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Shari Lewis with Lamb Chop & Charlie Horse

Updated May 27, 2025
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Shari Lewis with Lamb Chop & Charlie Horse
Puppeteer Shari Lewis with her puppets Lamb Chop & Charlie Horse taken in 1960.
Date & Place: in New York, New York United States
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Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, and the beloved Shari Lewis - do you remember them?

Shari Lewis was a big presence in children's television- especially in the 1960s - yet she was so much more to so many. Her talents and family history are fascinating . . . her father was New York City's "official magician"and a professor at Yeshiva University. Read about her life & leave a memory
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05/24/2022
Absolutely loved her and still have my puppets.
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05/24/2022
🎶This is the song that has no end, it just goes on and on my friends🎶......I was just a kid when I saw her the first time on 'Ed Sullivan'....
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05/24/2022
Esther Evans you had to have been a baby!
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05/24/2022
Pam Evans 9 or 10?? We didn't have a TV until I was 9.....
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05/24/2022
Esther Evans maybe she was on longer than I thought because I think I was watching her when I was five, and you're five years younger than I am. And yes we had a TV when I was five because somebody left my dad $500 and that's what he spent it on.
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05/24/2022
Pam Evans She was really young when she started...probably only about 20?? ( I'm off to google!!)
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05/24/2022
Esther Evans I guess I was older than I thought when I saw her, but I could have sworn it was when we lived in San Pedro, but according to Wikipedia, fam was already living in El Monte.
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05/24/2022
Pam Evans She started in 1952 at the ripe old age of 19.....LOL (born in 1933)
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05/24/2022
I loved Shari Lewis, I had a lamb chop puppet.
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05/24/2022
TV was so much more wholesome when I started watching in 1950! The 50's were the Golden Age of TV!
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05/24/2022
I loved Shari Lewis and her hand puppets.
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05/24/2022
❤️
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05/24/2022
Omg yes. I still have lamb chop
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05/24/2022
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05/24/2022
Who could forget the song that never ends?
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05/24/2022
I sure do.
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05/24/2022
Yes!
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05/24/2022
I remember Shari well..
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05/24/2022
Loved her and lamb chop her beautiful voice was almost mermandic very comforting to children
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05/24/2022
Loved her & the show & lambchop
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05/24/2022
I certainly remember Shari Lewis and Lambchop.
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05/24/2022
Shari Dearmon.. an awesome read.
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05/24/2022
Debra Addison I guess you know that's where my name came from. I think daddy had a crush oh her. Lol
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05/25/2022
Lambchop was the sweetest thing!!
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05/25/2022
Box 489 box 489 Radio city station...New York 19 New York 19 New York........only those whose children watched will know what this means....
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05/25/2022
Yesido
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05/25/2022
I saw her at a restaurant in the mountain town of Idyllwild, California.
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05/26/2022
Oh, I loved that show! It came on after school…
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05/26/2022
Shari Lewis was a dear friend. I would visit her home in Beverly Hills to practice Transendental Meditation.
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05/28/2022
Yes loved lamb chop
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05/28/2022
Of course!
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05/28/2022
Delightful.
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05/31/2022
Yes I do
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05/31/2022
Yes I do
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Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis is best remembered as a ventriloquist, puppeteer & children's entertainer. Her sock puppet Lamb Chop is loved by many. She was born in the Bronx, New York, as Sonia Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz to parents Ann Ritz (1908 - 1994) and Abraham Hurwitz (1906 - 1981). She had one sister. Abraham was born in Lithuania and Ann was born in Manhattan, New York. Entering the world of entertainment might have been inherited from her father Abraham since he was named New York City's "official magician" by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia during the Great Depression. Shari married Stan Lipschitz or Lewis in 1953 and they divorced in 1957. She married again, to Jeremy Phillip Tarcher, in 1958 and they were married until her passing in 1998. She had one daughter named Mallory Tarcher who legally changed her last name to Lewis in the year 2000 and took over her mother's work with Lamb Chop. Shari entertained millions and won her first puppetry prize on the CBS tv series Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1952. NBC gave Shari her first network program called 'The Shari Lewis Show' which introduced the world to Lamb Chop and debuted on October 1st, 1960. Fun fact: this tv program is what replaced the famous 'The Howdy Doody Show". See Shari Lewis: Professions.
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