I was studying engineering in the 1970s when our maths professor, right in the middle of a lecture, stopped and complained that for days now he simply couldn't get this theme tune out of his head. Some of the students then started humming it and before long all 300 of us joined in imitating trumpets and violins.
Why am I seeking out and listening to the theme tune to Van der Valk at 1.35 in the morning on the 7th Jan... because this music is a time capsule back to when life (although far from perfect) hadn’t deteriorated into a sad shadow of what it once was ...and this music just confirms that.
DesertRose122 Sadly I agree. I’ve thought the same for quite a while - and I can’t see how we’re going to get out of the current situation for a long time.
Brings a tear to my of a mixed childhood. Watching the series again it's clear how much John Thaw borrowed from the superb Barry Foster in playing Morse.
I was an American at the Thamesmead School in Shepperton-on-Thames in 1973 and loved this show having previously lived in Amsterdam. Every day during lunch some radio station played this and some kids -- at the time to me giant sixth formers -- played this at full blast which filled the schoolyard. A happy moment for me then and a happy memory now.
I had this tune playing in my head regularly for years .my mum put it on a mix tape for me when I was a kid and I always liked it .I tried whistling it into Shazam but it couldn’t find it . Move on to this evening I put on Peter Kay’s phoenix nights and they have it playing in the background I go to Shazam and there it’s is and all Of a sudden memories come flooded back to a marching band I was in when I was ten which played van der valk but 37 years later I had completely forgotten this till tonight. I google the name scroll down a few till I find this RUclips video of it and now here I am finishing my little story with a thank you , thank you Peter Kay, Shazam,RUclips and the person that uploaded this
I was born 1971 and I can remember hearing this theme tune but not the programme so much. Listening to this now reminds me of when life was so simple and happy.
Brilliant series. The late great Barry Foster. Thanks ever so much to Talking Pictures TV channel for reshowing all episodes on Friday nights in 2020....
I don't think most people realise the value of cheerful music like this. It really is uplifting, and there are good musical reasons why. A lot of music, whether modern or classical is just music to cut your throat by. This happy tune should be compulsory listening for those feeling depressed!
I was a European truck driver. Every chance i had i would park up in Weesp, one stop from Amsterdam central station. I recognised all the filming locations. I saw the drey horses delivering the beer to the bars where they filmed. A lot of weekends i would sit outside drinking coffee trying to get into Ann Franks house, but could not get in because of German students being told about the Frank family. The Dutch people were so amazing. I once got back from Amsterdam. Washed,changed and flew back to Amsterdam with the ex. I flew back to Liverpool, got home, got the truck and i was back in Amsterdam the night after. I used to blast out the theme all the time. As i worked from Oswestry i was stunned that Simon Park was from the Oswestry area himself, the guy who wrote the theme tune. They don`t make T V like this anymore.
Such an uplifting piece of music, never fails to pick me up when I'm down. I feel as If I've been transported to a world of sheer joy. Music doesn't get much better than this.
Dave ONeill : Fantastic exciting stirring theme. They don't make em like that any more. It does indeed bring back innocent childhood memories of running down the street with your school mates on a cold dark early November evening knocking on people's doors and running away. There was always one tripped and fell. We would all stop in our tracks to help him or her up whilst giggling. The magic of childhood. Oh to travel back in time.
tina sheppard Goosebumps indeed! Thrilled to hear this again. I used to get so cross when the music faded away. I see the composer Jan Stoeckart died in January of this year.
You will, then, remember the theme tunes to Randal and Hopkirk ( Deceased ), Follyfoot, The Onedin Line ( which is a lovely shortened version of Khachaturian`s "Spartacus," well worth listening to in YT ), and the great theme tune of The Persuaders ( Roger Moore and Tony Curtis - as were ).
Why ITV didn't use Eye Level as the theme for the 2020 Van Der Valk reboot will remain one of the mysteries of the ages, literally one of the best theme tunes ever...
Barry Foster is one of the best actors I've ever seen on stage (without ever trying to steal a scene, one couldn't walk out without remembering HIM). He brings a great humanity to the series which is repeated on TV with its glorious theme. Matt Munro's "And you smiled" is a loving joy. Munro has the same quality with his voice. Miss them.
It IS old. There is a passage in "The Marriage of Figaro" that sounds quite similar. We might talk about Simon Parks Orchestra feat. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Ah, you decided to be the unoriginal person doing the 'never grows old' comment, I see. You keep hanging in there for that thought of your own, it could happen any day.
When I hear this I do remember as a young dutch guy the tv-series. In "my" Amsterdam but with english speaking people.. and the white dutch police VW Kever (Beetle).. memory lane...
Thank you. Im in my mid 40's now and whenever i hear this it reminds me of my childhood..a young boy sitting with my mom and dad. It fills me with overwhelming joy and emotion. Memories are such wonderfull things.
Well put. That's what it does for me too, and I'm in my 60s. It's complete joy and warmth and comfort to hear it again - that feeling of being encircled with happiness.
A teacher played this to us once in infant school back in the early 80's and it stuck with me like an ear worm ever since. The best theme tune. Particularly towards the end as it all really ramps up 🥰 thank you for posting.
This takes me back to my senior school days mid seventies...played before the annual school play..when every one were taking there seats and settling in....brilliant.
This was a stirring theme during my childhood and it always reminds me of my Amsterdam trip in 1987, which almost turned into an even bigger trip thanks to the sales guy outside the railway station!
Andrew Buckley how sad that people only relate visiting Amsterdam with drugs. It's a fantastic city with amazing culture and architecture. Fucking wasters.
Classic and great tune, played it in my Junior School Orchestra early 1970s, I was violin. Currently watching the series on TV at the moment, today’s TV programmes don’t come close.
That I can recall, the original Van Der Valk series did not air in the US during it's original run, but I do recall the theme being used at the time in the background of TV and radio advertising for KLM. It is a catchy, memorable tune that has stuck with me for all these years; an earworm that, even still, would wake up at the sight of KLM aircraft and stay with me for days. I had not been familiar with the original series, but the portion of Eye Level subtly used in the music for the recent revival of Van Der Valk immediately caught my ear. It's great to be reintroduced to this fine piece of music in its entirety after 40-50 years.
I read an amusing quip long ago by Barry Foster along the lines of "if I hadn't looked so much like Jon Pertwee I might have got more work - people kept getting us confused". What he said was actually very funny. I tried to find the quote just now but couldn't. So yes, David, you're right.
My Dad was from Holland and even though Mum was an Aussie, she loved visiting. Van der Valk was shown really late at night on Australian tv and she and I used to sit up to watch it. Happy memories
I can remember in my teens( 25yrs ago) when i used to walk through Central Station in Glasgow and they used to play music over the tannoy this was one tune that used to be played all the time
As a title tune to a crime series very uncommon. Absolutely adorable music. One of those tunes you have in your ear even after the first time you heard it. But now my personal impression: to me it sounds like the perfect christmas tune!
I remember this series and the great theme tune as a 70's kid. Barry Foster was a terrific actor. Last night there was a 'reboot' on ITV which was absolute rubbish. Why remake a classic anyway, the original series is on Talking Pictures.
@@tinahardman9805 Thanks, I wasn't sure and it was a long time ago, but by the power of RUclips and IMDB, I was wrong. I was remembering Barry Foster in the 1990's series.
@@karendorner5316 Me too Karen and a fab time to grow up and lovely memories of my parents too. Did u like Crown court and Emergency ward 10.Kind regards Glynn and greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🤝
@@robbieedward8773 Hi Robbie, Thanks for your reply you are so right my favourite advert was when the race horse refused to race out of the starting stalls and the jockey lit up a cigar too.Do u like the theme to World of Sport with the legendary Dickie Davis .Kind regards Glynn and greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🤝
If you can listen to this without tapping your foot, you must be stone deaf. Even if you only saw Van der Valk once, you;d forever remember this tine and associate it with that programme forever, long after any plots or storylines.
Great song. I had heard it in the early 70s for KLM airlines commercial. Until today nobody could tell me the name of the song. I do not remember the tv series mentioned here. It looks like an English show. I am not sure we got it in Canada although we got many English series in the 70s and 80s. I mostly liked the comedies though like Benny Hill and Some Mothers Do Have Them and Man About The House. I remember seeing Barry Foster in the Hitchcock movie Frenzy though where he played a bad guy. I am glad to finally know the name of this song.
A smashing, uplifting tune. Thank you for posting it here. Looking back, I was a proto-EU fan even at 10 years old when I used to watch this programme. I remember being swept up in the romance of it, and the EU I love today. I'm learning to play it on piano at the moment.
I suppose that in every age new patterns of thought emerge, the development of which is always resisted by some. At the moment, today's new patterns are called "woke agenda", but if patterns of thought were not changing, it would be the first time in history that that is the case!
@@MaxPJR-jy6th Me too Max , a fabulous track and detective series too. Sadly it was on after 9 sir.Also remember Z. CARS n luved the theme and Dixon of Dock Green ' these 2 were on much earlier. A fabulous time then if only we could turn time back to, n Fab to be young and luvly memories of my parents too. Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK and Aston Villa fan since 1968 🤝
From the very first time i heard this played when i was young it gave me the love of all types of music and the love of life . Thanks for posting this on youtube i thought i would ever hear this again in my life time
Couldn't sleep for coughing last night and for some reason this tune came into my head. It took me a while to remember the name of the show and I just HAD to RUclips it this morning. Great tune. Another one I love is the music to the London Marathon and I was surprised to learn it was written by Ron Goodwin for the film The Trap.
Thanks for sharing: this remind me my fabulous Seventies when, through Van der Valk's adventures, I'm learning something about Netherlands. Greetings from Italy.
Rest in peace Barry This was a great series and an unforgettable theme tune Bring back the good times not like the so called celebrities today They are nothing and nobody
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Ahhhh, the beautiful, beautiful good old days, for pity's sake let me go back there now and never leave.
Take me with you please, life was so simple I had a great childhood. I was born 1971.
A d take me 2 same wi me great days n never no mo ey but happy I was born 1969
I was studying engineering in the 1970s when our maths professor, right in the middle of a lecture, stopped and complained that for days now he simply couldn't get this theme tune out of his head. Some of the students then started humming it and before long all 300 of us joined in imitating trumpets and violins.
Some of these childhood tunes give me joy in my heart.... Would be great to be a kid again 😁👍
You can still be a kid at heart!🤪
Same here!, brings you back.
Me and my father loved this series! And what a tune for a television series!!!!!
Miss marble theme tune ruclips.net/video/J9ILsxqdK7E/видео.htmlsi=sqAikVu_xIWIwDIj
This is the greatest theme tune in the history of the Universe.
Try the theme from the movie "Serpico".
Totally. My Dad loved it so much and this is what we’ll be playing at the end of the funeral for him on June 2 ❤He’d approve.
Yeah I’m with you, but The Persuaders is up there with it!
One of MANY great theme tunes of other series at the time 😊👍💖👏
Takes me right back to 1972 when I was nineteen. Right back there, feel it, smell it am absorbed by it.
The first TV theme song of a TV series to reach number 1 in the UK charts. ☺️
Just how damn catchy is this tune? Gives you a feel good factor.
it's based on dutch folkloristic music (the clog dance)
have you heard Sibelius - Karelia?
Damn right
whenever this World is a Madhouse, I come back to this magnificent beautiful tune, back to a gentler time & place, filled with hope...😔
Why am I seeking out and listening to the theme tune to Van der Valk at 1.35 in the morning on the 7th Jan... because this music is a time capsule back to when life (although far from perfect) hadn’t deteriorated into a sad shadow of what it once was ...and this music just confirms that.
Nah m8
There’s a reason for freedom of religion.
Coronavirus is making life even worse.. I think we are done for now as regards happiness. Too much "progress" has caused a change for the worst.
DesertRose122 Sadly I agree. I’ve thought the same for quite a while - and I can’t see how we’re going to get out of the current situation for a long time.
Dear Lyne what a much beautiful time xxx
@On Holiday what a load of dog vomit
Barry Foster was a brilliant actor sadly missed he was in so many cult tv shows and films
Brings a tear to my of a mixed childhood. Watching the series again it's clear how much John Thaw borrowed from the superb Barry Foster in playing Morse.
I loved this tune in 1973 when I was 8 years old and I still love it today at age 53.
billy barkly Im 52 and know exactly what you mean always be with me
you must be the sane age as me.....
I was 6 and it reminds me of my nan bless her, great tune 👍
I was 6. Tonight I’ve played it on repeat walking home. Can’t even remember what triggered the memory and don’t care. Loved it.
@@johnnyboy-pb6zw When I wrote the comment was 2 years ago. I was born in 1965.
Oh, I always LOVED this theme song when I would see Van Der Valk as a kid! Good memories and it's lovely to hear it again!!
I'm really happy that I'm not the only person who likes this music.
So nice to hear this Van der Valk theme music, brings back old memories of this detective series we used to watch in the 1970's.
I was an American at the Thamesmead School in Shepperton-on-Thames in 1973 and loved this show having previously lived in Amsterdam. Every day during lunch some radio station played this and some kids -- at the time to me giant sixth formers -- played this at full blast which filled the schoolyard. A happy moment for me then and a happy memory now.
One of the best TV theme tunes ever!
And it went on to score a number 1 hit,didn't it?
Agreed , and this is so me and my nan, beautifil!
This and Shoestring
My all time favourite ring tone
The theme from Who Pays the Ferryman? is great too.
I loved this in 1973 when I was 11 and I still love it today at 58
Incredible!!! I heard this in my childhood and have been searching all my life for the title of this piece of music....thank God... I now know it.
So glad that now have 'it took me ages to find it' so I thought I would post on line for anyone who wanted it.
very cool piece of music, up there with “take 5” & “a swinging safari” just entered as my new cell phone ring …
I had this tune playing in my head regularly for years .my mum put it on a mix tape for me when I was a kid and I always liked it .I tried whistling it into Shazam but it couldn’t find it . Move on to this evening I put on Peter Kay’s phoenix nights and they have it playing in the background I go to Shazam and there it’s is and all
Of a sudden memories come flooded back to a marching band I was in when I was ten which played van der valk but 37 years later I had completely forgotten this till tonight. I google the name scroll down a few till I find this RUclips video of it and now here I am finishing my little story with a thank you , thank you Peter Kay, Shazam,RUclips and the person that uploaded this
What a superb track. I'm 58 and I can still play the tune note perfect from memory. Such is the power of that melody.
Whenever I think of Amsterdam this wonderful, joyful and stirring piece of music comes into my head!
Ditto😊
Me too. We lived in there for a few years. Loved that song.
I was born 1971 and I can remember hearing this theme tune but not the programme so much. Listening to this now reminds me of when life was so simple and happy.
Me too. Hear hear
Brilliant series. The late great Barry Foster. Thanks ever so much to Talking Pictures TV channel for reshowing all episodes on Friday nights in 2020....
Yes. I am watching every episode with such a happy feeling inside. Reminds of my youth. A better time.
Rerunning on TPTV on Tuesdays in March 👍
I taught myself this tune on the recorder when I was 5, and can still play it - 😍
Same here! We'd occasionally play, en mass at assembly. Sometimes it sounded absolutely awful!
Stop showing off.
asseyez vous ah c'est bien non cherche .Tres bien
Record it and show the world your talent
So did I. How about a zoom ensemble?
I don't think most people realise the value of cheerful music like this. It really is uplifting, and there are good musical reasons why. A lot of music, whether modern or classical is just music to cut your throat by. This happy tune should be compulsory listening for those feeling depressed!
Suzanne McMann how about the theme from Lovejoy?
You nailed it, I like all things Dutch any way and this certainly lifts the mood.
Makes much sense
Agree
Well said. I agree.
I was a European truck driver. Every chance i had i would park up in Weesp, one stop from
Amsterdam central station. I recognised all the filming locations. I saw the drey horses delivering
the beer to the bars where they filmed.
A lot of weekends i would sit outside drinking coffee trying to get into Ann Franks house, but could
not get in because of German students being told about the Frank family.
The Dutch people were so amazing.
I once got back from Amsterdam. Washed,changed and flew back to Amsterdam with the ex.
I flew back to Liverpool, got home, got the truck and i was back in Amsterdam the night after.
I used to blast out the theme all the time.
As i worked from Oswestry i was stunned that Simon Park was from the Oswestry area himself,
the guy who wrote the theme tune.
They don`t make T V like this anymore.
Such an uplifting piece of music, never fails to pick me up when I'm down. I feel as If I've been transported to a world of sheer joy. Music doesn't get much better than this.
Tears in my eyes, when i hear it. A hero of my youth, i will never forget.
2019 still love this
Happy childhood memories😊😊😊😊
Me too.
Yep.
Me too mate. I was recently lucky enough to get the complete series from Amazon. Great deal, great series and great company too.
Dave ONeill : Fantastic exciting stirring theme. They don't make em like that any more.
It does indeed bring back innocent childhood memories of running down the street with your school mates on a cold dark early November evening knocking on people's doors and running away. There was always one tripped and fell. We would all stop in our tracks to help him or her up whilst giggling. The magic of childhood. Oh to travel back in time.
Me too - happy 10 year old
Proper earworm of a tune..
I defy anyone not to find themselves whistling this after a few listens
loved this music when i was little.still gives me goosebumps when i hear it, i loved the 70s :o)
Ditto
tina sheppard ditto!!
tina sheppard Goosebumps indeed! Thrilled to hear this again. I used to get so cross when the music faded away. I see the composer Jan Stoeckart died in January of this year.
You will, then, remember the theme tunes to Randal and Hopkirk ( Deceased ), Follyfoot, The Onedin Line ( which is a lovely shortened version of Khachaturian`s "Spartacus," well worth listening to in YT ), and the great theme tune of The Persuaders ( Roger Moore and Tony Curtis - as were ).
Just cheery...
Why ITV didn't use Eye Level as the theme for the 2020 Van Der Valk reboot will remain one of the mysteries of the ages, literally one of the best theme tunes ever...
They said it was too dated. I disagree.
But the modern theme does allude to it - there are little snippets of the 'Eye Level' music throughout.
@@janeCate1 yes a really really little snippet, yet still just enough to highlight what we are missing :-)
They did but faintly if you listened closely but not the origional one it was a remix but faint
I think “Eye Level” is one the best TV Tunes
You're absolutely right
Loved this programme as a young teen in the early 70's and of course an unforgettable theme tune to go with it.
Barry Foster is one of the best actors I've ever seen on stage (without ever trying to steal a scene, one couldn't walk out without remembering HIM). He brings a great humanity to the series which is repeated on TV with its glorious theme. Matt Munro's "And you smiled" is a loving joy. Munro has the same quality with his voice. Miss them.
I learnt this on the recorder in the 70's bahahaha
This kind of music never grows old....
You're right! Calssics NEVER go out of style...they're timeless!
It IS old. There is a passage in "The Marriage of Figaro" that sounds quite similar. We might talk about Simon Parks Orchestra feat. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
@@TheWuschelMUC I'm aware of what age the music is ...and I wasn't talking about how many years ago it was..
Ah, you decided to be the unoriginal person doing the 'never grows old' comment, I see. You keep hanging in there for that thought of your own, it could happen any day.
Great tv series from the seventies . Barry Foster was brilliant as van der valk and the lovely Joanna Dunham was in the later episodes.Pure class!
I remember going out and buying this single. I still have it. Best theme ever.
THIS MUSIC REMINDS ME OF HAPPY TIMES A BRILLIANT PICE OF MUSIC AND A BRILLIANT SHOW YOU DONT GET QUALITY SHOWS AND MUSIC LIKE THIS ANYMORE
This music always lifts me up. RIP John Barry Foster (21 August 1927 - 11 February 2002)
I'm a brilliantly amateur rock guitarist (in the sense that I'm no good but I love music) and this is extraordinary. I keep playing it over and over.
Eye level the composition for a rainy day. Brings joy and spiritual rising...
Oh memories of the 70's.
When I hear this I do remember as a young dutch guy the tv-series. In "my" Amsterdam but with english speaking people.. and the white dutch police VW Kever (Beetle).. memory lane...
Fond memories, mum loved this tune - god bless you mum, rip
Hey same here, so did mine, rip
My mum loved it too. She said it reminded her of the Tetley Time of Day advert !
Mine too. 😢
I was hearing in Mexico when I was 15 , now I part of my life.
Same here but nan for me xxx
I used to watch this series in my flat in Torquay. What fantastic memories!
A mighty fine piece of music.
Great theme tune,brings back memories of when i was a kid.
Marc Law ditto!!
It's brings back lots for to amazing themes tune 'he also sings it to.
Love this tune it's so uplifting. I'm old enough to remember the TV series too it bring back fond memories - thanks for posting it
Thank you. Im in my mid 40's now and whenever i hear this it reminds me of my childhood..a young boy sitting with my mom and dad. It fills me with overwhelming joy and emotion. Memories are such wonderfull things.
So glad I brought back good memories for you ladybrasic
And I remember it as a parent, sitting with my children watching it :-).... same age ( me = your parents)
Well put. That's what it does for me too, and I'm in my 60s. It's complete joy and warmth and comfort to hear it again - that feeling of being encircled with happiness.
Same
A teacher played this to us once in infant school back in the early 80's and it stuck with me like an ear worm ever since.
The best theme tune. Particularly towards the end as it all really ramps up 🥰 thank you for posting.
Absolutely loved this piece......
I rewatched the series recently and it held up reasonably well despite the settings and costumes being dated. It was well acted and very gritty.
I loved this series and the music. Still gives me happy chills!
It sends those same happy shivers up my spine
This takes me back to my senior school days mid seventies...played before the annual school play..when every one were taking there seats and settling in....brilliant.
God I remember my dad watching this. And the Onedin Line. The Brothers etc.
YOU DONT GET FABULOUS MUSIC LIKE THIS ANYMORE I WAS 13 AND AT 62 STILL LOVE THIS MUSIC AND MISS THE SHOW THANKS BARRY YOUR SADLY MISS BY MANY R. I. P.
This was a stirring theme during my childhood and it always reminds me of my Amsterdam trip in 1987, which almost turned into an even bigger trip thanks to the sales guy outside the railway station!
trip meaning drug trip...
Andrew Buckley how sad that people only relate visiting Amsterdam with drugs. It's a fantastic city with amazing culture and architecture. Fucking wasters.
The theme tune was a one hit wonder
That's a bit unfair. How many theme tunes is a TV show supposed to have?
One i guess but some have two like the UK comedy 'Only Fools And Horses' .
Reached number one in the charts; quite a magnificent achievement.
I remember buying the 45 single record of this when it came out in about 1973. And I've still got it !!
I've still got he single and I don't know what to do with it! It's also on Spotify
@@heatherberry2852 Put it on a turntable and play it
One of my Dads favourites. Always remember that tune. Stirring and emotional. 😥
Classic and great tune, played it in my Junior School Orchestra early 1970s, I was violin. Currently watching the series on TV at the moment, today’s TV programmes don’t come close.
That I can recall, the original Van Der Valk series did not air in the US during it's original run, but I do recall the theme being used at the time in the background of TV and radio advertising for KLM. It is a catchy, memorable tune that has stuck with me for all these years; an earworm that, even still, would wake up at the sight of KLM aircraft and stay with me for days. I had not been familiar with the original series, but the portion of Eye Level subtly used in the music for the recent revival of Van Der Valk immediately caught my ear. It's great to be reintroduced to this fine piece of music in its entirety after 40-50 years.
In some shots Barry Foster has got a resemblance to Jon/Sean Pertwee,anyone else agree?
Yes I see what you mean.
Yes I agree too.
I thought it was just me........Phew!
I read an amusing quip long ago by Barry Foster along the lines of "if I hadn't looked so much like Jon Pertwee I might have got more work - people kept getting us confused". What he said was actually very funny. I tried to find the quote just now but couldn't. So yes, David, you're right.
It would be nice to source it out,thank you anyway for this fantastic contribution.......Dave.
My Dad was from Holland and even though Mum was an Aussie, she loved visiting. Van der Valk was shown really late at night on Australian tv and she and I used to sit up to watch it. Happy memories
This Track Would Definitely Have to be One Of My Old Time Favourites love That Theme song ❤
It is always a pleasure to listen to this classic piece of music from a series set in such a wonderful city, Amsterdam.
great theme - great show - both worthy of repeating
Darren Wison back then they knew how to create great stuff
Thought exactly the same thing.
On Freeview Channel 81 on Mondays at 9.00pm they have started repeating episodes
@@theweemanfromgordon Back on tuesday nights from 1 March 👍
What a great theme tune & program was brilliant
One of the most iconic TV themes in history and its spine tingling good.
I can remember in my teens( 25yrs ago) when i used to walk through Central Station in Glasgow and they used to play music over the tannoy this was one tune that used to be played all the time
Glasgow sounds a quality station!
Has to be THE BEST theme tune ever written! Got this on a 45 back in 1972. Few modern compositions can touch it. Keith
As a title tune to a crime series very uncommon. Absolutely adorable music. One of those tunes you have in your ear even after the first time you heard it.
But now my personal impression: to me it sounds like the perfect christmas tune!
I remember this series and the great theme tune as a 70's kid. Barry Foster was a terrific actor. Last night there was a 'reboot' on ITV which was absolute rubbish. Why remake a classic anyway, the original series is on Talking Pictures.
If I remember correctly, didn't Kenneth Branagh do a version in the late 1980's/early 1990's?
The reboot should be booted and never see light of day again.
@@carlatkins2228 I don't know if Kenneth Branagh did Van der Valk, not sure about that. He did Wallander but that was much later on.
@@tinahardman9805 Thanks, I wasn't sure and it was a long time ago, but by the power of RUclips and IMDB, I was wrong.
I was remembering Barry Foster in the 1990's series.
Nothing beats the original,rehashes should be banned, Barry will be spinning!
I have had this as a ringtone on every mobile phone i've owned (which is a lot).
Now you've given me the idea........ but have to find how to do it first!!
www.dropbox.com/s/ayel1pa98ftf7gt/Van%20der%20Valk%20.m4r?dl=0 (iPhone ringtone) or www.dropbox.com/s/25f7cnx1cpjwy4y/VanderValk.mp3?dl=0 (android)
The seventies and eighties were a great time, when the theme music was as iconic as the show itself.
SO TRUE !! So many happy memories. x
@@karendorner5316 Me too Karen and a fab time to grow up and lovely memories of my parents too. Did u like Crown court and Emergency ward 10.Kind regards Glynn and greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🤝
yes and even the adverts on tv was good as well. like russ abbott on hamlet cigars.
@@robbieedward8773 Hi Robbie, Thanks for your reply you are so right my favourite advert was when the race horse refused to race out of the starting stalls and the jockey lit up a cigar too.Do u like the theme to World of Sport with the legendary Dickie Davis .Kind regards Glynn and greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🤝
@@glynnevans1851 loved the theme eye level.. from the old tv series in the 70's . been listening to it more during this pandemic lockdown .
If you can listen to this without tapping your foot, you must be stone deaf. Even if you only saw Van der Valk once, you;d forever remember this tine and associate it with that programme forever, long after any plots or storylines.
Sunday afternoon - June 2022… anyone else listening to bring back memories ?
Just got back from the my first visit to Amsterdam and I had this playing constantly on my iPhone as I walked around the city. Great tune!
Red Light area again John?
Brilliant idea. I`m going later this month. Guess what im going to download! Thanks
He was a legend. Something very special and incredibly gifted in all genres :-)
Great song. I had heard it in the early 70s for KLM airlines commercial. Until today nobody could tell me the name of the song. I do not remember the tv series mentioned here. It looks like an English show. I am not sure we got it in Canada although we got many English series in the 70s and 80s. I mostly liked the comedies though like Benny Hill and Some Mothers Do Have Them and Man About The House. I remember seeing Barry Foster in the Hitchcock movie Frenzy though where he played a bad guy. I am glad to finally know the name of this song.
A smashing, uplifting tune. Thank you for posting it here.
Looking back, I was a proto-EU fan even at 10 years old when I used to watch this programme.
I remember being swept up in the romance of it, and the EU I love today.
I'm learning to play it on piano at the moment.
Wish we could go back to these days. Great programs, no woke agenda, just good tv
I suppose that in every age new patterns of thought emerge, the development of which is always resisted by some. At the moment, today's new patterns are called "woke agenda", but if patterns of thought were not changing, it would be the first time in history that that is the case!
Thankfully you can watch it all on RUclips or DVD. You don’t have to watch any modern TV. All the old stuff is still available.
Totally agree... We just bought the whole collection of dallas.....
what has this got to do with the woke AGENDA?
@@Djr67 Like being able yo voice an opinion without some snowflake getting upset over it.
I remember me as a young child laying in bed and hearing my dad watching the series and I used to sing along with the intro
It's a amazing turn and great program 'they certainly don't make like that anymore.
@@traceybadman9239 very true
@@MaxPJR-jy6th Me too Max , a fabulous track and detective series too. Sadly it was on after 9 sir.Also remember Z. CARS n luved the theme and Dixon of Dock Green ' these 2 were on much earlier. A fabulous time then if only we could turn time back to, n Fab to be young and luvly memories of my parents too. Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK and Aston Villa fan since 1968 🤝
I used to lay in a youth band and this was what we used to start the march with as it got everyone swinging I love this
I was in a marching band called The Haverettes and we used to play this tune and march along. I loved it then and still love it. Goosebumps for me too
I never saw the TV series but just love this music.
Heather Yovanoff is
The whole series had a very haunting atmosphere.
The series is playing at the moment on UK TV channel Talking Pictures.
www.dropbox.com/s/uumsmvp5qrt7lgl/EyeLevelVanderValktheme.mp3?dl=0
From the very first time i heard this played when i was young it gave me the love of all types of music and the love of life . Thanks for posting this on youtube i thought i would ever hear this again in my life time
Couldn't sleep for coughing last night and for some reason this tune came into my head. It took me a while to remember the name of the show and I just HAD to RUclips it this morning. Great tune. Another one I love is the music to the London Marathon and I was surprised to learn it was written by Ron Goodwin for the film The Trap.
Darn right is the best one ever orchestrated- I remember this as an 8 year old and inspired me to play the piano
I had a friend at school who bought this. The flip side was the theme music for Crown Court.
I used to love crown court. I was newly married and jobless so used to watch it every lunchtime.
Lovely tune I always play this loud!!!!!
In Sydney Australia in the 70s this song was a staple on 2CH. I was a child and this tune just reminds me of 2CH. And John Pearce talkback.😆😆😆😆
Wonderful theam tune I whistle it regularly and loved the program as a child
Boy this brings back my childhood
Thanks for sharing: this remind me my fabulous Seventies when, through Van der Valk's adventures, I'm learning something about Netherlands. Greetings from Italy.
Wow that brings back memories good days everybody happy not like now
this bring back the memories of sat round the tv with the parents whating this, the tune is awesome, always loved it, classic
this series was my first insight in to Holland as a kid
So relaxing. I could listen to this all day.
This and The Pursuaders are the greatest theme tunes ever!
Rest in peace Barry This was a great series and an unforgettable theme tune Bring back the good times not like the so called celebrities today They are nothing and nobody