Help needed rearranging audio tracks

I am creating a video for the Christmas special at church. I have the music and vocals on split tracks. I converted them into mp3's and inserted them. I am using the tracks for the timing of the video sequences. Once done with the video I would like to remove the vocal tracks and replace them with the music tracks so I have audio on both channels. So basically, I want to delete the right channel and replace it with a copy of the left channel. Is this possible?
Message was edited by: Soundguy65

You should not work with MP3s in FCE. Use AIFF at the correct sample rate.
If these are stereo pairs, in the timeline select them and use Modify>Stereo Pair to toggle them to mono tracks. Hold the Option key so you can select the tracks separately. Select the vocal track and delete it. You don't need to duplicate the remaining track, simply center the audio with Modify>Audio>Pan Center.

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