How can I delete duplicate music albums from my iPad 2?

After installing iOS 7, I needed to sync some itunes music to my iPad2. After running the sync process, I wound up with 64 albums instead of the 24 listed in my itunes account. For some very strange reason, the music albums were duplicated (I am NOT making this up!!).
I can only delete ONE song at a time, BUT when I delete a song from one album, it is also deleted from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th duplicate albums. I am reading to toss itunes and the iPad both!!! If I didn't love reading books on my iPad, I think I would toss it at this point. If I continued to delete one song at a time, wouldn't I eventually delete ALL the songs???? ARRRRRGH!!
In addition, I have been searching for 2 days for any other iPad users who may have had this happen to them, but I have found nothing on the discussion site. ALL I have found is the suggestion to delete ONE song at a time. HELP!! I have seen questions similar to this regarding iPhones and iPods.

I have same problem, you can only delete one song at a time but if you chose the one without the icloud on the right, slide finger from right to left on the song, red delete box appears, click delete, this will remove that song only and leave the other icloud songs in place. Long job, put coffee machine on, worked for me, good luck

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