2023 = 50 years on and still sounds as good 💓

A grandad now and very happy, but I cannot help thinking the simple 70's were a very happy time.

Everybody over the age of about 50 knows and can hum this tune, it always brings a smile. The most memorable tv tune ever.

One of the greatest tv theme tunes of all time.

Still sounds amazing in 2024

I'm Dutch even for me this theme from Van der Valk brings back memory from old times. I remember this because in my early years I felt proud to have British actors acting in Amsterdam on locations I visited myself, but using Dutch names... I think it was on Sky Channel which in early 80's was also broadcasting as satellite channel in the Netherlands.

Has been my ring tone for a number of years ,sometimes, I don't even answer the phone just so that I can listen to this fabulous tune 😅

How does this still sound so great after all these years and still evoke so many happy memories

The fact that this incredible piece got to number one shows that teens of the time had a very mature musical appreciation which those of today seem to be sorely lacking.

haven't been able to listen to this for 36 years, since my son died, always associate this with him, too painful, love you Jason

I love that a bunch of beige turtleneck wearing 40 something classic musicians made it to number on Top of the Pops in an era of Bowie, Elton John et al...

I have never seen anyone so happy playing a tambourine and it just makes me smile

Simon Park a genius for pulling this together and the happiest conductor in history.

Real musicians, playing real music.

1973:- I was about 7 and in infants school, saw the prettiest girl in my class playing this on the recorder. I still love her even today😁😁

Fab Theme featured in Van Der Valk ❤️Gives whole new meaning to beautiful 🥺🎼🎶Miss Reruns of this so much ,R I P Barry Foster 1927-2002 who passed away at 74 ,He was great in this as Commisaris Piet Van Der Valk ❤️

The only theme tune from a television series to top the U.K. in the 1970’s ….absolutely loved it

A great tune for a great series!! Such a shame those days are gone!! These days it's all reality TV and game shows!!, nothing like the themes ie persuaders/the avengers that you could watch, listen too, and enjoy!!!.

Love this,brings back so many good memories of 1974

Me: "Why is this in my recommended?" Me: Watches video. Me: "You win this time, KZfaq."

Hats off to whoever organised the filming and editing of this number. The film focused on each of the instruments in turn, even showing a creative shot through the harp strings at one point. Beautiful rendition of a timeless classic.

Wonderful. I love this song since I was a little kid.

Music is a time machine hearing a song you haven’t heard in years can bring back memories.

How diverse were those wonderful 1970's

Always enjoy an orchestra featuring electric bass, particularly in the 70's, what a beautiful sound.

Putting music to memories. “EYE LEVEL” by The Simon Park Orchestra. One late afternoon in September, 1973, I left my home at 7, Trevor Drive, Caverswall, and, walking down Trevor Drive, turned right into School Lane and strolled towards the Auctioneer's Arms at Cookshill. A dark blue Beresford's double decker bus, on contract to Blythe Bridge High School, drove past me going in the same direction. In the late afternoon sunlight, the bus stopped opposite the Auctioneer's Arms. There was a warm, blue haze about the whole setting. It unloaded its contingent of school children, one of whom was our paper boy, 12 years old Bryan Garner, who crossed the road carrying his school satchel and headed up The Green to Roughcote Lane. If that scene had been filmed and music put to the images, then this would have been it. As long as this music is played, Bryan will always be getting off that school bus at Cookshill and it will forever be a late sunlit afternoon in September, 1973.

Just downloaded it from Apple Music, brings back so many happy memories

It brings back wonderful memories. For me the king of all catchy tunes.

I heard a lovely old Guy, (JOHN) whistling this in Icelands today and I said I knew that tune and we got into a conversation. Music is a great thing to do this.

And credit to a very enthusiastic conductor!

Van Der Valk great show in its day. Everything stopped in our house when it was on back in 70s remember dad buying 45 of Eye Level. Still a great tune to this day :)

Beautiful music. A timeless classic.

Takes me back to watching Van der Valk with Barry Foster as a kid.

Amazing that I somehow remembered the tv series it was from! Van de Valk!! ♥️

That conductor knows how to CONDUCT.......! Propa ♥️

One of the catchiest and one of the best instrumentals.

Legendary and still beautiful song.

Fact of The Day: This the last ever instrumental to get to Number 1 in the UK

Thanks a lot for posting this !!!!!! When I was a child ages ago, this tune was played in a KLM airlines TV commercial whose images of Amsterdam made me fall in love with the Netherlands. Much later, when I first visited the country, the tune kept sounding in my ears! It is still in my heart, full of bitter sweet memories of vanished times.

What a great piece of TV-Music. The Van der Valk Album from Simon Park is one of the best!!!

I was 9 when this charted. I remember being at Ipswich when it was in the charts watching football against Lazio from Italy. They played this over the PA and a couple of Italian guys near us loved it. So weird the things that I remember after half a century...

This has been in my head since I was 4. I just didn't know until now

Taken a 49 year old back to his childhood - my dad loved this. Thanks most muchly!

What a lovely conductor. Such a lovely man, smiles all round for all. How people have changed since then.........

Wonderful memories and Van de Valk was a good programme with a great setting in Amsterdam! Good to see the program being re run on Talking Pictures UK channel

One of My favorites, Was played in the US on easy listening stations during the 70s and 80s and I never knew the title till now.....thank God for YT!!!!

Noel Edmonds , the best of the bunch !

This gives me SO much JOY everytime I hear it! Better times...!

I have this vision of the late Barry Foster walking through Amsterdam thanks to this!

My Dad bought the single back in 73. Life seemed fun & easy. Miss those days...Miss my Dad

Love love love,especially live..goosebumps

my mum used to love this wish she was still here i miss her so much she was a big van der valk fan

Van der Valk, I remembered the series that "Eye Level" by the Simon Park Orchestra was from and it didnt take very long👍🌹

I was 5 in '73 & remember this from my childhood along with Popcorn by Hot Butter, which I'm going to listen to after this. Such great memories, so much has changed, so many people have gone.

Memories of the school band come flooding back. A good Christian Brother coaxing actual music out of a bunch of 10 year olds playing hand me down instruments. Those were the days.

Beautiful reminds me of my childhood hood where as everything gone wrong 😭😭😭😭😭

You'd just never see an orchestra, light music, or instrumental music in the charts these days, or anything mainstream.

I whistle this tune regularly it's a lovely tune . As a kid I used to watch this programme. My dad was particularly found of Holland. He was part of the liberating of Holland from the Nazis during the second world war. The Netherlands and England play tonight in the Euros good luck to both teams 2024 !

From a time when Great Britain's Charts were Eclectic.

Forever beautiful. Lively and entertaining. Never get tired of listening.

I played this on a playground xylophone in a park in Minneapolis and it felt sooooo good. I am 56.

Great memories for me, I had just given birth to my son! I still love it!

wow IM 68 now. I want to time warp back to the seventies, best times of your life. todays teens have NO idea what they misssed.

My mum bought this. Brings back memories of her ❤❤

love this since I heard it that year, great performance of this magic tune.Thank you for posting

i loved this when i was a kid bring back the good old days

Dam , I was a 5 year old back then, born May 23rd 1968, from northern Ireland UK ♥️🇬🇧🤝 , remember this from back then,! Where has the years gone , just wish we could go back to then,! 😔

So beautiful. Thank you.

This tune is a complex piece .. quite "gentle" to start...then up to "really forceful", then ... suddenly...gentle...only to "erupt" again at the end!! FABULOUS!!!!

That shows how diverse it was in those days real musicians playing real music!

Oh god this brings back so many memories when I was at Berkeley Vale Public School. Our School Song is sung in tune to this musical piece. It brings a tear to my eye.

Great great great tune!!!!......loved it from the first moment I saw Vander Valk....

Commisaris! Loved this n the series

My late mother bought this! Bless her ❤

This piece of music remains my all-time favourite. I can listen to it over and over again. It brings back many happy memories of my childhood and never fails to cheer me up.

One of my earliest memories was of this song being used in a KLM TV ad, loved it then, love it now

This tune "Eye Level" brings back such wonderful memories!

lovely ! nothing can beat this ...wonderful.

I loved this introduction to Van Der Valk. Brings me back to the early 70's.

I was 10 at the time, loved this then and still do as listen to it often to bring back wonderful memories 👍

Forever associated with the equally brilliant original Van Der Valk (Barry Foster) from 1972-ish for a good many series!

je me rappelle très bien de ce feuilleton et de son générique, que j ai chercheé pendant des années

Still such a bangin' tune! 📯🎺🎼🕺🏽💃🏼👏👍

Brings back some great memories of 1973, traveling the country stock car racing with my then girlfriend now wife Wendy.

The First Time I Heard This I Was A Child In Australia And I Was Hooked Ever since

As earworms go, this tune has to be up there.

I remember my reaction to this when I was a child. I stared, and stared at the tv screen; hoping and wishing for the tune to come back!!!! ( It appears that some things never change! ). Why do I keep mourning for the Seventies sooo much these days??!!!

That tune make me dream to travel to Netherlands since I was 17 , and I am 62 and still haven't gone there 😢

Always loved this such a powerful piece of music best with headphones on and volume turned up

Van der Valk theme well cool :)

I’d go back there in a heartbeat.

I was one of those people who bought that single. My dad called it Eye Level Grill!

Marched onto every parade to this tune from the band at Strensall Barracks York, 1973/74 as a junior soldier, hey Scotty and Max, remember the clear nail varnish on the boots disaster, Hey Sergeant East, same too Christine from the NAAFI, And miss J Brayshaw from The Bop at Huntingdon. I miss you all. And Jamaica Joe the good guy from Jamaica and Manchester, hello Delaney from Moss Side.

Amazing piece. It's the tune that was used in the KLM Royal Dutch Airline that aired on TV in Nigeria in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

Never in human history has there been such a conglomeration of beige skivvies. I wish I had one.

I love this. I was 6 and a half years old in September 1973 and I remember the song.

A CLASSIC tune indeed and of course Matt Monroe added lyrics to this VERY tune also in the music key E flat. I were only 5 and a half years o young, was forever humming it to myself. These days I’m often playing it on the piano, .org and and singing the lyrics. Yes STIIL a CLASSIC oldie.

great show great music

TV show with a fantastic theme tune

How can anyone dislike this???