Jim Beck
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Songwriter
Jim Beck was a Dallas country recording-studio owner and the co-author, with Lefty Frizzell, of the honky-tonk standard “If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time.” Frizzell’s 1950 Columbia recording reached No. 1 country and the song has since been recorded by Willie Nelson, George Strait, and many other country and Western-swing acts.
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- Co-wrote “If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time” with Lefty Frizzell.
- Owned the Jim Beck Recording Studios in Dallas, the leading Texas country studio of the early 1950s; the Frizzell single was cut there in 1950.
- Lefty Frizzell’s Columbia recording reached No. 1 country in 1950.
- The song has since been recorded by Willie Nelson, George Strait, Asleep at the Wheel, and many other country and Western-swing acts.
