Can I combine or merge songs into a single album?

When I view my albums in iTunes, many are fragmented into several albums. This is especially true for albums that contain songs by several artists, like "Saturday Night Fever" but also for albums by the same artist like "Future Shock" by Herbie Hancock. the track "Rockit" appears as the single entry (track 1) for one album, and tracks 2-6 appear as a second album.
I've tried dragging and cut/pasting and can't seem to get the songs onto one album. This is especially frustrating for albums like "Saturday Night Fever" where it appears in iTunes as almost a dozen albums with one track each.
Message was edited by: lbeck

This shouldn't have been that complicated, but I had to stumble across the tick box for "is compilation"
* I have "edit/preferences.../advanced/group compilations when browsing" box checked but the individual tracks in a compilation still show up as separate albums. Didn't help
* Got joy only after fincing and checkint the compilations box in the GEt Info/Info box for each song in the compilation
Thanks for getting me on the right road. The iTunes HELP files were no help

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