The Counts

Tommy Burk &
The Counts

Tommy Burk and the Counts were one of the very best local bands in Memphis in the early to mid 60s. Their hits included "Stormy Weather", "Cute", "True Love's Gone", "You'll Feel It Too", and "Just A Little Bit".

The picture below was taken in 1963 at the King Cotton Hotel in Downtown Memphis where they performed at the Prom for the Kingsbury class of 1963.
Tommy Burk became a professor at Christian Brothers University, and drummer
Thomas Boggs is now the CEO of Huey's (voted "Best Burger in Memphis") every year since 1984.

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Submitted by: Nina J. Stone : 25 Jul 2008, 00:30

I attended many sorority and frat dances that had the Counts as the music. Thomas Boggs has since passed away and Channel 10 did a great video on the Garage Bands in which Boggs was interviewed. There was another guy who they interviewed on the tape, Wayne Thompson who played guitar with the Counts. He went to CBHS, they played a lot at Little Flower CYO on Sunday nights. Ronnie Angel played too. Does anyone remember B. B. Cinningham, I went to school with him at Messick.

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