Replacing Audio Track on iMovie 10.0.6 on Yosemite

I have a movie from a school concert (from a DSLR) that I have imported into iMove. I simply want to replace the iMove audio track with the TASCAM digital audio track that I recorded separately. In researching this on the web and here on the discussion posts it appears that I need to "detach audio" from the movie in iMove and then (somehow) import my replacement.wav file.
The PROBLEM is that the "Modify --> Detach Audio" menu item is greyed out - in fact most of the "Join Clips", "Split Clip", etc. menu items are greyed out.
How do I use these menus to replace the audio track in my iMovie clip?
Right now iMovie is just a "Quicktime Player" unless I can get some of this functionality out of "menu greyed out space" and into "useable function space".
Looking for some basic guidance.
Thanks

Looks like I was trying to detach the audio from the movie clip in the media library.......so iMovie is now much more than a Quicktime player!!! After selecting the movie clip in the movie project I was able to:
detach the audio from the movie using the Modify menu selection
drag and drop my replacement.wav file onto the "1/8th notes icon" as an audio track
since the movie and the .wav file both had the same audio, amazingly it looks like iMovie may correlated the audio tracks and lined my replacement.wav file up with the beginning of the clip (or I started the DSLR and TASCAM at exactly the same time which is statistically possible but not likely).
Excellent Job Apple - iMove works great.

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