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Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL’s iconic greeting ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ dies at 74

Elwood Edwards, a behind-the-scenes graphics and camera operator at local Cleveland television station WKYC whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL’s email greeting, ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ has died, according to his former employer. He was 74.

Elwood Edwards, a behind-the-scenes graphics and camera operator at local Cleveland television station WKYC whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL’s email greeting, ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ has died, according to his former employer. Those four phrases – “Welcome,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Files done,” and “Goodbye” – would eventually be heard by hundreds of millions of people and become a staple part of the AOL experience. Edwards was born in New Bern, North Carolina, and graduated from high school in the Tar Heel state, he said in an interview on podcast “Silent Giants with Corey Cambridge.”

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