Debian Programming :: Return How Many Items Occurs In List (Python)

I going through the Python course on Codeacademy. I have some trouble understanding what I'm doing wrong. This is my code below:

Code: Select alldef count(sequence, item):
    total = 0
    for x in sequence:
        return x
        if x in sequence:
            total += 1
    return total
print count([1,2,1,1], 1 )

The code gives me an error: "Oops, try again. Your function fails on count([1],7). It returns 1 when it should return 0."

It should be outputting 3 because 1 occurs 3 times in the list.