Question About Copying Tracks From a CD Into iTunes

Newbie here.
I currenly have about 700 songs on my Ipod Touch. (I put them on there from several old CD's I have of Napster tunes which I obtained when Napster was, well, you know . . . let's just say I donwloaded these tunes a long, long time ago.)
Anyway - so now I want to load a commercial CD onto my Ipod. "Spamalot," as a matter of fact. I put the CD into my computer, open up iTunes and press the magic button to import all of the tracks from the CD into iTunes. And it does it, very quickly, as a matter of fact.
The only problem is that all of the songs on the CD (25 of them) are scattered throughout the 700 songs already in my library. I have to spend way too much time hunting them down and schlepping them into my newly created Spamalot playlist.
Surely there is a better way to do this. I would think that I should be able to create a playlist and then load all of the songs from any CD directly into the playlist.
How do you do that?

What I would like to do is (1) create a playlist and then (2) copy or import tunes from a CD directly into the playlist I have just created.
From what I am hearing, I don't think that can be done. From what I am hearing here, you must first import the tunes into your iTunes general music library and THEN move them into a playlist.
no you can't do it directly, music must be imported into the library first, then copied into the playlist. i'm not sure why you would need to - sure it would save part of the work if you could do it all at the same time, but it's not exactly difficult to import, then create a playlist.
you could create the playlist before you import and add the tracks in as they are importing, but that's not much easier than creating it afterwards.
HOWEVER
Have you considered my 'Smart Playlist' suggestion? I think this will do what you want. Smart Playlists update automatically to coincide with any relevant changes in the itunes library. If you create a Smart Playlist with the album title, as tracks that have that album title are imported into itunes, they will automatically go into the Smart Playlist.

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