Simon Park

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Eye Level (Theme from the TV Series 'Van der Valk')
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 11/25/1972 (24 weeks)

Simon Park (born March 1946 in Market Harborough , Leicestershire ) is an English composer and orchestra conductor.

Simon Park, who studied music in Oxford , is best known for his instrumental piece Eye Level . The piece is based on a Dutch nursery rhyme and was written by Jack Trombey. Park arranged and recorded it for his Simon Park Orchestra in the early 1970s .

The subject became known as the theme song for the successful Thames Television detective series Van der Valk , with Barry Foster as the Dutch investigator. In 1972, the show's starting year, the song first made it to number 41 in the UK, but when the single was reissued for its second season in September 1973 as the series grew in popularity, it rose to number 1 in the UK charts where it stayed four weeks. It sold just under a million times. It was the first television tune to reach the top spot in England.

Simon Park also composed and produced other television music, also under the pseudonym Simon Haseley , and released the albums Something in the Air and Venus Fly Trap , but Eye Level was the only time that his music made it into the charts .

For years, ZDF used the beginning of the track Good Company by Gary Grant and Simon Park from the album Give Peas a Chance as the theme music for the international journal .

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  1. ^ British Hit Singles & Albums , 18th Edition, Guinness World Records Limited 2005, ISBN 9781904994008

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SURNAME Park, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haseley, Simon (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Market Harborough , Leicestershire