How do I keep iTuunes from splitting up 1 album into multiple albums

I have a number of albums where the main artist is perfroming with other muscians listed with the title of the song.  When I import these albums into iTunes, it takes one album and splits it up into 10-12 different albums; 1 album for each song.  How do I keep iTumnes from segregating songs that are really all part of one album?  I don't want to to edit each song to remove the second artist, in order to re-integrate the songs back into one album.  What a pain.  Help.
Thanks,
Olyduck
PS:  I never did encounter this issue when using Windows Media Player.

The sort fields control where in a sorted list a given value appears, e.g. you can ensure that David Bowie is sorted under B instead of D by setting the sort artist, sort album artist and sort composer to "Bowie" or "Bowie, David" where relevant. Experience suggests however that you shouldn't try to fix multiple album listings by giving different values the same sort value. It may sometimes work in iTunes, only to fail when you put those tracks on a portable device or add another album by the same artist.
tt2

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