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The man who lent his voice to AOL’s famous “You’ve Got Mail” notification died Tuesday.
Elwood Edwards was 74 years old when he died, his longtime employer WKYC announced Thursday. According to the Cleveland-based media outlet, he had been battling a “long illness.”
According to WKYC, Edwards, who is well known to AOL users, voiced his opinion on the online service provider’s “You’ve Got Mail” notice about 35 years ago.
Ukraine – 2021/03/15: In this illustrated photo, the AOL logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo illustration: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images) (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The newspaper described him as a “dear friend” and said he was “a graphics guru, camera operator and jack-of-all-trades” during his long tenure at WKYC.
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He once said in a video released by AOL that his voiceover job at AOL in 1989 came from his wife, Karen, who wrote “My Voice” for “the then-released AOL software.” “They volunteered their services to us,” he once explained.
The recording of “You’ve Got Mail” on AOL was done “on a cassette deck in my living room,” he said on the AOL video. He also said “Welcome,” “File Complete,” and “Goodbye” to the service.
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“It started as a test to see if it would catch on, and lo and behold, it really did in the mid-’90s. At one point, it was said that my voice was being heard more than 35 million times a day. ” he said in another video published by Great Big Story in 2016.
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Edwards’ voice became increasingly known among the general public with AOL. According to the AOL Help page, users of AOL Mail can hear “the iconic ‘You’ve Got Mail’ alert in its original audio” if certain settings are turned on.
His famous “You’ve Got Mail” work led to him joining a segment on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” in 2015.
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AOL’s origins date back to the 80’s.
