They won local acclaim as an instrumental group and as a backing ensemble for visiting solo acts after their formation in 1968.
Working with producer Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, they released the instrumental single "Jan, Jan" on Detroit's Moira Records that year, which narrowly missed hitting the US R&B charts that winter.
Signing with Westbound Records that year, the group changed their name simply to The Counts.
Shortchanged by Westbound Records in favor of The Ohio Players and Funkadelic, many of the band's original members left, and the band moved to Atlanta, Georgia, signing with Michael Thevis' Aware Records, where they released their final LPs Love Sign and Funk Pump before the group called it quits in 1976.
[6][7] Just before reuniting in 2009, Mose Davis played jazz piano around Atlanta with the Mose Davis Trio, Leroy Emmanuel played in a Canadian funk band called the LMT Connection and Demo Cates operated out of Canada, where he received two Juno Award nominations for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year and appeared as an actor in TV and movies.