Music display in iTunes, but not iPhone

I've had this phone a while now and never had this problem:
I dragged/dropped music to the phone (manually managed) and the music shows up "on the phone" while iTunes is open. It has an artist and album name is also not part of compilation.
The music won't display on the phone once I disconnect iTunes. I can even PLAY the music directly from the phone through iTunes - so it's on there somewhere....
I am NOT syncing over wi-fi and wi-fi is disabled....
mmmh....when i search by song title it comes up - and i can play it - along with a display the album art.
BUT the artist/album appear as "unknown" even though in iTunes they are named and display as such....
iPhone 4 on Verizon running iOS5.

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