The Simon Park Orchestra is a group best remembered for performing "Eye Level", the theme tune for the television series Van der Valk composed by Jan Stoeckart, which spent four weeks at the number one position in the UK Singles Chart in September 1973.
He learned to play the organ as a child and went on to study at Worcester College, Oxford, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in music.
[5] With Cliff Twemlow and Peter Taylor, Park co-wrote "Distant Hills", which was used as the closing theme tune to the television series Crown Court (1972–84).
He wrote the music for the 1972 ITV mystery quiz Whodunnit?, for Cross Country Go, a B movie made by British Movietone News in 1974, and incidental music for the wartime TV series Danger UXB in 1979.
[8] The 1972 piece "Great Day" (credited to Simon Haseley), which was scored for large orchestra, has been sampled many times, including by Beyonce in A Woman Like Me, as used in the 2006 film The Pink Panther.