Dragging songs to playlist

I've created a new playlist in iTunes and have started draging my desired songs from my music library to the playlist successfully.
Then I decided to purchase a song from iTunes, which I discovered could not be dragged to my playlist. So I went back to dragging over my already existing songs (mostly not purchased) but now NOTHING will drop into my playlist!
Why? Very frustrating as it was all working fine 10 minutes ago! Any help would be great...

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