Creating albums and moving individual tracks

I have quite a few compulation CDs that were created in the mid to late 80s and when I imported them into my iTunes library they were imported as individual tracks with no MP3tag info. Is it possible to create an album and move these individual tracks in that newly created album? I know that I can add the song title artist and album name to the tracks but I cannot fiqure out how to create an empty album to put them into. Please help.

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
There's no such thing as an empty album in iTunes. Simply select some tracks that you want to link together, *Get Info*., give them a distinct Album title and set the *Album Artist*. For a compilation you should also set *Part of a compilation* to Yes on the Options tab.
For more info. see http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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Mark all titles of that album (shift or cmd click)
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