Career
After his discharge from the Army, Wray and his brothers Douglas and Vernon joined with their friends Shorty Horton and Dixie Neal to form 'Lucky Wray and the Lazy Pine Wranglers', later called 'Lucky Wray and the Palomino Ranch Hands'. They had been playing country music and Western swing for several years when they were hired as the house band on the daily live television show Milt Grant's House Party, a local Washington, D.C. version of American Bandstand. They made their first recordings in 1956 as 'Lucky Wray and the Palomino Ranch Hands' for Starday Records.
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