Cannot remove songs from Itunes

Has anyone encountered this? I just bought a new computer and tranferred my library. The songs are in and they play fine, but I cannot delete songs I don't like anymore. I press Shift+Delete or just delete as I did in my last computer and it will just go back a song but not delete the song I want removed. Please help! I don't want ABBA songs in my library!

You cannot manually add or delete from smart playlists (they appear in purple in my iTunes and at the top of all the playlists).  Smart playlist content is generated by the rules controlling the playlist.  Right (control+) click on a smart playlist to see the rules.

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