Can't synch certain songs

I can't get certain songs and tones to synch to my iPhone 4S. They Are showing in my iTunes on my PC. 2 are recent purchases and 2 are old tones that disappeared on me.

Hi Jason and thanks for offering to help. I did read all of the threads in the Community about this issue, before I posted and did a clean reinstall and also turned off local files, but nothing worked. As I was disappointed, I didn't log in for a couple of days, hence my late reply to you, but I've just had a quick play of a few songs in Spotify and it's now working!! Fingers crossed it stays that way. So I'm not sure why or how, but it all seems to be perfectly fine now. Thanks again for the offer of help. EnchantedMuse :-)

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