Many of the crossBeaTs early songs were taken from "Western Style Songs" published by "Singspiration". Examples would be:

Go Tell it on the Mountain
Is He Satisfied?
My God is Real
The Answer Man
What a friend we have in Jesus
Have You Walked with the Lord Today?
He Goes Before You (He Knows the Way)
Lord keep Your hand on me
Someone to Tell My Troubles to
Above All Else (The World Needs Jesus)
My Yielded Heart
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

Only later, towards the end of 1963, as the Beatles showed it was possible, did the group start writing their own.