If there’s one genre that rivals country music for the most quintessentially American art form, it’s jazz. And the genres share a lot more common ground than you might think.

“Right or Wrong,” written in 1921 by Arthur Sizemore, Paul Biese, and Haven Gillespie, is a classic little jazz number that Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys transformed in to a country song.

“All of Me,” composed in 1931 by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons, is about as “standard” as a jazz standard can get. Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Count Basie’s Orchestra, and Frank Sinatra all recorded takes on the tune, Willie Nelson's inclusion of "All of Me" on his 1978 album Stardust. Nelson’s version made number 3 on the hot country charts.

Known as one of the founding fathers of country music, Jimmie Rodgers’s “Blue Yodel” series, sentimental ballads, and tales of riding the rails inspired every generation of country and bluegrass.

And while “Standing on the Corner” isn’t exactly a jazz standard in its own right, the recording is remarkable for its collaboration between one of the founding fathers of country and one of the founding fathers of jazz, Louis Armstrong.

It wasn’t necessarily a hit, but got a second life when Armstrong reprised the song in a performance with Johnny Cash on The Johnny Cash Show in 1970.

The song has also been selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.

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