Update:
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Below are the opening lines to twenty genuine, certified Hit songs. Your task: name the song and the artist who performed the song.

Here we go!

1. Jessie is a friend Platosearwax
2. Girl, close your eyes, let that rhythm get into to you Paige
3. We don't need no education The Modesto Kid
4. Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one. shortstop
5. This thing called love RobC
6. Wait a minute baby, stay with me a while Paige
7. Young man, there's no need to feel down. Platosearwax
8. It's not far down to paradise matt m
9. Spring was never waiting for us, girl matt m
10. Is there nothing I can say, nothing I can do matt m
11. He came from somewhere back in her long ago matt m
12. Some say love, it is a river Platosearwax
13. Our love is alive and so we begin matt m
14. Here come the jesters, 1,2,3 Platosearwax
15. Your love is like a tidal wave, spinning over my head Platosearwax
16. When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful Platosearwax
17. Somebody's gonna hurt someone shortstop
18. Got a call from an old friend, we used to be real close ChrisR
19. We got somethin, we both know it, we don't talk too much about it Platosearwax
20. On a warn summer's evenin', on a train bound for nowhere matt m

Hints:

1. There is a theme here. Maybe even two themes, if you're being picky.
2. The themes are : 1980 and 1981.
3. 9. Not many songs mention 'cake'.
4. 10. Not many songs mention 'chargers'.

Leave your answers in comments. I’ll cross them off as people get them.

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