycle of an engine and made suitable push &hellip;
suck &hellip; bang &hellip; blow &hellip; noises. I used the tune
''Get Out and Get Under'', but I made it on simulated car horns and cut it together
very carefully. The music worked all right, but it was turned down
because one particular car had been used for the series and the
manufacturers didn't really want my efforts to be associated with
their product.</I><ref>Delia, quoted in [[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: The First 25 Years]], p.85.</ref>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

[[Brian Hodgson]] also says that it was never used,<ref name=SS98n50>[[Special Sound]], p.98 note 50, quoting Brian Hodgson's brochure notes for album [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21]].</ref> and in [[Desmond Briscoe]]'s
script for the [[Radiophonic Workshop in Concert]] event, he says:

<BLOCKQUOTE>
We decided to use the music hall song 'Get Out and Get Under', which seemed
singularly appropriate, and it was agreed that we should realise it in our
terms, but the producer found he had a problem - as you know, the B.B.C.
doesn't intentionally advertise, but you can't do a programme on car
maintenance without using a real motorcar, and so it was agreed with the
Society of Motor Manufacturers that a B.M.C. car should be used - but then
I think the B.B.C. were worried that the B.M.C. would think that the B.B.C.
thought that B.M.C. cars sounded like our [[Family Car]], even if our
motor horn is more musical, and it does break into Waltztime.<ref>[[DD125609]]: Desmond Briscoe's script for the [[Radiophonic Workshop in Concert]], p.4.</ref>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

The track list of the album [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21]]<ref name=mb21>[http://www.mb21.co.uk/ether.net/radiophonics/rec354.shtml Track listing for ''BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21'' on mb21.co.uk]</ref> and the [[Radiophonic Database]] entry for [[TRW 5075]] ("Family Car")<ref name=TLL5075/> date the work to 1963, while the entry for [[TRW 6127]] ("Know Your Car '64")<ref name=TLL6127/> dates it to 1964 and says the series was first broadcast on 4th June 1964.

=Copyright=
The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:
<PRE>
Title: Family Car
Writer(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Music
Creation date: 11 August 1999
</PRE>

=Tapes=
* [[DD228]]: Mechanical sounds and other tracks

=[[Spectrogram]]=
{{Spectrogram|Know Your Car - Spectrogram}}

=Availability=
* Broadcast on 4th June 64 on BBC1.<ref name=TLL6127/>
* Released on ''[[BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21]]'' in 1979.
* Released on ''[[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective]]'' in 2008.
* Gnutella reports a 1.34MB MP3 file
* In the BBC Sound Archive on tape [[TRW 5075]]: "Family Car": "Television Do-It-Yourself car maintenance programme, music for cartoon sequence.".<ref name=TLL5075>The [[Tape Library List]] entry for [[TRW 5075]]</ref>
* In the BBC Sound Archive on tape [[TRW 6127]]: "Know Your Car '64"<ref name=TLL6127>The [[Tape Library List]]'s entry for [[TRW 6127]].</ref>
* The BBC Sound Archive's tape [[TRW 6992]]: "Family Car" (Dick Mills, 1969) "Copy of TRW 5075 for Staff Training" is missing.<ref name=TLL6992>The [[Tape Library List]]'s entry for [[TRW 6992]].</ref>
* In the BBC Sound Archive on tape [[TRW 7031]]: "Get Out and Get Under": Copy made by Dick Mills in 1969 for [[Sue Booth]] of Radio Stoke on Trent".<ref name=TLL7031>The [[Tape Library List]]'s entry for [[TRW 7031]].</ref>
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