eric the red wrote: "It was all good except the White Heather Club, which was appalling..."

Appalling is too good a word to use. It was like watching a car crash of a previous life. Truth is, though, it was mainstream entertainment that used trad. music - and that's the closest TV got to broadcasting folk music in 1960.

The "Tonight" prog. was great, though, with its regulars like Jimmie & Robin, and Cy Grant (?), and, occasionally, visiting American singers. I well remember seeing and hearing for the first time, blues players. One blues pianist, whose name I can't remember, did a song called "West Texas Woman". Not bad for early evening TV.