Among the television shows there was the massively popular the white heather club (BBC TV, 1958-68)

and julie felix ('britain's first lady of folk')was always on the telly at the end of the sixties, early 'seventies, mostly on the BBC.

so too were robin hall and jimmy macgregor, especially on The White Heather Club and Tonight (both BBC).

and in 1963 there was ABC TV's Hullabaloo, which was, er, fab.