Trouble importing selected songs

I'm having trouble importing a couple songs into iTunes. I can drag others downloaded from the same place into iTunes fine, but there's two that just don't want to stay.
This happened with the "old" version of iTunes and also this "new" one.
Is this just a bad file? Am I doing something wrong?
M.

Figured it out.

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i know the description may be a little bit too confusing
Mostly because you are not using any capital letters or paragraph returns and your post is difficult to read.

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