Simon Park Orchestra
Simon Park ( * March 1946 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire ) is an English composer and orchestra conductor.
It is known Simon Park, who studied music at Oxford, especially for his instrumental piece Eye Level. The song is based on a Dutch children's song and was written by Jack Trombey. Beginning of the 1970s it arranged Park for his Simon Park Orchestra and took it on.
The issue was thus known that it was used as theme song for the successful Thames Television detective series Van der Valk, with Barry Foster ( the killer in Hitchcock's Frenzy ) is selected as the Dutch investigators. 1972, the starting year of the series, the song made its debut at # 41 in the UK, but as the single was re-released with increasing popularity of the series for the second season in September 1973, it rose in the UK charts at # 1, where they four weeks remained. You sold almost a million times. It was the first television tune that reached the top position in England.
Simon Park wrote and produced even more television music, under the pseudonym Simon Haseley, and published, among others, the album Something in the Air and Venus Fly Trap, but Eye Level should be the only time that he came into the charts with his music.
ZDF used for many years the beginning of the title Good Company by Gary Grant and Simon Park from the album Give Peace a Chance as the title music of the foreign journals.