Well, I'd better add some more about the Glasgow Folk Club. One book credits Norman Buchan and Morris Blythman with starting it, but they were both school teachers who encouraged/taught some of the youngsters like me who started the club.
[Morris had in 1956 started the Allan Glen's Ballad & Blues Club at break time in the school where he taught and I attended.
Norman brought along young singers in Rutherglen Academy where he taught. I don't know what his sessions in the school were called or when they started.]
The trams rattling along the Trongate would drown out singers in the Glasgow Club, till three weeks in two university types brought in a thing on a pole and a box that plugged in to the mains, and singers became louder than the trams.
Our first guest, eight weeks in, was Jimmie MacBeath. I was the treasurer and paid him £8, more than he had ever being paid for singing in his life till then. He called me MR MCVICAR, I was an 18 year old who was in awe of him.
Ewan