Claim: The Natural Four was signed by ABC Records after their  first release, "I Thought You Were Mine" rose to number seven on the charts and sold 30,000 copies; their subsequent releases did not repeat the success of their initial recording.
Evidence: ABC Records saw the group's potential and picked them up. Their first release, "I Thought You Were Mine" sold 30,000 copies locally, after being regularly played on San Francisco soul/R&B radio station KSOL and on Oakland's KDIA where it rose to #7 on the chart. Their second release on Boola Boola, "Why Should We Stop Now" was re-released and, ABC then released "The Same Thing in Mind", a remake of their first hit "I Thought You Were Mine", and a cover of The Temptations' "Message From a Black Man", but none repeated the success of their initial recording.