Embed album artwork to single track?

I know that album artwork can be embedded into an album by selecting all the tracks, right clicking, selecting get info and then pasting the picture into the artwork box within the info tab.  However, I have some single tracks that are proving to be a challenge.  When I right click, and select get info, the info tab doesn't have an artwork box.  It does have an artwork tab, but pasting a picture in that doesn't result in the artwork getting embedded in the file.
What am I missing...is there a way to embed artwork in a single track?
Thanks

It is a minor inconvienence depending on how small your library is. It is not very logical for people with large libraries to copy paste 800 times to get every album its artwork in id3. I was able to find a solid 3rd party solution http://itsfv.sourceforge.net/ However I think iTunes should have an option to embed the artwork and write the artwork to the album's folder. I guess this has been more of a feature request than a question.

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