Song Name Error in iTunes

For some songs in iTunes, when added to the library the name of the song is, for example, Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down. iTunes is for some reason automatically adding "artist -" infront of the song name. This can be fixed by right clicking the song and pressing "Get Info" but when you have hundreds of songs that this is happening to it takes a bit of time.
Anyone know of a fix for this?

iTunes displays what info is on the songs ID3 tag (aka Get Info). So the only fix is to correct its tags.
If these songs are being imported from a CD into itunes, you need to rightclick and hit "Get Info" on the CDs name BEFORE Importing

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