PicKleTEL parodies volume 2 ~ by Rachael Chatoor of Pickelball ARTwear

 

                                               Hope you have fun with this!! :) Cheers, Rachael. 

Explainer and introduction video, who is Pickleball ARTwear? (Rachael Chatoor, pickleball parody creator for PicKleTEL records)

 Here is a little last minute shot of the products before I closed my store. I still have the designs for all of these so they can enter the market place again when I decide I have the right ducks in a row. :)  (Or if someone wants to buy them) Also....more about everything here:  Pickleball ARTwear explainer site

Karen who hosts Pretty Pickleballers (women who love pickleball) asked me to do a live video intro for their small biz Saturday. I don’t know that I can do it live, between all my parody videos and the art, and the book… so I made this video for them and I’m sharing it here because it does explain all my madness! 🤭👍🏻😅❤️. Thanks for being here. Rachael Chatoor of Pickleball ARTwear #pickleball #pickletel #pickleballartwear

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As you may have been following I have had my own history with a  company. 
You see I recently noticed their new website and rebrand included my own older brand name: 

Pickleball Artwear.

Understand that back in 2020-21 when I started this art journey I googled the crap out of the words Pickleball Artwear and it was nowhere and it has been nowhere besides me since then except and  until these people showed up and began using it. 

I also wrote to them before posting publicly, and let them know they were using my brand name and that while I had just closed my own shopify store I was still using it and had published books and clothing with that brand name on it, and still was doing so.  

In a really small space such as pickleball and seeing as they had gone all the way through Nationals introducing their brand while not using my name but just their own, I thought they could easily pivot and change it back up, I mean it's a small pickleball world and clearly I've been using it, so why not? 

But no. My comments got deleted or ignored and eventually, the point just blatantly missed. 

Somehow my reply got turned into a reel on my own Instagram page and it turned out so perfectly with the image that it was attached itself to, I left it up. The power of the response was just stunning to me. 

How can anyone be unsure of the problem here? 

This is a small, small business. I am a small time artist, I've done nothing but support other small biz and women and try to make people smile and laugh with art and music. 

Even if they didn't know, once they did... they ghosted me and just kept going or said the above, that they don't see the problem. 



My thoughts are simple really and inspired my latest t-shirt design and meme. (you can get this image on a shirt, without the words)  See design here

People who are with me, I appreciate you, see you and I love you. 
The world starts to heal when we speak up about wrongs we see, rather than ignore them. 

I'll be happy to take every bit of my ugly opinion down as soon as they stop being facts (and/or using my name). 

Rachael

Pickleball ART on gift items and clothing, now available in my store on Tee Public! NEW Pickleball ARTwear designs

Now at Tee Public, you can even search for me because my Pickleball ARTwear is now part of the Artisan program there. What is pickleball art? Instead of paint or brush strokes I use digital images of pickleball paddles and pickleballs to create my images. So it's an image within an image. Sometimes it's even an image within an image within an image. (say that fast three times)

Find it here:  My Pickleball ARTwear by Rachael Chatoor store!

is this rude?? 😝  I mean it's supposed to be cute and funny....

I do have a version of the pickleball fish art without the words if you prefer it. Message me for info. 

 

All these images and more can be found on mugs, stickers, towels, hoodies, etc.... great gift items for pickleballers with lots of big loves! 

PicKleTEL pickleball parodies VOLUME 2

If you are here you may have seen the short version video of PicKleTEL Volume 2 going around somewhere.

Here is the longer version to give you more of a taste of the tunes and following in the posts on my blog (just scroll back a few posts), you will find the full versions posted:

Ever since I started making pickleball parody REELs and short videos I've envisioned the K-Tel format  as a teaser video. It's how I grew up listening to music and I vividly recall watching the K-Tel commercials. My allowance money was just enough to buy a K-Tel album from the swap meet every once in a while.  I guess the nostalgia never left me and I still get the feels over it. Volume 1 was a pile of fun and I've just gotten deeper into pickleball and made more REELs since so here we are with Volume 2. I don't see an end. 

If I had more skill and videography skills and more than an iphone I'd do a better job of it all but I think  I get the point across so  I'm sticking with my role as creator.  Make the rough drafts up and share them out.  When things need a polish there is a time and place and people who love to do all that. 

Artists parodied in this video are as follows: 

Straight Down the Line:   Inspired by Neil Diamond's: Sweet Caroline

Pickleball Stars:  Inspired by Nickleback's: Rockstar

I Dinked the ball:   Inspired by Katy Perry's: I kissed a Girl 

Don't need your Advice:  Inspired by Almost Paradise made famous by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson

Aced it!~   Inspired by Miley Cyrus Jaded

Pickleball      Inspired by John Cougar Mellencamp's small town

Pickleballin:  Inspired by The Beach Boys   Surfin Safari! 

MY GRATITUDE  For all the great pros and friends who participate with me. Each are credited on their videos. :)  Also a final mega shout out to Lee Whitwell @LadyGibraltar on Instagram my pickleball parody pal! 
  PS the latest..... 

See ya soon pickleballers!

Pickleball Party, sing-along to pickleball parodies~!

My whole mission from the get go was to get people singing along together. It always has been. Even when I was in a touring band I would hold the microphone out to the audience to hear them sing. It's my favorite part of being a musician, hearing you. 

Me onstage  as Agnetha in Arrival Canada's tribute to Abba....and the awesome singers who helped....

These last few months my brain has been filling with pickleball songs and images I need to create, but  instead of doing so I've been spending every blipping moment figuring out the Shopify  platform.

It felt like work. So I jumped ship. Well I jumped off the expensive superliner and onto little moterboat. I understand that boat much better and have no need to cross oceans anyhow so that ticket was just too expensive. 
 

The whole reason I started the Shopify is because my previous  ARTist shops were not related solely to me and so when I sent customers to my store they could easily get lost on the site (since it could direct  them to other artists). That's tough when you spend a lot of time catching peoples attention. 

So I thought if I controlled the store, then at least I wouldn't lose people. 
What I didn't anticipate was the enormous cost of involving a platform such as Shopify as well as all the other pieces of the puzzle which  eat up every penny you might make. 

If a shop owner gets lucky and needs a web developers help to deal with expanding, well  you now have to pay what feels like lawyers hourly rates to get things done, and finding someone you trust to do that in a faceless internet world, is not easy. 

So just as I was about to start ramping up advertising I pushed the big red button instead of the green one. 

You see as all this was happening the ARTist platforms began streamlining so that ARTists wouldn't lose their customers so easily, they gave us a shop, not just a spot in their shop. Smart. 

SO, my problem was, I was ahead of the curve and started solving my problem a just a bit too early. It took the larger platforms a bit of time to reach my needs. 

And I realized, since  they do now, just as I was getting more and more bills to my store, my old platform was offering to do it, right. SO I thought, why am I not making use of it? And so I dove into this place ARTIST SHOP



The result is I have time to do more of the things I love, including taking my Pickleball Parody songs out on the road. This Christmas season for any pickleball event I went to I brought my little guitar and a handful of parody lyric sheets. (Taken from my Pickleball Sing - Along book). and PS I realize I need to make a Sing Along book 2 because I have a whole paddle bag full of NEW tunes that are not in book one, so stand by for those..... but I digress....... on with the show.....

A few of these people had seen my videos but not even close to all of them....so this was the first time that MOST of these people had seen or heard any  of my songs. But with my handy lyric sheets, it was easy to get them singing.........so easy.........

 

How much fun will this be for any pickleball event?  Pickleball dinner, tournament, festival or getaway? 

I'm your Pickleball Parody girl, let me know if you would like to know how I can help you do this! :) 

Rachael! 

Is this my favorite Pickleball Parody?

 It's hard to pick a favorite but I do have a long list to choose from, I'm almost ready to write my next Pickleball SING along book in fact. 

The latest is a tune I've had in my head for well over a year but I just haven't gotten around to finishing the parody or making a track, until I blew up my shopify store so I could focus on just being a musician and artist rather than a web developer. (which is what you seem to have to be to have a shopify store)


Lee and I had just finished our Christmas parody and I had a few minutes to chew on the idea and well, without any further ado I should just let you play it! 

Get your singing voice out....this one you WILL want to learn and sing along to! 


Inspired by the song Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. 

Santa Baby, Pickleball Carol - Featuring Lee Whitwell and Rachael Chatoor

 Just sharing a little holiday ditty we cooked up!  

Merry Christmas from PickleTEL records! 

Merry Christmas to all my wonderful Pickleball ARTwear  supporters!! (here are just some of your awesome photos, you'll find the rest on facebook)  I LOVE you!!