Combining songs into one album

I previously imported music from my Music CD Soundtrack: Forrest Gump (has multiple disks) while I was on a Windows platform (not sure if that will matter considering my issue, but wanted to give that info.)
Now, I've imported all my music on to my recently purchased MacBook. I had the same issue on my Windows iTunes, but never resolved it.
I have, let's say 20 songs I selected from the soundtrack, but, they have placed them in different albums. Consequently, only a few have found the artwork to go with the album. I tried switching the album name to the same album name that had artwork. I tried dragging those songs to the album with artwork.
Still, I cannot combine all the songs under one album. If I wanted to play all the songs from my Forrest Gump soundtrack, I'd have to go to about 10 different albums, and, as I said before, I could not get artwork for a majority of the songs.
What do I need to do to combine these songs all under one album (FYI: for some reason the two artworks I did get downloaded, were actually two different covers, one correct and one that was still a Forrest Gump cover, but a different one than I had on my original CD).

If this is a compilation album where you have many artists on one album then you probably need to toggle the compilation checkbox at the bottom of the Get Info window for the tracks on the album. Highlight all the tracks, Get Info, then check the compilation box says yes.

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