 On "The Last of the Summer Wine", the Mike Sammes Singers contributed the "Summer Wine" song over the opening credits of the Christmas 1983 episode "Getting Sam Home".Sammes died at the age of 73 in May 2001, several months after a fall from which he never fully recovered.Johnny Trunk, of Trunk Records, was able to recover a number of reel-to-reel tapes from Sammes' house (despite it having been ransacked by house clearance), which he went on to compile as "Music for Biscuits", so-named because it featured 1960s/1970s advertising jingles for Tuc biscuits, etc.