Whilst chasing down some California research i came across a 'trail of breadcrumbs' on Lebam.

Roburt's original 2017 post provided a good first pass so i thought i'd share the new stuff. https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/379012-lebam-records-music/

You may not have noticed, but Lebam is Mabel spelled backwards.

Mabel Leona Hobson Betz was a theatrical agent, A&R manager, Officer of Associated Songwriter Club of the Air ( along with Charls M. Brandt, Brandt records and studio), she was a publisher, owner of  Lebam & State Calla records. Operating from Sacrimento, (State Capital of California, so State Calla).

Sacrimento music addresses for Mabel were 849 Fourth St, 2033 Burnett Way and in Los angeles 2661 Clyde Ave.The latter address is also attributed to Frank J. Wedlaw. His relationship with Mabel is thought (by me) to be wife or maybe 2nd wife...but there's no certainty on this except for a 1997 property dispute filing in Oregon that lists Frank J. & Mabel Wedlaw.

Remembering that most of the work goes back to the 40's & 50's, Mabel's copyrights are full of lyric and music pseudo's and only the artist names remain true.

I've not been able to attribute Lawana, but guess (LAW is from WedLAW and maybe LawANA is from ANdy Belvin).

Edited Thursday at 09:541 day by Kenb
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The Sacramento music (soul) scene seems to be very little documented. Kenb made one small mistake above -- MABEL (LEBAM) operated out of 849 4th Avenue (the Aves run E-W, the Streets run N-S). This property is a residential bungalow, in a residential area, so I guess it was her home. The other Sacramento address is in more of a commercial type area. She seems to have been more active in the music biz (in Sacramento) in the 1940's / 50's. She was also connected with Movieland Records (as well as State Capitol), so I guess this marked her move to LA (as that label was based out of Hollywood.

Sacramento, although the state capitol, was somewhat off the beaten track music wise -- especially soul music wise. One of the Precisions moved there but he'd given up music by then. A local (white) radio DJ was active in the recording biz & had opened a recoding studio in the outskirts of the city by 1970. He cut quite a bit of stuff at his Heavenly Record Studio in the 70's (including soul tracks by the East Wind Band and Swoop). But by the time he got active, Mabel was long gone.