Vocals.
Known as “Goody” to her friends, Lillian Goode was one of pianist Palmer Johnson’s favorite vocalists in the early days of Seattle jazz. She sang at Frank Sebastian’s Cotton Club, in Los Angeles, before coming to the Northwest. In 1920, she was singing with Frank Waldron at the opening of the Lodge Cafe, in Vancouver, B.C., and could be seen again with Waldron in 1936 at the Apex Club on a bill that also included entertainer Eddie Rucker. Goode was caught in a raid in 1927 while performing at an unnamed speakeasy on 12th Avenue and her name turns up again in 1931 at the Club Royale, a basement boite in the Chinatown International District, working with Joe Darensbourg and Gerald Wells. In 1933 she was at a Broadway Hall show featuring the other two top singers in town, Zelma Winslow and Evelyn Williamson and in 1937 she and Winslow appeared at the Ubangi.
Jackson Street After Hours (print); https://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/the-origins-of-jazz-in-vancouver/