Moving imported songs to playlists - Am I missing a step??

After importing a CD I want to move the songs to a playlist,
"Beatles" "Jazz", etc.
There must be a better way as now I drag a song one at at time to the playlist which is tedious and easy to miss a song.
Is there a way to select a block of songs and drag the block to the playlist?
Craig

thx much. will give it a try tonite. there must be place where all the key functions are explained. I did not find it in the iTunes help section.
Where do people find out what all the keys can do???
thx - Craig

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