Library Organisation - HELP!

Hi,
I have recently imported several tracks into iTunes.
However, they show up as below in the Name and Artist columns...
e.g.
Name Artist
Aaliyah - Rock The Boat Aaliyah - Rock The Boat
Aaliyah - Try Again Aaliyah - Try Again
Brandy - Afrodisiac Brandy - Afrodisiac
You get my drift!
Is there a quick way I can separate so they read as they should, i.e.
Name Artist
Rock The Boat Aaliyah
Try Again Aaliyah
Afrodisiac Brandy
(we are talking about 1000 tracks+ here)
Please advise, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Ok, let me rephrase...
I have around 1000 mp3s.
Unfortunately their ID3 tags have been set so they appear in the following format in iTunes...
In the 'Name' column:
Artist - Song Title
Artist - Song Title
Artist - Song Title
and in the 'Artist' column, the same:
Artist - Song Title
Artist - Song Title
Artist - Song Title
Is there any software I can use which enables me to edit the ID3 tags of these mp3s so that only the Song Title appears in iTunes 'Name' column, and only the Artist in iTunes 'Artist' column?
Hope this makes more sense...

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