Disconnected portable HD - Removed song names still remain in iTunes

There was a portable HD connected to my computer for some time that had additional music on it from what is actually on my computer.
After removing the portable HD, the song names for all the songs that were on the portable... still remain in my itunes... but of course will not play because the HD is not connected. They now all have little "!" marks beside them (meaning, i guess, 'wont play')
There were a few thousand songs removed, and a few thousand songs still remain...
My question is... is there any way to remove all 'song-less song titles' from my itunes in a couple of clicks rather than going through and deleting each individual one?

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