Song corrupted in iPod while plays fine in iTunes, but can't be re-imported

I have a play list of MP3 songs that I created from the same CD.  They have played for a long time in my iPod (probably iPod 3) until today when I wanted to edit them (change "Composer").  One song just won't change.  After inspection I discovered the "info' was grayed out.  When I tried to play it, it won't play.
When I played the same song in iTunes, it played fine.  I deleted the song from iPod (not sure what Apple was doing.  Did it delete the song, or just remove it from the list?), then re-import again.  Same problem.  When I look at it in iPod alone, the song disappeared.  Just to note that I can see it in iTunes when I connect my iPod to my PC.
I can assure you the song is fine (the ine in my PC), compatible with iPod (mp3, part of a group that all work), not such thing as read-only etc.  What's going on and how do I fix this?

Other similar cases:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/2864108#2864108 (very old post, has comments, but no help from Apple)
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11487143#11487143 (recent post, has no comment)

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