Last December, I was listening to Holly Jolly X'masu's podcast regarding the 1987 compilation album "Mint Sound's Christmas Album". There were quite a few interesting tracks including one by a band called Go-Go 3 titled "Yumemiru X'mas"（夢見る X'mas...Dreaming Christmas）, but alas I couldn't track that particular one down on YouTube.
There isn't a whole lot written about this group online on any one site so I've had to pull in the various scraps of information, and if indeed by the name of the band, there are three members, I could only find two of them according to Discogs: Takako Ono（小野隆子）and Tomoe Eno（江野智絵）. From different sites, they've been described in the following genres: rockabilly, punk, garage rock, garage punk and Group Sounds girl rock, for example.
But from listening to one track, "Baby, Good Night", from their 1988 LP, "Everybody Prefers", Go-Go 3 sounds like a cheerful pop/rock band along the lines of Princess Princess or a really pop Shonen Knife. The squeaky English-language interlude did have me thinking 1950s and 1960s, too. A couple of sites have mentioned some Motown influence with "Baby, Good Night".
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