Hi sharrockrock,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. This article has information on importing songs from CD that may help:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Import songs from CDs
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12278
If the information in the article does not help, please reply with any additional information you can provide, such as the error message you are seeing, OS X version, etc.
Cheers,
- Ari