Multiple Listings in iTunes

Help. Quite a lot of stuff I've downloaded (and purchased) has each song showing up about 4-5 times in iTunes. Anyone know how to clean this up please? It's driving me nuts. When I click on a song it either tells me it can't find it or I have to listen to a son 4-5 times. Augh
Thanks

Thanks, Ed. But, that still leaves the problem of having three, or sometimes even four, copies of a single song (each number Song A 1, Song A, 2, Song A 3, etc.) They are in the AAX a/k/a/ m4a format. I tried deleting all but one of each title, but when I went back in to view my itunes library, there were exclamation points next to all the songs I had deleted extra copies of. When I tried to open them, I was told they didn't exist. Very frustrating!!!

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